Automated Deployment

vRealize Automation – vCAC 6.1 – Building vCO workflows for Multi-Machine Blueprints

It seem that there is a bit of confusion around using vCO workflows with multi-machine blueprints. Before I discuss how to build vCO workflows for multi-ma

Automated Deployment

vRealize Automation – vCAC 6.1 – Custom vCenter Folder Extension

Overview vCAC by default will place all provisioned machines into a vCenter folder named VRM. You can override this using the custom property VMware.Virtua

Automated Deployment

vRealize Autoamtion – vCAC 6.1 – Creating a One to One NAT Network Profile

One-to-One NAT environments allow you to perform both SNAT and DNAT for all machines provisioned behind and NSX Edge Gateway . For each machine provisioned

Automated Deployment

vRealize Automation – vCAC 6.1 – Creating a Private Network Profile

Private networks have no upstream (North. South) NAT or routing when they are deployed. They are networks attached to the deployed NSX Edge Gateway that h

Automated Deployment

vRealize Automation – vCAC 6.1 – Creating a One to Many NAT Network Profile

When configuring a NAT Network Profile you have two options. You can configure a one-to-one or a one-to-many. Here we are going to walk through creating a

Cloud

vRealize Automation – vCAC 6.1 / NSX 6.1 – Creating a Multi-Machine Blueprint w/NSX Routed Gateway Support

The out of the box vCAC to NSX integration requires the use of Multi-Machine blueprints. Multi-Machine blueprints are basically a blueprint that pulls together two or more vCAC blueprints into a single composite.

Automated Deployment

vRealize Automation: vCAC 6.1 / NSX 6.1 – Creating NSX Reservations

When integrating vCAC with NSX you will need to configure reservations for use with NSX. Depending on your configuration you may need one or more reservati

Automated Deployment

vRealize Automation – vCAC 6.1 / NSX6.1 – Routed Network Profiles

Routed Network Profiles have a very specific function. Routed Network Profiles are used in conjunction with NSX and Multi-Machine vCAC blueprints. Routed N

Automation

vRealize Automation – vCAC 6.1 – External Network Profiles

External Network profiles in vCAC enable you to create a range of IP addresses that can used to statically assign IP address to provisioned workloads in yo

App D

vRealize Automation – vCAC 6.1 – Registering the Application Services Cloud Provider and Templates

Once your vCAC Application Services appliance is installed and configured, you must set up a Cloud Provider.  A Cloud Provider is a system that will p

Automation

VMware NSX 6.1 & vCAC 6.1 – Connecting NSX to vCAC

Now that we have installed and configured NSX I think it’s time we connected it to vCAC. In version 6.1 there are some changes to the integration with NSX

Automation

vRealize Automation – vCAC 6.1 – Adding a vCO Endpoint

Item 2 updated for vRA 7 vCO Endpoints are used by vCAC when vCAC needs to execute vCO workflows. These can be out of the box workflows such as the NSX wor