Happy to be selected as a vExpert again!
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.
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.
VMware Aria was announced during this year’s VMware Explore US General Session, and it of course also featured sessions in VMware Explore EMEA. Time to recap what it is all about:
“VMware Aria is a multi-cloud management portfolio that provides a set of end-to-end solutions for managing the cost, performance, configuration, and delivery of infrastructure and cloud-native applications across any cloud.”
The brand title “Aria” was chosen to describe a piece for voice. That piece could be an instrumental accompaniment or be solo, and is usually part of a longer work, like an opera. Sing with one Voice.
The new Aria portfolio adds new solutions such as Aria Hub, Aria Guardrails, Aria Migration, and Aria Business Insight, but also consists of the former vRealize Suite products vRealize Automation, vRealize Operations, vRealize Log Insight, and vRealize Network Insight. It also adds vRealize True Visibility Suite and CloudHealth Secure State. Further, VMware Aria complements VMware Tanzu by including Tanzu Observability by Wavefront.
In a nutshell, the Aria portfolio consists of the following:
Additionally, VMware Skyline is included in the VMware Aria portfolio.
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.
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:
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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