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How a Simple Code Crashed our VCF Orchestrator Service

💀 The Incident: A Script That Brought Down Everything It started as a routine task—running a simple script to test a small part of our workflow. But instead of gracefully failing with a StackOverflowError or a timeout, the script did something unexpected: it crashed the entire tool for over a minute, causing cascading failures across all active workflows. This wasn’t just a minor hiccup. Other…

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Get Operation with Pagination - Library Workflow Wrapper

Introduction Pagination is a common requirement when working with REST APIs, including Aria Automation (vRA) APIs. While vRA’s REST APIs implement pagination in a straightforward way, handling it properly in Aria Orchestrator (vRO) workflows can make your automation more easier to test and care-free as you don’t have to handle the tokens. Many of the times, We just want to use OOB Get Operation…

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🔍 Generating CSV Reports for Managed VMs in VMware Aria Automation

When managing hybrid and multi-cloud environments, having quick visibility into all deployed virtual machines is essential. Whether it’s for inventory management, audits, or simply keeping track of resource usage, an automated CSV report can be incredibly useful. In this blog post, we’ll walk through how to generate a CSV report listing all managed VMs in VMware Aria Automation, including key…

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VMware Aria Automation offers vRO Workflows for complex automation with stateful execution and reusability, vRO Actions for lightweight, reusable functions, and vRA ABX for serverless, event-driven tasks. In this post, we will see the differences among the three for better understanding on when to use them.

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vRO Code Editor Resizer - Chrome Plugin

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Setting up Authentication in VCF Orchestrator with no Control Center

Starting from Orchestrator 8.18.1, the infamous control center is finally gone. Some of the features like logging level and plugins are moved to Orchestrator UI itself and configuring rest of them like authentication, licensing, etc are now only doable via vracli command. While you deploy the Standalone Orchestrator, it only asks you for the initial root password. Once the standalone…

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Enabling vTPM in vSphere VMs using Orchestrator

To enable a virtual Trusted Platform Module (vTPM) for a virtual machine in vCenter using Aria Automation Orchestrator (vRO), follow these steps. This process enhances security by enabling cryptographic features like BitLocker encryption and secure boot. What is vTPM?Before it, let us see TPM first – TPM or Trusted Platform Module is a specialized chip on an endpoint device that stores RSA…

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Automate VMware Cloud Foundation with Aria Automation

Understanding VMware Aria Automation NSX Integration vSAN Integration VCF SDDC Manager Integration Conclusion VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) is great for managing your hybrid cloud. But, to truly get the most out of it, you need automation. VMware Aria Automation is the key. It makes things like deployment, management, and upkeep way easier across your VCF setup. Ready to see how Aria…

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Enterprise Framework for Network Automation with VCF Automation

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Tagging Design in VCF Automation

Tags express capabilities and constraints that determine how and where resources are allocated to workloads during the provisioning process. Tagging serves as the foundation for the workload placement in VMware Aria Automation Assembler. Tags are labels that you apply to VMware Aria Automation Assembler constructs. Tags facilitate policy-driven placement by directing how and where VMware Aria…

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List of All Orchestrators ever released

Official Plugins Partner NameVMware Aria Automation Orchestrator Plugin NameA10 NetworksA10 Lightning ADS Plugin for vRealize OrchestratorAvnetHP Operations Orchestration Plug-in for VMware vCenter OrchestratorAvnetHP uCMDB Plug-in for VMware vCenter OrchestratorAvnetBMC Remedy ITSM Plug-in for VMware vCenter OrchestratorAvnetBMC Remedy ITSM Plug-in for vRealize OrchestratorAvnetHP Server…

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Ways to generate random values in Orchestrator

Here are some robust approaches to generating a unique random value for whatever your use cases can be either generating VM names or unique IDs of some sort in Orchestrator. I’ll provide four methods with pros and cons for each method. Method 1: Math.random() method (Short and Simple) JavaScript// Generate a short, random 3-digit number as a suffix var randomSuffix = ("00" +…

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VMware shifts from Aria to VCF Branding

As announced during the VMware Explore 2024 events, Broadcom has made the decision to discontinue the Aria branding, which was still in its early stages of adoption. Users were just beginning to familiarize themselves with the tools under the Aria nomenclature. However, following the acquisition, a different path has been chosen. You would notice that even other products are shuffled and…

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VMware Latest IconSet Bundle 2024

If you design architectural diagrams, flowcharts, design maps etc. for your #VMware environment and struggle to get the right icon for your application component, you can now use this icon set collection from #Cloudblogger.

Whenever I need to design something in the VMware realm, I find myself on an exhilarating pursuit for the right icons. It’s like a treasure hunt! Instead of unearthing gold, however, I often stumble upon generic icons that look like they were sketched by a toddler or ones that simply don’t fit the bill. And let’s face it, if you’re a perfectionist like I am, you understand the struggle of diving…

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Workflow to automatically approve your VCF Automation Inbox pending approvals [CB10146]

Just a very quick post on how to approve all the pending approvals in your Aria\VCF Automation Service broker Inbox. Download this package which contains an orchestrator workflow to get you started. The process is fairly simple. Just make a REST call to get all the pending approvals and then make calls to approve them in a…

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Aria Automation Configuration Properties: The Chamber of Secrets

Let me share with you a secret menu in Aria Automation - an exclusive area filled with configuration options that could significantly impact the tool’s performance.

Warning Please don’t play around with these options in your live\production environments. Make sure you try them and understand their effect in a lab first. Introduction Many options to play around with List of all possible keys How to access it for the first time Introduction During my endeavor of migrating from SaaS to On-Prem with Aria Automation, I encountered a technical challenge…

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Understanding Bearer token better

Today, I have learned that there exists a method to decode Bearer Tokens, as these tokens fall under the category of JSON Web Tokens. Given that these types of tokens are extensively utilized in VMware environments, where my primary experience lies, acquiring additional insights into their underlying mechanisms may enhance your understanding, particularly when developing applications or…