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Experienced Technology Product Manager adept at steering success throughout the entire product lifecycle, from conceptualization to market delivery. Proficient in market analysis, strategic planning, and effective team leadership, utilizing data-driven approaches for ongoing enhancements.

Sep 24, 2018

Could not parse OVF at URL http://<<hostname>>/<<filename>>.ova -()

Recently, bumped into an issue where users were trying to configure a blueprint to use ImportOvfWorkflow. When ImportOvfWorkflow is...

Sep 24, 2018

Failures during vRA patch installation

Was working on a brand new installation of vRA 7.4 where we were attempting to patch with the latest one under KB 56618 While...

Sep 23, 2018

VAMI portal changes in vRealize Automation 7.5

Just upgraded my lab to RA 7.5, so thought to blog on changes in VAMI from 7.4 to 7.5 TIP 1 When you take an SSH session to a vRA node,...

Sep 21, 2018

What's New in vRealize Automation 7.5

vRealize Automation 7.5 released on September 20, 2018. Below is the list of new features and enhancements which came up with this...

Sep 21, 2018

Installing vRealize Automation 7.5

There isn't a great deal of difference in deploying a simple instance of vRA 7.5. It's same as in it's previous versions. Sharing...

Sep 10, 2018

IaaS node upgrade fails with exception "The archive period of resource <<VMName>> i

Once IaaS upgrade kicks-off in some environments you might experience an error stating it cannot continue upgrading ModelManagerWeb...

Aug 21, 2018

Migrating vRA IaaS database to a NEW SERVER

This article details on what steps are to be taken in order to migrate vRA IAAS database from one node to another There are three places...

Jul 27, 2018

!!! Rabbitmq reported unrecoverable state , recovery.dets corrupted !!!

Unable to start rabbitmq after an outage? Are you seeing a similar exception as below 2018-07-26T09:39:17.273888+00:00...

Jul 25, 2018

Patching vRealize Automation after upgrade to version 7.4

VMware recently released HF3 as it's called internally to remediate few important bugs. Click here to checkout what bugs are fixed...

Jul 23, 2018

ehcache replication errors in horizon.log

Are you seeing similar exceptions in horizon.log? First step you do to troubleshoot elasticcache problem is to check if...

Jul 23, 2018

vRealize Automation Upgrade Guide from version 7.3 to 7.4

I shall be sharing a comprehensive guide for upgrading your existing vRealize Automation 7.3 to 7.4 Let's start by describing my...

Jul 15, 2018

! Error searching for Sync Results from Storage

When you browse directories in vRA UI and click on Sync Log , are you seeing a message stating ! Error searching for Sync Results from...

Jul 15, 2018

Removing stale Puppet entries from Configuration Items

When provisioning / destroy fails or is stuck due to whatever reason , there is every chance that we have to manually clean them. In our...

Jun 28, 2018

Removing an existing vRA License

Came across a situation where even though the product was licensed , it was stating that it's not found in the database. Re-applying same...

Mar 26, 2018

vRA portal "Machine" tab exception

We get following exception by clicking on Machine tab on vRA portal Error while retrieving resources from provider [Infrastructure...

Mar 23, 2018

Manually deleting a directory in vRA 7.x

There might be situations where you would not be able to delete directory from vRA portal Recently, was working on a issue where vRA...

Feb 24, 2018

vPostgres Database Failover Scenarios

Master Database constantly streams transactions to Replica servers Once Master fails, the active and working Replica is ready to proceed...

Feb 24, 2018

vRealize Automation Appliance High Availability

The vRealize Automation appliance supports active-active high availability for all components except the appliance database. Starting...