Showing posts with label vRA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vRA. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 7, 2020

vRealize Automation 8 - Part2 - Initial configuration using quickstart

In this article, I will briefly explain how to set up your on-prem SDDC infrastructure for provisioning with vRA 8.0 using quickstart wizard. Follow my previous blog post vRA 8.0 - Part1 for the complete installation procedure. After a successful deployment, you can access the vRA Cloud Services Console.

Click Launch Quickstart.


Provide vCenter server details and click Validate.


Click Accept.


Select the datacenter to allow provisioning and click Create and go to next step.


Select the NSX version if you have it configured in your environment. In my case, I don't have NSX. So select None and click Create and go to next step.


Provide the basic configuration details like Datacenter, Template, Datastore, and Network. Quickstart will use this info to create your first blueprint and releases it to the catalog. This can be used for your first deployment. Here I've selected a centos7 template. 

Click Next step.


Select governance policies. I am using the defaults. Click Next step.


Review summary and click Run quickstart.

Note that here I did not select to "Automatically deploy my template when quickstart completed". In this case, a blueprint will be created and releases it to the catalog. You can request the catalog item to deploy it.


Once all the steps are completed, click Close.


At this point, a blueprint will be created under the quickstart project. And it can be seen under Cloud Assembly > Blueprints.

This blueprint is available as a catalog item. It can be seen under Service Broker > Catalog Items.

Hope it was useful. Cheers!

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Monday, December 16, 2019

vRealize Automation 8 - Part1 - Installation

Background


  • vRealize Automation (vRA) has two consumption models now:
    • vRA on-prem
    • vRA cloud (SAAS offering)
  • From vRA 8.0 onwards the same code being used in vRA cloud is taken and packaged together for on-prem use.
  • vRA 8.0 is focused on greenfield environments (new vRA deployments).
  • If you want to upgrade from vRA 7.x VMware recommends waiting until vRA 8.x as it will have a migration tool that helps the upgrade process. 

Before starting the installation process, I strongly recommend you to go through the below documentation links.


Installation


Download the installer ISO file and mount it. If you are running it from a Windows machine, browse to win32 folder and run installer.exe file. During the installation process first LCM VM will be deployed and it is responsible for deploying IDM and vRA VMs.

Note: Make sure DNS entries for LCM, IDM, and vRA are present and resolvable.

Click install.


Click next.


Accept EULA.


Provide vCenter details.


Accept.


Select a datacenter location.


Select a compute cluster.


Select a datastore.


Provide network configuration details.


Set password.


Provide LCM config details.


Provide IDM config details.


Provide vRA config details.


Review summary.


Click submit to start the installation process.


Once the installation is successful you will get the following URLs to navigate to vRSLCM and vRA UI.


Login to LCM.



Login to vRA.


Provide creds.


There you go! vRA 8.0 is successfully deployed.


Hope it was useful. Cheers!

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