vRealize Automation (vCAC) – The cost of being agile
Building a cloud is easy right? There are products out there that can stand up a cloud for you in a week and automate your entire IT infrastructure practic
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VMware vRealize Cloud Client 3.0 is GA
What is the cloud client you ask? The CloudClient is a verb based command-line utility aimed at simplifying interactions with multiple product api’s. The C
vCloud Automation Center: vCAC 6.0: Configuring Linux Logical Volumes (LVM) using the vCAC 6.0 Linux Guest Agent
More and more frequently I get asked about support for configuring LVM(Logical Volumes) in Linux guests provisioned by vCAC. The short answer is the guest
vCloud Automation Center: vCAC 6.0: Creating a vSphere Clone Blueprint
In this article we are going to be creating a vSphere Clone Blueprint. To do this we need to have a few things in place before we begin. Within the bluepri
vCloud Automation Center: vCAC 6.0: Installing the vCAC 6.0 Linux Guest Agent
In this article we are going to cover how to install the vCAC 6.0.x Linux Guest Operations Agent. The Linux Guest Operations agent is used to perform post
vCloud Automation Center: vCAC 6.0: Creating a VMware VCHS blueprint
Creating a blueprint for VCHS has a few pieces to it that are a little different that creating a standard vSphere blueprint. We need to start by creating a
vCloud Automation Center vCAC 6.0: Using Linux Kickstart to Provision to Physical HP Server over iLo
That big ole title pretty much says it all. In this article I''m going to walk through how to deploy RHEL (Centos) Linux onto a Physical HP Server over the
vCloud Automation Center: vCAC 6.0: Enabling Catalog Items
When we created a blueprint we had to publish the blueprint. Publishing the blueprint allows it to become available as a catalog item that we can assign to
vCloud Automation Center: vCAC 6.0: Creating a Service
vCAC 6.0 introduces us to a new Self-Service catalog and a new way of managing Catalog Items. In previous versions of vCAC Blueprints were assigned to grou
vCloud Automation Center: vCAC 6.0 Creating a Physical HP Blueprint
Physical blueprints are a bit different than Virtual Blueprints because you can''t give users the ability to define the exact makeup of the machine they wa
vCloud Automation Center: vCAC 6.0 Creating a VCHS Reservation
VCHS reservations are very similar to creating a vSphere reservation as you may expect. You are going to assign it to a Tenant and business group, you are
vCloud Automation Center: vCAC 6.0 Creating a vSphere Reservation
There are two types of vSphere reservation within vCAC. Reservations against a vSphere host and reservations against vSphere clusters. In order to create e