Friday, April 24, 2015
vRealize Automation missing day-2 activities
If you are
working with Advanced Service Design (ASD) to enable Day-2 activities you will
realized they are missing on vRealize Automation 6.2.
Marcadores:
ASD,
VMWARE,
vRA,
vRealize Automation,
workflow
Thursday, April 9, 2015
vRealize Automation Branding
One small change on
vRealize Automation 6.2 is it’s branding name, prior version still be
referenced as vCloud Automation Center.
Wait a few minutes,
clear your browser’s cache and voilà….
Files and folder
structure still have vcac reference, but don’t worry about it now, we are
taking baby steps here.
Why is that important
after all?
Is not the small
details that make all the difference ?!?!
So, on new systems
you will realize that the login page has been updated with the new branding
name.
In the other hand, systems that were
upgraded from version 6.1 to version 6.2 still have the old branding name.
It’s because there’s
an extra step on the upgrade procedure that needs to be taken care of.
- Login to vRA
Appliance Management console;
https://vRA-App:5480
- Click vRA Settings and then SSO tab;
- Fill the SSO Admin
User with Administrator and type the password;
- Select Apply Branding ;
- Click Save Settings and it’s done.
Thursday, April 2, 2015
VMware Software Manager
Is It getting harder and harder to keep track of all VMware’s Product Launches, upgrades, hotfixes and new releases these days, right ?
Luckily VMware launched
a new program called VMware Software Manager, that can help you track which is
the most recent release of it’s products and more, download them to your
compute while checking the integrity of them, nice…. Even nicer is that it’s
free.
It does not have a
lot of pre-requisites, just a Windows 64bit O.S. version (yes, this first
release is just Windows aware). You can check all the details on the User's Guide.
Talking abou the
installation, it’s pretty simple, so simple that wont cover here, the only
thing that mention to comment is that during installation it will ask you for
the depot location, that’s where your downloads will be copied to.
Don’t worry, it's possible to change the depot location later !!!
On the taskbar
there’s an icon for Software Manager
- Right Click on it and
select, Settings and then Set Download Location
To start with you
will need to login with your MyVMware Account
Then, you can browser
to the available products.
Another caveat here,
not all products are available, they will be added soon, so far we do have.
VMware vCloud Suite –
6.0, 5.8 and 5.5
VMware vSphere with Operations Manager – 6.0 and 5.5
VMware vSphere – 6.0,
5.5 and 5.1
Once you find the one
you need just hit the download button and go grab a cup of coffee.
Something to mention
is that the support of Software Manager is handle by the community on this
initial phase.
If you have a
problem, drop us a question, I’m sure you will be answered before this cup of
coffee get cold ; )
Go ahead, download
VMware Software Manager and give it a try.
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Who am I

- Eduardo Meirelles da Rocha
- I’m an IT specialist with over 15 years of experience, working from IT infrastructure to management products, troubleshooting and project management skills from medium to large environments. Nowadays I'm working for VMware as a Consulting Architect, helping customers to embrace the Cloud Era and make them successfully on their journey. Despite the fact I'm a VMware employee these postings reflect my own opinion and do not represents VMware's position, strategies or opinions. Reach me at @dumeirell
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