Thanks to Veneling Bakalov for his help! VCF Automation 9 has multiple APIs that can be used (REST, Kubernetes). All have in common that for authentication a refresh token needs to be generated. By default, this is done through the UI where in the account properties there is the option to create a new API… Read More »
Thanks to Maher AlAsfar for reviewing the article! VCF Automation 9 has multiple levels of API access. There is the provider level where e.g. orgs can be created, the org level where projects, policies etc. are managed and the resource level. For all API calls there’s a good documentation page in the product which sometimes… Read More »
Thanks to Meera Menon for her help on this topic! One value proposition of the VCF Platform is that it manages both, VM-based as well as Kubernetes-based workloads. VCF includes the vSphere Supervisor Services, which provide the capability of deploying fully supported Kubernetes Clusters. VCF Automation makes sure that consumers can provision VMs, other resources… Read More »
When talking about automation, Terraform is a tool which is often used at customer installations. Many customers leverage it to manage public cloud resources as it originally has been built for that. As VCF is a private cloud solution it sounds logical to add those resources as well for a Terraform configuration. While there might… Read More »
So, you’ve installed VCF Automation 9, and you’re all excited to peek inside your shiny new virtual machines via Web Console or VMRC Client. Only… nothing happens. No console, no love, no joy. Just a blank stare and a silent scream. Don’t worry — it’s not you, it’s your certificates. Turns out, VCF Automation 9… Read More »
With the improvements of VCF Automation 9 it now includes a new model which supports developer consumer use cases. In context of the tenancy architecture, it provides 2 different types of organizations: VM-Apps-OrgAn organization which is almost identical to what is known from 8.x versions of Aria Automation. Its main purpose is to support VM-based… Read More »
A while ago I created a blog about creating a customer resource using Aria Orchestrator dynamic types. The example taken was a simple link management solution which leverages the Orchestrator configuration items. In this blog I will use the same example but in a different way. VCF Automation 9 has introduced a “new schema” type… Read More »
VCF Automation 9 introduced 2 types of organizations: VM-Apps-Organization and All-Apps-Organization. The VM-Apps-Organization is almost identical to the 8.x version of Aria Automation and can use the embedded or an external Orchestrator. The All-Apps-Organization is a completely new architecture which relies on Kubernetes APIs. It can use Orchestrator for extensibility, custom resources and other functions… Read More »
Thanks to Matteo Brioschi for his support for this blog! VCF Automation manages a full deployment cycle from the request of the process until disposal of the resource. In this context the object in question will be tracked as a deployment as long as it exists. Customers can use that deployment to invoke day-2 actions… Read More »
Thanks to Ara Petrosyan, Felix Azizyan, Ani Harutyunyan and Thomas Kopton for their help. One of the most used features in VCF Operations is its integrated capacity management engine. It has comprehensive capabilities to take metrics like HA, buffers and more into consideration and present the remaining capacity automatically. VCF Operations provides a capacity view… Read More »
Thanks to Thomas Kopton for his inputs! VCF Operations provides several management packs to enhance its capabilities for managing external systems. If for a component (e.g. a storage device) no existing management pack is available, customers can use the management pack builder to create a new pack on their own. The beauty of this is… Read More »
A very frequently asked topic for VCF Automation is how to execute a script post provisioning of a VM. This usually is leveraged to invoke post deployment processes like configuration tasks, installation of agents or even middleware deployments. Customers also use it to bridge the gap to configuration management tools. There are multiple ways to… Read More »