When I was advocating for vRealize Automation while in my previous role, a frequent question I was asked by application owners was: "Can I auto scale my application, like <insert cloud provider here> allows me to?" This question often lead to defensive responses on my part.

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Today we will be reviewing the workflow package used to handle all of the aspects of this automated process. We will be leveraging several built workflows and actions, a set of community sourced workflows, and a simple workflow that stitches them together. The other posts in this series can be found below: Day Two …

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Last time we laid out the general approach of our automation framework. Today we will be completing some of the per-requisite technical tasks to enable vROPS to apply a layer of governance and detection to our framework. The other posts in this series can be found below: Day Two Automation Self Service Framework – …

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In my years on the administration and engineering side of the VMware world a task I was frequently responsible for was creating policies around the standards of my environment and then defining a process to ensure those policies were adhered to.  Some examples of the policies I authored was things around snapshot …

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I recently spent a lot of time digging into the question of “How do I enable a PKI signed cert on the vROPS vPostgreSQL database to make my security team happy?”  As I often do, I started my journey with a simple google search: “vrops vpostgres ssl“.  This search lead me to the helpful page: Enabling TLS on Localhost …

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Over the last month or so I have had two customers inquire about vROPS’s ability to perform cross-cluster storage vmotions in order to enforce business intent or multi-cluster workload optimization. Being the eager wet-behind the ear SE that I am, I set it up in my lab with some vSAN datastores and it worked! Success! …

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