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Adding Additional vCenter Instances to vRealize Automation
vRealize Automation (vRA), formerly vCloud Automation Center, has the ability to have multiple vCenters as endpoints. This is cool because if you need to do true multi-tenancy and a tenant has security...
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Automating Puppet Master Certificate Signing and vRealize Automation
A big part of my job at Varrow is evaluating new technology related to cloudy things and determine if/where said technology might fit into our overall cloud strategy. From there it’s all about taking...
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I can HaaS…Hadoop as a Service Setup
There seems to be a lot of focus today around XaaS (anything as a service). There is also lots of talk about big data, typically Hadoop, and being able to automate the Hadoop lifecycle. We’ve had a...
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Blueprints as Code in vRealize Automation 7 Part 1 – Exporting Blueprints
I’ve been doing some work recently with vRealize Autmation 7 and exploring options of how to export blueprints so that they may be stored in a source control system, such as Github. In doing so I...
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Building Your Own Voice Activated Skynet with Amazon Web Services
Hey all, Here are a couple of videos from this year’s Sirius Madness event where @virtualtacit and I demonstrated using Amazon Web Services and Alexa (Amazon Echo) to flip a Raspberry Pi controlled...
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vRealize Automation 7 – Custom Email Template XaaS Cleanup
A customer recently contacted me to help resolve a few issues with vRA 7’s custom email templates. Here are some of the changes I had to make. Templates have been updated from 6.2. Grab the new...
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Blueprints as Code in vRealize Automation 7 Part 2 – Adding Blueprints to...
Welcome to part 2 of this 3-part series on blueprints as code in vRealize Automation 7 (vRA 7). In part 1, we walked through how to export blueprints from vRA 7. In this post we’ll discuss putting...
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