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Learning VMware vRealize Automation

By : SRIRAM RAJENDRAN, Sriram Rajendran
Book Image

Learning VMware vRealize Automation

By: SRIRAM RAJENDRAN, Sriram Rajendran

Overview of this book

With the growing interest in Software Defined Data Centers (SDDC), vRealize Automation offers data center users an organized service catalog and governance for administrators. This way, end users gain autonomy while the IT department stays in control, making sure security and compliance requirements are met. Learning what each component does and how they dovetail with each other will bolster your understanding of vRealize Automation. The book starts off with an introduction to the distributed architecture that has been tested and installed in large scale deployments. Implementing and configuring distributed architecture with custom certificates is unarguably a demanding task, and it will be covered next. After this, we will progress with the installation. A vRealize Automation blueprint can be prepared in multiple ways; we will focus solely on vSphere endpoint blueprint. After this, we will discuss the high availability configuration via NSX loadbalancer for vRealize Orchestrator. Finally, we end with Advanced Service Designer, which provides service architects with the ability to create advanced services and publish them as catalog items.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Learning VMware vRealize Automation
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Installing the standby Manager Service and the DEM Orchestrator node


We will now see how to install the standby manager and DEM Orchestrator node.

Prerequisites

Here are the prerequisites for the installation:

  • Update the pools configuration in NSX load balancer for MGR

    • Check if you receive the response BasicHttpBinding_VMPSProxyAgent by accessing the health monitor page for Manager Service node – https://MGR.PKCT.LOCAL/VMPS2

  • To prepare the virtual machine for IaaS node installation follow the instructions from Chapter 2, Distributed Installation Using Custom Certificates under IaaS prerequisites and virtual machine preparation topic

  • From Chapter 2, Distributed Installation Using Custom Certificates follow the instructions under Installing PFX certificate to IIS web server

NSX load balancer configurations for IaaS MGR

Update the existing pool configuration by adding the second MGR node; no other changes are required.

Pool configuration

Update the existing configuration to reflect the following changes...