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Maintain a healthy environment is part of any IT Administrator’s duty, sometimes is hard to assess several components that might compound a solution, would it not be nice to have a tool that looks at these solutions and provides you a health report ?
Well, that’s what vRealize Production Test is all about.
Obs: make sure you change to your version file accordingly
When running for the first time you need to accept the EULA
-On the left menu, you should select each product you wanna test and fill out its information;
-Fill out the field appropriately and Save;
It will create an XML file with the information you just provide
- To start checking your environment run:
java –jar vrealize-productiontest-1.7.0.jar run --oobList VRA
Once it’s done, there will be a html-reports folder on the source where you ran the script, inside that, open the VRPTR.html file
The report shows a nice summary of findings, but also a detailed section, where you can learn what has been found and the details on how to fix that.
If you want to learn more about the tool, there’s a detailed guide as well.
OBS: don’t be alarmed about the number of issues on my environment, I intentionally gave some bad hostnames and credentials to generate more errors ; )