Book description
Learn the fundamentals of vRealize Automation to accelerate the delivery of your IT services
About This Book
- Learn to install the vRealize Automation product in a distributed architecture using a load balancer
- Plan backup and recovery strategies for every vRealize automation component
- Use vRealize Automation to manage applications and improve operational efficiency using this simple and intuitive guide
Who This Book Is For
This book is for anyone who wants to start their journey with vRealize Automation. It is your one-stop instruction guide to installing and configuring a distributed setup using NSX load balancer. Regardless of whether or not you have used vRealize Automation before, following the steps provided in each chapter will get you started with the product.
What You Will Learn
- Understand the basic building blocks of vRealize Automation before embarking on the journey of installation
- Familiarize yourself with the requirements and steps that need to be performed during the first phase of the distributed installation
- Carry out a functional validation of the first phase of installation before completing the installation
- Build a blueprint for vSphere endpoint, an essential step for a successful deployment of a service catalog
- Create, configure, and deploy tenants, endpoints, blueprints, and the service catalog
- Get to grips with the failover process for all components in vRealize Automation
- Learn to configure the NSX loadbalancer for vRealize Orchestrator for high availability
- Leverage ASD to develop XaaS (Anything as a Service) in vRealize Automation to deliver valuable competence
In Detail
With the growing interest in Software Defined Data Centers (SDDC), vRealize Automation offers data center users an organized service catalog and governance for administrators. This way, end users gain autonomy while the IT department stays in control, making sure security and compliance requirements are met. Learning what each component does and how they dovetail with each other will bolster your understanding of vRealize Automation.
The book starts off with an introduction to the distributed architecture that has been tested and installed in large scale deployments. Implementing and configuring distributed architecture with custom certificates is unarguably a demanding task, and it will be covered next. After this, we will progress with the installation. A vRealize Automation blueprint can be prepared in multiple ways; we will focus solely on vSphere endpoint blueprint. After this, we will discuss the high availability configuration via NSX loadbalancer for vRealize Orchestrator. Finally, we end with Advanced Service Designer, which provides service architects with the ability to create advanced services and publish them as catalog items.
Style and approach
This book takes a step-by-step approach, is explained in a conversational and easy-to-follow style, and includes ample screenshots . Each topic is explained sequentially through planning, preparing, installing, configuring, and validating of all vRealize Automation's components.
Table of contents
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Learning VMware vRealize Automation
- Table of Contents
- Learning VMware vRealize Automation
- Credits
- About the Author
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
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1. vRealize Automation and the Deconstruction of Components
- What is vRealize Automation?
- Common use cases of vRealize Automation
- vRealize Automation – a conceptual diagram
- Identity management appliance or SSO or PSC
- vRealize Automation or CAFÉ appliance
- IaaS – architecture and component deep dive
- Model Manager
- MSSQL database
- Manager Service
- Distributed Execution Manager
- Infrastructure agent
- Management agent
- Startup order
- Shutdown order
- Summary
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2. Distributed Installation Using Custom Certificates
- Getting started
- Overview of the installation flow
- Certificates
- Identity management for authentication and authorization by vRA components
- Configuring the external vPostgres DB in HA for the vRealize Automation CAFÉ appliance
- Configuring the CAFÉ appliance in HA
- IaaS installation
- Overview of the IaaS installation flow (only the first nodes)
- IaaS WEB installation
- Installation of the first Manager Service and DEM Orchestrator node
- Installation of the First DEM Worker and Proxy Agent
- Proxy Agent installation
- Updating the NSX load balancer configuration for WEB and MGR
- Summary
- 3. Functional Validation – Phase 1 and Installing Secondary Nodes
- 4. Configuring a Guest OS for vRealize Automation vSphere Blueprints
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5. Functional Validation – Phase 2 and Zero to VM Provisioning
- An overview of creating a service catalog
- Providing the required permissions in the vSphere Endpoint
- Creating and configuring credentials
- Configuring the vSphere Endpoint
- Login validation
- Configuring fabric groups
- Configuring the machine prefix
- Creating business groups
- Configuring reservation policies
- Configuring VM template and VM customization specifications in vCenter
- Creating a vSphere blueprint
- Creating a service
- Configuring a catalog item
- Creating an entitlement
- Requesting a service catalog
- Monitoring deployment status
- Things to remember
- Summary
- 6. Testing Failover Scenarios for vRealize Automation Components
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7. vRealize Orchestrator in High Availability via the NSX Load Balancer
- Types of Orchestrator configuration
- Planning and preparing
- Infrastructure details
- Configuring the vRealize Orchestrator cluster
- Orchestrator NSX load balancer configurations
- vRealize Orchestrator high availability mechanism
- Configuring vRO at CAFÉ or IaaS makes a difference!
- Summary
- 8. The Power of Advanced Service Designer (ASD)
- Index
Product information
- Title: Learning VMware vRealize Automation
- Author(s):
- Release date: February 2016
- Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
- ISBN: 9781785885839
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