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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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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785885839
Length 230 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Sriram Rajendran Sriram Rajendran
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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

Configuring the external vPostgres DB in HA for the vRealize Automation CAFÉ appliance


It is recommended that you use an external instance of the vPostgres database for the CAFÉ appliance in a high availability (HA) environment. However, since the release of VMware vRealize Automation standalone, VMware vFabric Postgres is the end of availability and is no longer available as a standalone product. To address customers' needs, VMware developed a way to utilize the database instance located in the VMware vRealize Automation appliance in HA mode without having to incur additional licensing.

The following steps are clearly documented at http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2108923. We will follow exactly the same steps given here, with some screenshots for ease of understanding.

Prerequisites

Allocate the hostname and IP address, and create DNS records (A and PTR) for the virtual IP of the vPostgres DB and two vPostgres DB nodes:

  1. Create the NSX load balancer configurations for the vPostgres database.

  2. Freshly...

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