vRealize Automation
Useful Cloud Template Tasks
- Dynamic Network Portgroup Selection – Your Cloud Templates can have a list of network port groups to choose from. If you have a large number of port groups this can be hard to maintain. This post shows how vRA can dynamically populate a drop down of networks for your users to select from when requesting a VM
- Adding Custom Attribute to VM – If your environment makes use of Custom Attributes on virtual machines, your Cloud Templates can be configured to do this when deploying workloads
Troubleshooting
- Generate Diagnostic Log Bundle – There are a number of options that can be used to control bundle file size and ensure you capture the data needed.
- Starting and Stopping Aria Automation services – This can be useful if the Automation VM goes down hard or has trouble starting up
Shutdown
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- /opt/scripts/svc-stop.sh
- sleep 120
- /opt/scripts/deploy.sh –onlyClean
Startup
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- /opt/scripts/deploy.sh