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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.
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Learning VMware vRealize Automation
Learning VMware vRealize Automation
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About the Author
Sriram Rajendran is a member of the CTO Ambassador program at VMware. He has been a veteran of the IT industry, for more than 12 years, and a focused technologist with expertise in cloud computing, networking, storage, and server virtualization technologies.
Sriram wears multiple hats at VMware. As a solution architect, he provides technical leadership and expertise to design, deploy, and scale the VMware SDDC stack for its Fortune 500 customers. His primary focus for VMware SSDC are automation, operations, and third-party integration.
As a senior escalations manager, he is the go-to person for handling critical executive escalations that have out blown traditional GSS escalation processes. His focus here is not just managing escalations through various internal VMware organizations but also external partner organizations and their processes and extranet multivendor support processes like TSANET.
As a CTO Ambassador, he is responsible for connecting the research and development team with customers, partners, and field as the global VMware evangelist. His focus is on defining and communicating VMware's vision and strategy, and acting as an advisor for VMware's vRealize Automation solutions, product roadmap, and portfolio.
Previously, as a staff escalation engineer, he worked on customer escalations and prioritizing the requests for the team. He was also the lead on recruitment and talent management for the support and escalations team. He also worked closely with various engineering teams within VMware to help provide early feedback on the design and architecture of products based on escalations and his other field interactions.
Prior to joining VMware, he worked at Slash Support and HP in their support organizations in technical leadership roles.
Sriram has devoted much of his professional career to the design, implementation, and maintenance of large physical and virtual networks, storage and servers, and cloud architectures based on VMware, Microsoft, and other leading enterprise technologies.
I would like to dedicate this book to my incredible parents, my wife, my siblings, and my friend—S.V. Rajendran, R. Mahalakshmi, Shwetha, Manju, Vani, Priya, Arunraj. Without your encouragement and support over so many years, this book would not have been possible.
About the Reviewers
Sriram Balasubramanian has over 17 years of experience in the IT field. He is currently working as a senior engineering manager for the VMware management business unit. In the last 6 years in VMware, he designed and developed various features for quite a few products such as vRealize Configuration Manager, vRealize Operations Management pack for vCloud Director, vRealize Orchestrator, and IT Financial Management. In his current capacity, he handles Fortune 500 critical customer escalations for management products.
Kumaran Kamala Kannan has over 5 years of experience in the IT field and holds a masters degree in network security. He is currently working as a senior member of the technical staff in VMware. He has worked on the development of multiple products including vRealize Configuration Manager, vRealize Orchestrator, and vRealize Automation. His research interests include computer and information security, cloud computing and data mining.
Sreekumar Nair has more than 10 years of experience in the IT industry with 6 years in VMware. He is currently working as a VMware technical account manager in Singapore, where he handles multiple critical customer accounts. Prior to this role, he was working as an escalation engineer with Global Support Services, where he handled escalations related to vRealize automation. Also, he has expertise in design and implementation of VMware infrastructure including automation solutions. He holds certifications from VMware, Microsoft, and, Citrix.
Aravind Sivaraman has over 9 years of experience in the IT field. He is currently working as a solution architect, providing the consultation, design, and delivery of complex IT infrastructure based on virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions. He holds certifications from VMware, Microsoft, and Cisco, and has been awarded the VMware vExpert title for the last 3 years (2013-2015). He blogs at http://www.aravindsivaraman.com/ and can be followed on Twitter at @ss_aravind.
He co-authored VMware ESXi Cookbook and was the technical reviewer of Troubleshooting vSphere Storage, VMware vSphere Security Cookbook and VMware vSphere Design Essentials, Packt Publishing.
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Preface
DynamicOps originated at Credit Suisse. Its software was initially developed at Credit Suisse's Global Research and Development Group in 2005 to help the company address the operational and governance challenges of rolling out virtualization technology. In 2008, after having deployed and used the software to manage thousands of its virtual machines, Credit Suisse decided to form a company based on the technology to form a new company—DynamicOps. Operations Virtualization is a foundational technology for DynamicOps' cloud offerings. Operations Virtualization is an abstraction layer between the multiple management systems that make up a cloud infrastructure and their consumers. It allows IT staff to apply management to the layers below without the layers above needing to know how or why. Later in July 2012, DynamicOps was acquired by VMware and the product was renamed to vCenter Automation Center (vCAC). With version 6.2 of vCAC, the product has been renamed to vRealize Automation (vRA) to align with their new strategies.
If there's one thing people should know about vRA, it's that it enables customers of any knowledge level to consume the cloud resources you give them access to. At the end of the day, customers don't care where a machine gets spun up as long as it's fast and it will do what they want. That means there's an approval in the request process, but then it goes off to one of the many hypervisor or cloud vendors we support. Imagine not having to put your cloud admins to work to build VMs daily, while at the same time they are getting deprovisioned automatically so that you don't have to buy hardware as often—that's the goal: ease of use for the customer, cost savings for the organization.
Today, the main value that vRA adds is the ability to manage and automate multiple cloud management tools (vSphere, RHEL KVM, AWS, and so on) as well as provision to physical hardware (through UCS, iDRAC, and iLO) to build manageable hybrid cloud, private cloud, virtual desktop, and platform as a service environments. That's a pretty large feat in itself, and you can bet that there are plans to add even more value to this product as it further integrates into the VMware suite of products.
What this book covers
Chapter 1, vRealize Automation and the Deconstruction of Components, intends to refresh your understanding with a succinct introduction to the vRealize automation architecture, and it depicts the high level details of every component involved.
Chapter 2, Distributed Installation Using Custom Certificates, implements and configures distributed architecture with custom certificates, which is a formidable task. While many blogs and official documentation talk about default installation, this chapter has the step-by-step illustrative recipe that will make it easy to follow and help you install and configure vRealize automation quickly and with a much better understanding.
Chapter 3, Functional Validation – Phase 1 and Installing Secondary Nodes, continues to install the remaining components in the distributed architecture; it will be worthwhile only if the installed components function out of the box. Once the setup is corroborated to be functional, we will advance and complete the installation.
Chapter 4, Configuring a Guest OS for vRealize Automation vSphere Blueprints, explains that the vRA blueprint can be created for different endpoints; this chapter will focus on the blueprint for the vSphere endpoint. Before we configure a blueprint for the vSphere endpoint, the vCenter-based templates need to go through a few configuration procedures. This is important for a successful deployment of the catalog items.
Chapter 5, Functional Validation – Phase 2 and Zero to VM Provisioning, spends time checking whether the setup is working as expected. While we deploy a service catalog item from the self-service user portal, we will discover the several stages of catalog deployment.
Chapter 6, Testing Failover Scenarios for vRealize Automation Components, explains that the job is not yet done once the installation and functional verification are successful. We'll spend time checking the failover scenarios for various components in this chapter.
Chapter 7, vRealize Orchestrator in High Availability via the NSX Load Balancer, focuses on the central topic of discussion in this chapter, which is the high availability configuration via NSX load balancer for vRealize Orchestrator. The Orchestrator cluster provides not only high availability, but also load balancing when configured with NSX or other third-party load balancer. We will delve into this in depth.
Chapter 8, The Power of Advanced Service Designer (ASD), provides the ability for service architects to create advanced services and publish them as catalog items. This provides the ability to create XaaS or Anything as a Service using VMware vRealize Orchestrator.
What you need for this book
This book covers a lot of ground and discusses the interactions with a lot of infrastructure services such as AD, DNS, Microsoft SQL Server, vSphere Infrastructure, NSX, vRealize Automation, and vRealize Orchestrator.
The bill of materials used in this book are, Windows 2012 AD, MS SQL 2008, vSphere 5.5 infrastructure, NSX 6.2 OVF, vRealize Automation 6.2 OVF, and Orchestrator 6.0 OVF. Also, you will need Windows 2008/2012 or a Linux distro of your choice (supported) for creating blueprints.
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.
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Chapter 1. vRealize Automation and the Deconstruction of Components
Welcome to the world of automation! I am sure you have heard about vRealize Automation product (vRA), formerly vCloud Automation Center (vCAC). In this chapter, we will focus on the use
