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

1. 1. /opt/scripts/svc-stop.sh
   2. sleep 120
   3. /opt/scripts/deploy.sh –onlyClean

Startup

1. 1. /opt/scripts/deploy.sh