vRO | Stijn Vermoesen

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 …