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How to vote for Ryan Kelly’s VMworld Sessions
Cool, you got this far. Now your just minutes away from helping me with my goal of presenting at VMworld. 1. Open the following link and either login or register (Note: you just need to register for...
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Where is the installable vRO client on vRA 7 appliance?
So you have downlaoded and installed the vRealize Automation 7 Appliance and now you want to start to work on some vRealize Orchestrator workflows. While you could just use the Java Client, there is...
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How to install and configure Chef Plugin for vRealize Orchestrator
In this guide I will walk you through installing and configuring the new Chef Plugin for vRealize Orchestrator. This allows vRO to automate common tasks in Chef as well as integrate with cloud...
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What’s new in vRealize Automation 7.1
Today, VMware released the latest version of vRealize Automation 7.1. Here are some of the highlights I found to be really great improvements, also some of the new features in beta. Download vRealize...
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How to integrate Windows DNS with vRA 7.x
This guide will show you how to setup vRealize Automation 7.x to automatically create a static host A record and a reverse look up pointer in your Windows based DNS. This is most often needed to be...
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vRA7 to vRO Extensibility Magic Secrets Revealed Part 1
In this three part guide I will show you how to extend vRealize Automation 7 to use vRealize Orcestrator workflows as part of the provisioning process. This could be used for something as simple as...
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vRA7 to vRO Extensibility Magic Secrets Revealed Part 3
Let’s tie it all together now and test this integration. In Part 1 you learned about vRA 7 to vRO architecture and how we pass data. In Part 2 we created a workflow in vRO that will recieve custom...
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Puppet vRO Plugin 1.0 to 2.0 upgrade gotcha
I have been working with the new Puppet Plugin in my lab and I found the new workflows failing as they were referencing modules in the old 1.0 plugin. The workflows throw an error like Cannot find...
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Puppet Plugin 2.0 for vRO agent install workflow gotcha
If you are trying to use the new Puppet Plugin 2.0 for vRealize Automation workflows and you get an error when deploying a blueprint it is most likely The agent packages needed to support your...
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How to integrate vRealize Automation with the Puppet Plugin 2.0
The Puppet Plugin 2.0 for vRealize Automation is here so let’s put it to good use by integrating it with vRealize Automation Blueprints! Pre-Reqs: Puppet Plugin Installed and Configured. See my...
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