Month: October 2022

Disable NSX-T password expiration

In my home lab, I want to deactivate the password expiration of the NSX-T local management user accounts on both, NSX-T Manager and Edges. There are three local users: root, admin, and audit. The default password expiration is set to 90 days.

This short post documents how to disable the passwords of the three local users.

vRA lifecycle extensibility with vRO workflows

vRealize Automation provides pre-defined application and services life cycles operations which require customizing this life cycle via extensibility. This lifecycle extensibility is applied through the Event Broker Service (EBS).

vRealize Automation 8.x provisioning event topics are designed with a set of high level topics calling deployment resources topics. Event topics trigger when particular events occur in vRealize automation; examples are:

  • When a cloud template is deployed
  • When the resources in a deployment are allocated
  • During a life cycle state and entity change
  • When an approval policy is triggered
  • When Day-2 operations are requested

The following event topics are defined in vRA for the provision lifecycle phase (image taken from the official VMware documentation):

In this example we’re going to have a more detailed look on the lifecycle of a virtual machine during the provisioning.

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