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How to manage VRA 8 & vRLCM using Google assistant (okGoogle)

This is one of the project which I had in my To Do list and recently I managed to complete it . Here is the Backhand flow ,how the communication works in backhand . While sending the traffic from OkGoogle to VRA. While sending the traffic from OkGoogle to vRLCM. Once operation is performed in VRA and send the traffic back to Google Assistant. Once operation is performed in vRLCM and send the…

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#Google Assistant #Jarvis #okGoogle #Veronica

How to provide VM lease date during the submission of VM build in VRA8 using ABX flow

Recently I was on working on scenario where we want to provide the lease date of VM at the time of submission. It is well known feature in 7.x which we get . In VRA 8.x we can play with lease only with Day 2 actions. With the help of extensibility you can provide the lease time during submission and use extensibility to trigger abx flow/ workflow as day 2. The flow looks like below . Here is…

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#ABX flow #ABX Python Acion #Python

How to use Compute allocation & Network configure subscription to change the IP address and Rename of VM in VRA 8

As we talk about the automation in VM provisioning , One of the crucial step is to get the IP address from external source.Recently I was working on used case where we want to provide the IP addresses at the time of submitting the provisioning. There are multiple ways to do it in VRA and VRO . I am using VRA ABX Python action to achieve it. Used Case: I want to submit more than one machine at…

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#ABX Python Acion #Compute Allocation #Network Configure #Rename_VM #Static IP

How to automate vm snapshot creation using csv and schedule automatic deletion of the snapshot using VRO 8

Snapshot is one of the great feature which we have in vSphere and which can be used like backup whenever we want to perform any change in Virtual Machine.There are multiple ways to take the snapshot for VM using multiple products/Language.We can use vSphere GUI or Rest APIs or pyvmomi or PowerCli . Also as precaution when take snapshot , it is recommended to delete the snapshot after x amount of…

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#PowerCli Action #Schedule #Snapshot

How to utilize VRO PowerCli actions to make the VRA custom form dynamics for cluster, network and Folder in vRealize Automation 8

Recently I was working on used case where we need to make the custom form dynamics in VRA 8 . Dynamic custom forms ease the job because we do not need to hard code everything . There are multiple ways to do this like you can use JavaScript which is being used in vro from long time or You can use Python and Utilize Rest API calls , Python support is added in VRA 8 design along with PowerCli. I…

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#Custom form #PowerCli Action

How to remove machine from VRA which are stuck in provisioning status in VRA8

Past I have written article where I showed how to remove the deployment from VRA if those are stuck here .Recently I have come across the situation where we do not have deployment but machines are stuck Under Machine TAB in VRA.This is what we see below is expected Here is the screenshot where you see stuck in provisioning Download To remove those machines which are stuck ,We can utilize the…

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#delete VM #Python #RestApi #Stuck VM

How to rename the VM during the Deployment in VRA/VRO7.6(vRealize Automation 7.x)

Often there are situations where we want to automate the name generation of the VMs and There are multiple ways to do that in VRA.We can use Machine Prefix feature which is inbuilt in VRA . we can navigate to Portal by belowInfrastructure => Compute Resources => Machine Prefixes Another way is to use the VRO , As we all know we can Integrate anything in VRO , all we need is plugin. Another used…

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#Javascript #Rename_VM

How to delete deployment in VRA 8 using Python(API)

Often there are situation where deployment will get stuck in progress or We lost control to manage the deployment using GUI. In those situation we can utilize the APIs and get the task done.But for VRA8 taking the bearer token is bit tedious task as we need to obtain 2 different token then make it as bearer token. To make it easier I have created Python Module where you just need to provide the…

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How to upgrade vRealize LifeCycle Manager(vRLCM), VMware Identity Manager(VIDM) and vRealize Automation(VRA) to 8.3 step by step.

Starting with vRLCM upgrade it is pretty simple , I am using offline mode because I do not have internet to my lab , You can use myvmware account .For offline mode we need to download the upgrade ISO From myvmware site. Below is the screenshot of correct file. Once we have downloaded the ISO , we need to attach the ISO to vRLCM VM. I am assuming copy the file to the datasstore is known to…

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How to manage vRealize Life Cycle Manager(VRLCM 8.2) using Python

Life cycle manager is awesome tool and their APIs are easy to use and understand .I have tried almost 30+ api and I feel it is good and Handy way to check the details and perform basic operation using python and API Continue reading

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#API #LCM #Life Cyle Manager #Python

How to utilize the Yaml and Custom form & add Multiple disks during provisioning in VRA8.X

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#Add-Disk #Custom form

How to update the network profile in VRA 7.X using Rest API -External Profile

Recently I was working on issue where we want to update the network ranges of specific network profile.

Unfortunately I was having difficulty because it was greyed out as below screenshot.

I also tried to implement the KB68142 , which does the work 90% , But unfortunately it did not work for me , But no worries , VMware has given API for almost every piece of work in VRA .

So now…

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#External-Profile #Network-Profile

How to install the Python on windows 10

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#Installation #Python

How to list the Catalog Item in VRA 7.6 using Rest API in Python 3.8

Often in VRA environment we have multiple catalog Items where we want to Filter on basis of Service or On basis of the name of CatalogItem . It is an easy task using GUI as well , But some of us want to achieve using Rest API and get the required details which would help in triggering the build using API.

I have decided not to go with multiple class and I have added this to my VRA Master…

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#List-Catalog #Rest API

How to create the tenant in VRA 7.6/X using Rest API in Python 3.8

Previously we created the individual function to login into VRA tenant and list all the tenant. If you have not seen the previous post you can Click here

As we know it can become tedious task If we have to save multiple python functions for different functionality . To avoid that I have come with VraClass which will have all the methods so far i have developed and I will keep on adding into it…

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#create Tenant #Python #Rest API

SQL function to check the Data Collection status for specific cluster in VRA 7.X

Often there are situation where data collection will get stuck and I felt very hard to check different tables in Database to check what is the current value and how can we compare for working cluster.

To check the data collection basically we need to check in 4 Tables Host, DataCollectionStatus,FilterSpec and FilterSpecGroup As per the result we would need to pass the different values to see…

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#DataCollection

How to login into VRA 7.x tenant and list all the Tenant using Python 3.8

Recently I started exploring the python and how can we utilize for VRA 7.X. Many of you already know VRA comes with lot of rest API , and API is the easiest way to interact with any product. I decided to explore using python. I have taken reference from serval other article to understand how can we do this , We get the data then convert data to information and in Human Readable form and come up with…

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#Login-Tenant #Tenant

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