vCloud Automation Center – vCAC 6.0 – Creating Entitlements
Entitlements are what allow you to give users/groups access to Services and/or Blueprints as well as determine what actions they can perform with them. Entitlements offer a significant amount of...
View ArticlevCloud Automation Center vCAC 6.0 – Using Linux Kickstart to Provision to...
That big ole title pretty much says it all. In this article I’m going to walk through how to deploy RHEL (Centos) Linux onto a Physical HP Server over the iLo interface using Kickstart. When...
View ArticlevCloud Automation Center – vCAC 6.0 – Creating a VMware VCHS blueprint
Creating a blueprint for VCHS has a few pieces to it that are a little different that creating a standard vSphere blueprint. We need to start by creating a component blueprint that will then be...
View ArticlevRealize Automation – vCAC 6.1 / NSX 6.1 – Creating NSX Reservations
When integrating vCAC with NSX you will need to configure reservations for use with NSX. Depending on your configuration you may need one or more reservations. One reservation for your provisioned...
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VMware vRealize Automation – vRA7 – Custom Hostnaming Extension for vRA7 and...
Advertise here with BSAOverview One of the most frequent asks when using vRA is, “How do I deploy machines using my company’s hostnaming standards automatically using vRA?” Since the out-of-the box...
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vCloud Automation Center – vCAC 6.0 Creating a VCHS Reservation
VCHS reservations are very similar to creating a vSphere reservation as you may expect. You are going to assign it to a Tenant and business group, you are going to reserve memory and storage, and...
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vCloud Automation Center – vCAC 6.0 Creating a Physical HP Blueprint
Physical blueprints are a bit different than Virtual Blueprints because you can’t give users the ability to define the exact makeup of the machine they want. They can’t decide they want to add...
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vCloud Automation Center – vCAC 6.0 – Creating a Service
vCAC 6.0 introduces us to a new Self-Service catalog and a new way of managing Catalog Items. In previous versions of vCAC Blueprints were assigned to groups within the Blueprint itself. In vCAC 6.0...
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vCloud Automation Center – vCAC 6.0 – Enabling Catalog Items
When we created a blueprint we had to publish the blueprint. Publishing the blueprint allows it to become available as a catalog item that we can assign to a service and later entitle a user to have...
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Using the vRA Cloud Client to export and import blueprints
There are lots of reasons to want to export and import blueprints from one vRA instance to another. My current motives are to move blueprints from my vRA 7.2 environment to my newly deployed vRA 7.3...
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