Month June 2017

Extending Azure in vRA Pt.8 – Automated startup and shutdown of Azure VMs

The ability to shutdown workloads in the cloud based off of workload type, application, environment, etc which can be crazy powerful… and will save you and/or your company a few bucks. In this video, I will walk you through the… Continue Reading →

Extending Azure in vRA Pt.7 – Modifying the Azure Catalog Item

Looking back at my first vlog in this series, I showed you how to “enable” the ability to modify the OOTB vRealize Automation Azure XaaS blueprint and vRealize Orchestrator workflows to enable tasks like AD creation or change control creation for… Continue Reading →

Extending Azure in vRA Pt.6 – Changing the Instance Type of an Azure VM

The Azure portal has a really cool feature that allows its consumers to quickly change the instance type, which in essence is adding or removing CPU cores, Memory, possibly disks and disk types. In this vlog I will show you… Continue Reading →

Extending Azure in vRA Pt. 5 – Changing the Instance Types Available in vRA

The OOTB instance types VMware provided us are pretty old and need to be updated. Also, they frequently run “PROMO” instance types at steep discounts and lastly, maybe you don’t want your users spinning up G5 instance types which are nearly… Continue Reading →

Extending Azure in vRA Pt.4 – Adding Tags

Tagging is becoming an integral part of any cloud project as hostnames are becoming a thing of the past. Tagging is now used across enterprises for anything from workload placement, SLAs and OLAs, to backup schedules and showback. In this… Continue Reading →

Extending Azure in vRA Pt.3 – Adding Data Disks

A key piece of any Cloud Management Portal is to get the admins out of doing mundane and sometimes tedious operations and to just put those in the hands of the consumer. In this vlog, I will cover how to allow… Continue Reading →

Extending Azure Functionality in vRealize Automation Pt. 2

The OOTB component view that VMware has provided for the Azure VMs in vRealize Automation (vRA) does provide some good info, but it also is missing some key information that vRA users have become accustomed to. In this vlog, I… Continue Reading →

Azure and vRealize Automation, extending functionality (and together at last!)

I will have a series of blogs on the marriage or Azure and VMware vRealize Automation. I hope you enjoy them! Part 1 – Extending Azure Functionality in vRealize Automation Part 2 – Create a Day 2 Operation to Display useful… Continue Reading →

Extending Azure Functionality in vRealize Automation

With vRealize Automation 7.2.x, VMware has finally given us some form of integration into Azure. This is one of those things that the community has been asking about for months and the AWS integration has been GA for over a… Continue Reading →

Find cheap flights with Operations Orchestration!!

To continue to show one solution in different products, I created a way to search for cheap flights in HP OO. Yes, there are websites that do this but usually, the problem with this is that you still need to… Continue Reading →

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