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Reverse Proxy in vRealize Automation
Understanding Reverse Proxy ( haproxy ) On vRealize Automation Appliance we have multiple services running simultaneously. An Open-Source...

Arun Nukula
Dec 31, 2018


Behind the Scenes : Installing vRealize Automation 7.4
This article is being written to help my team to understand what goes on behind the scenes when you install vRealize Automation 7.4 My...

Arun Nukula
Dec 27, 2018


Unable to connect to endpoint. Timeout occurred while processing the request
Test Connection Request while adding an endpoint fails with an exception Unable to connect to endpoint. Timeout occurred while processing...

Arun Nukula
Nov 11, 2018
CryptographicException - Keyset does not exist
Recently stumbled upon a problem where "Last Connected " status of IaaS nodes under VAMI was way off. Ideally "Last Connected" Status of...

Arun Nukula
Nov 7, 2018
Reconfigure action fails with exception " An item with the same key has already been added &quo
Last week was debugging a problem where user was trying to reconfigure a VM which was imported into vRA Version of vRA was 7.3.1 , There...

Arun Nukula
Nov 7, 2018


Upgrade vRealize Lifecycle Manager
At the end of this blog post, you should be able t Upgrade vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager to a newer version Locate upgrade related log...

Arun Nukula
Oct 11, 2018
vRealize Automation 7.4 HF6 released
vRealize Automation 7.4 HF6 has been officially released New issues resolved in this patch are User cannot see owned items when Owned By...

Arun Nukula
Oct 10, 2018
Behind the Scenes : vRealize Automation Upgrade to 7.5
We monitor /opt/vmware/var/log/vami/updatecli.log and upgrade-iaas.log during upgrade of vRealize Automation , it might be any version...

Arun Nukula
Sep 28, 2018
Requests stuck at "IN PROGRESS", even after a successful "APPROVAL" ?
Recently, was working on a interesting problem with vRA 7.3 where user's request get's into IN PROGRESS state after a successful approval...

Arun Nukula
Sep 28, 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...

Arun Nukula
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...

Arun Nukula
Sep 24, 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,...

Arun Nukula
Sep 23, 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...

Arun Nukula
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...

Arun Nukula
Sep 21, 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...

Arun Nukula
Sep 10, 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...

Arun Nukula
Aug 21, 2018


L1 Terminal Fault a.k.a L1TF
Intel has disclosed details on a new class of CPU speculative-execution vulnerabilities known collectively as “L1 Terminal Fault” that...

Arun Nukula
Aug 17, 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...

Arun Nukula
Jul 27, 2018


vRealize Suite LifeCycle Manager Introduction
vRealize Suite LifeCycle Manager a.k.a vRLCM is designed to streamline and simplify deployment and on-going management of vRealize...

Arun Nukula
Jul 26, 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...

Arun Nukula
Jul 25, 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...

Arun Nukula
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...

Arun Nukula
Jul 23, 2018


Check vRA Services status via API
Login into vRA appliance Then execute below command curl --insecure -f -s -H "Content-Type: application/json" "https:/$HOSTNAME/component...

Arun Nukula
Jul 20, 2018


AWS 101
This blog article would talk about various services being offered by AWS AWS Global Infrastructure AWS Region & Availability Zones Each...

Arun Nukula
Jul 15, 2018
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