Stijn Vermoesen

Custom Property based filtering in vRA8

Dec 5, 2022 vRA

Recently I have been looking into a way to create environment independent filters in Aria Automation extensibility. Transferring content between multiple vRA instances is quit easy using the content management functionality in VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle (VASL). The content management functionality however …

Workspace One Access related errors in vRealize Lifecycle Manager

Feb 17, 2022 vRA vRSLCM

A quick blog post regarding some errors I encountered recently in vRealize Lifecycle Manager while preparing for some maintenance work on a clustered Workspace One Access instance. While preparing the vRSLCM environment to enable multi tenancy for vRA 8 I ran into the LCMVIDMIMPORT0019 and LCMVIDM73107 errors. These …

LCMVRAVACONFIG90039 error during vRA 8 deployment

Jan 11, 2021 vRA vRSLCM

While all prechecks finished succesfully during a vRealize Automation 8 deployment recently vRSLCM threw error LCMVRAVACONFIG90039 while deploying. To have a better understanding of what went wrong I looked at the vmware_vrlcm.log file on the vRSLCM appliance. This log file contained below error message, indicating …

DNS & certificate requirements for vRealize Automation 8 multitenancy

Dec 4, 2020 vRA

Lately I have been in a few discussions related to multitenancy in vRealize Automation 8 and the related DNS and certificate requirements. In this post I describe how we can combine the vRA requirements with a user friendly URL to access the vRA portal. DNS requirements In earlier vRA versions the tenant ID was …

Resolving installer.app malicious software error on MacOS

Nov 16, 2020 vRA MacOS

While I was deploying vRA 8 in my homelab recently, I ran into an issue where the installer.app could not be started due to MacOS security restrictions. I ran into similar issues already earlier with other VMware product installers but never wrote down how to solve it. Before you mount the iso file execute below …

Updating and retrieving custom properties in vRA7

Aug 25, 2020 vRA vRO

Custom properties are the corner stone of vRA to enable customization of the deployment of a blueprint. They influence the deployment process within vRA and can be transferred to vRO to customize the blueprint deployment. In this blog post I describe the limitations, in regards of passing information between workflows, …

Installing vRealize build tools - Part 2

Mar 25, 2020 vRA vRO Visual Studio Code vRealize Build Tools

In the first part I described how to prepare your environment to start using the vRealize Build Tools. In this part I’m describing how to configure your mac. Install and configure Java JDK I had some issues getting the VMware Build Tools, Maven and Java to work together properly. This was due to Java 8 being …

Installing vRealize build tools - Part 1

Mar 5, 2020 vRA vRO Visual Studio Code vRealize Build Tools

People working with vRealize Orchestrator know that it is a powerful orchestration engine. The UI however has not evolved until very recently. Another downside of vRO 7.x is that there is no native integration with versioning tools like git. Since version 8 of vRO the old Java client is no longer available, instead it …

Using Active Directory Policies with custom hostnames in vRealize Automation - Part 2

Jul 2, 2019 vRA

In Part 1 I described how to configure the prerequisite AD endpoint and AD policy in vRA. In this one I describe how a custom hostname workflow can be combined with the use of Active Directory policies and the associated caveats. Requirements: First step is to create a workflow which generates a custom hostname. I am …

Using Active Directory Policies with custom hostnames in vRealize Automation - Part 1

Jun 29, 2019 vRA

One of my vRA projects had some interesting requirements for their blueprints in regards to Active Directory combined with custom hostnames. Requirements: The customer uses custom hostnames based on parameters provided during the request. The computer accounts need to be placed in OUs based on the application installed …