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Recently, I was asked by a customer to deploy a custom NSX-T firewalling solution for their virtual machines, where virtual machines owned by an Aria Automation user are allowed to communicate with virtual machines of the same user. The solution leverages NSX-T firewall rules based on groups, where the group membership is defined based on NSX-T tags attached to a virtual machine.

To achieve the custom tagging of virtual machines in NSX-T during the VM deployment phase in Aria Automation, I developed a Orchestrator workflow leveraging the capabilities of the NSX-T API.

In this blog post, I’ll demonstrate how to use the NSX-T API from Orchestrator.

Announcing Build Tools for VMware Aria: DevOps…

By Adrian

On March 5, 2023

In VMware

Announcing Build Tools for VMware Aria: DevOps…

Build Tools for VMware Aria originated as an internal VMware project. It is used by delivery teams to develop, test, and deploy customer automation solutions based on products that are part of VMware Aria Suite… Continued here.

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Howto customize the Aria Automation landing page

By Adrian

On February 25, 2023

In VMware

There are two options to customize Aria Automation start page:

Common title, and landing page title and content
Image

To change the title and content text, we login the Aria Auto VA using the root account.

Then we navigate into the folder /opt/tarballs/landing-ui/assets/i18n, where a couple of language files are stored in JSON format, e.g. en.json.

Simply adjust the content of these files as required and save each file.

To change the image on the landing page, we again login the Aria Auto VA using the root account.

Then we navigate into the folder /opt/tarballs/landing-ui/assets/img, where the landing page image is stored in SVG format. You can upload your own SVG file here, it must be called welcome-intro-01.svg and saved with file system permissions of 664.

Both actions must be performed on all nodes in a cluster. No restart of any service is required.

🏆 vExpert 2023 Awards Announcement

By Adrian

On February 21, 2023

In VMware

Happy to be selected as a vExpert again!

🏆 vExpert 2023 Awards Announcement

Thank you to everyone who applied for vExpert and to the vExpert PROs for managing the voting process, it’s a lot of work! We are pleased to announce the list of 2023 vExperts. You can visit the vExpert Directory to see the list and profiles of each vExpert… Continued here.

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Deploying the vCenter Server Appliance 8.0.0 to VMware Cloud Director

By Adrian

On December 5, 2022

In VMware

Recently, I needed to deploy VCSA 8.0.0 in a VMware Cloud Director environment, which initially ended up with the following cryptic error message when trying to import the VCSA OVA file from the installer ISO into a VCD vApp template:

Error: Validation failed for the OVF file you provided: Fatal: Line/char 578/96: cvc-minInclusive-valid: Value ‘-100’ is not facet-valid with respect to minInclusive ‘0’ for type ‘unsignedShort’.

Although not officially supported by VMware, I came up with the following solution: Replace the mentioned value with a valid one in the OVF file as an unsigned short data type cannot have a negative value, i.e. it must be in the range of 0 to 65535. Thus, we’ll simply remove the sign from the value and store it as “100” in the OVF file.