I’ve just finished the 8 x Cloud Management
Platform VMware Hands On Labs as below -
HOL-2021-01-CMP - vRealize Automation - Getting Started
HOL-2006-01-CMP - vRealize Suite - Making Private Cloud
Easy
HOL-2021-91-ISM - vRealize Automation 8 - What’s New -
Lightning Lab
HOL-2021-02-CMP - vRealize Automation - Advanced Topics
HOL-2021-04-CMP - vRealize Orchestrator - Getting Started
HOL-2006-02-CMP - vRealize Suite - Integrated
Troubleshooting
HOL-2006-03-CMP - vRealize Suite Life Cycle Manager
HOL-2021-03-CMP - vRealize Automation - Advanced
Extensibility
- and they are all well worth your time doing. The only
one I might skip in hindsight is HOL-2021-91-ISM, since the VCP-CMA 2020 is focused
on VMware vRealize Automation 7.6.
Image: Education
Services > Certification > VCP-CMA 2020 (the hyperlink link still
says 2019)
What Next?
Now the VMware website has been updated with the VCP-CMA
2020 -
- I know my path is to take the Professional VMware vRealize
Automation 7.6 exam once I’ve acquired enough knowledge and experience.
Now to “...item writers use the following references for
information when writing exam questions. It is recommended that you study
the reference content...” (from):
Revisiting the labs/other hands-on.
There is also a VMware Cloud Management YouTube
channel with content worth watching:
No FlexPod design guides that appear to include
vRealize, but worth checking out these NetApp Verified Designs that do (skip
the bits you’re not interested in):
Notes from the 8 x
Cloud Management Platform VMware Hands on Labs
Some notes I recorded whilst doing the labs.
VMware vRealize Automation Documentation
VMware vRealize Automation uses two distinct types of
administrator accounts to divide up the administrative tasks required to manage
the infrastructure endpoints, compute resource reservations, users, groups, and
policies that need to be put in place. These two accounts are known as the IaaS Administrator and
the Tenant Administrator.
The Tenant Administrator Portal includes two new tabs.
1. Administration
- This tab contains all-of the administrative functions that are available to
you as the Tenant Administrator.
2. Infrastructure
- Allows you to review recent events that have occurred on your tenant's
infrastructure.
DEM
= Distributed Execution Manager
vSphere SPBM (Storage Policy-Based Management
Framework)
vRealize Automation 8.0 consists of the following
components:
- Cloud Assembly
- Service Broker
- Code Stream
- Orchestrator
vRealize Automation also requires vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager and VMware Identity Manager
for installation, configuration, post-install management, and authentication.
There are two different types of Component Profiles:
-
Image
-
Size
Harbor in GitHub:
VMware Solutions Exchange:
Note: vRealize Orchestrator plugins are .VMOAPP files (can also
be installed as .DAR
files)
vRealize
Orchestrator Control Center is the main interface to configure and troubleshoot
vRealize Orchestrator.
Configure Component Profile Size Settings for
Catalog Deployments
Configure Component Profile Image Settings for
Catalog Deployments
There are some limitations to component profiles with
which you should familiarize yourself:
- If you try to resize the virtual machine to a size
greater than the largest setting, it will fail.
- Additionally, if you edit the component profile Size
ValueSets, the changes will retroactively work on any already-deployed virtual
machines.
Image: Automated Lifecycle Management and Operations
(Day 0 to Day 2)
VMware vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager comes free with
VMware vRealize Suite in all three editions. The vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager automates
installation, configuration, upgrade, patch, configuration management, drift
remediation and validate the health status of services from within a
single pane of glass, thereby freeing IT Managers/Cloud admin resources to
focus on business-critical initiatives, while improving time to value (TTV),
reliability and consistency.
Step 1) Deploy vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager appliance
and complete initial configuration.
Step 2) Deploy other VMware Products*
*Products = vRealize Network Insight, vRealize
Business for Cloud, vRealize Log Insight, vRealize Operations, vRealize
Automation
Image: VMware Products deployable from vRealize Suite
Lifecycle Manager
vRealize Automation 7 has the following options for
extending functionality beyond simple virtual machine deployment:
-
Event Broker
-
XaaS blueprints and actions
Image (1/2): vRealize Automation + Event Broker
Service & Xaas Service Designer - pluggable framework to vRO
Image (2/2): vRealize Automation + Event Broker
Service & Xaas Service Designer - pluggable framework to vRO
vRealize
CloudClient is a command-line utility that provides verb-based access
with a unified interface across vRealize Automation APIs:
Image: VMware vRealize CloudClient 4.7.0
Another resource for downloading Blueprints is VMWARE {code}. The code site allows community members to
post and share vRealize Automation Blueprints as well as workflows and other
content for VMware solutions: https://code.vmware.com
The ITSM
Plug-in 7.6 is the latest release for those looking to extend ServiceNow ITSM with
Multi-Cloud Automation with Governance.
VMware vRealize Automation integration with ServiceNow
(vRA ITSM Plugin)
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