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Learning VMware vRealize Automation

You're reading from   Learning VMware vRealize Automation Learn the fundamentals of vRealize Automation to accelerate the delivery of your IT services

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Sriram Rajendran is a member of the CTO Ambassador program at VMware. He has been a veteran of the IT industry, for more than 12 years, and a focused technologist with expertise in cloud computing, networking, storage, and server virtualization technologies. Sriram wears multiple hats at VMware. As a solution architect, he provides technical leadership and expertise to design, deploy, and scale the VMware SDDC stack for its Fortune 500 customers. His primary focus for VMware SSDC are automation, operations, and third-party integration. As a senior escalations manager, he is the go-to person for handling critical executive escalations that have out blown traditional GSS escalation processes. His focus here is not just managing escalations through various internal VMware organizations but also external partner organizations and their processes and extranet multivendor support processes like TSANET. As a CTO Ambassador, he is responsible for connecting the research and development team with customers, partners, and field as the global VMware evangelist. His focus is on defining and communicating VMware's vision and strategy, and acting as an advisor for VMware's vRealize Automation solutions, product roadmap, and portfolio. Previously, as a staff escalation engineer, he worked on customer escalations and prioritizing the requests for the team. He was also the lead on recruitment and talent management for the support and escalations team. He also worked closely with various engineering teams within VMware to help provide early feedback on the design and architecture of products based on escalations and his other field interactions. Prior to joining VMware, he worked at Slash Support and HP in their support organizations in technical leadership roles. Sriram has devoted much of his professional career to the design, implementation, and maintenance of large physical and virtual networks, storage and servers, and cloud architectures based on VMware, Microsoft, and other leading enterprise technologies.
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Preface 1. vRealize Automation and the Deconstruction of Components FREE CHAPTER 2. Distributed Installation Using Custom Certificates 3. Functional Validation – Phase 1 and Installing Secondary Nodes 4. Configuring a Guest OS for vRealize Automation vSphere Blueprints 5. Functional Validation – Phase 2 and Zero to VM Provisioning 6. Testing Failover Scenarios for vRealize Automation Components 7. vRealize Orchestrator in High Availability via the NSX Load Balancer 8. The Power of Advanced Service Designer (ASD) Index

IaaS installation

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) enables the rapid modeling and provisioning of servers and desktops across virtual and physical, private and public, or hybrid cloud infrastructures. Access to the infrastructure features is provided by the IaaS component. The installation of all IaaS components takes place on a Windows machine (physical or virtual).

The IaaS component of vRealize Automation includes multiple parts:

  • MS SQL database

  • IaaS Web Server

  • IaaS Manager Service

  • Distributed Execution Managers (Orchestrator and Workers)

  • Proxy Agents

A list of supported OSes and databases for installing IaaS components can be found at https://www.vmware.com/pdf/vrealize-automation-62-support-matrix.pdf.

The following configuration will be used in this setup:

  • All IaaS components will be installed in a virtual machine

  • Windows OS—Windows 2012 Standard

  • Database—SQL Server 2008 R2 RTM (10.50.1600.1) Enterprise Edition (x64)

The following are just recommendations for virtual machine configuration; feel...

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Sriram Rajendran is a member of the CTO Ambassador program at VMware. He has been a veteran of the IT industry, for more than 12 years, and a focused technologist with expertise in cloud computing, networking, storage, and server virtualization technologies. Sriram wears multiple hats at VMware. As a solution architect, he provides technical leadership and expertise to design, deploy, and scale the VMware SDDC stack for its Fortune 500 customers. His primary focus for VMware SSDC are automation, operations, and third-party integration. As a senior escalations manager, he is the go-to person for handling critical executive escalations that have out blown traditional GSS escalation processes. His focus here is not just managing escalations through various internal VMware organizations but also external partner organizations and their processes and extranet multivendor support processes like TSANET. As a CTO Ambassador, he is responsible for connecting the research and development team with customers, partners, and field as the global VMware evangelist. His focus is on defining and communicating VMware's vision and strategy, and acting as an advisor for VMware's vRealize Automation solutions, product roadmap, and portfolio. Previously, as a staff escalation engineer, he worked on customer escalations and prioritizing the requests for the team. He was also the lead on recruitment and talent management for the support and escalations team. He also worked closely with various engineering teams within VMware to help provide early feedback on the design and architecture of products based on escalations and his other field interactions. Prior to joining VMware, he worked at Slash Support and HP in their support organizations in technical leadership roles. Sriram has devoted much of his professional career to the design, implementation, and maintenance of large physical and virtual networks, storage and servers, and cloud architectures based on VMware, Microsoft, and other leading enterprise technologies.
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