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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.

Jun 10, 2022

What's New in vRealize Automation 8.8.1

vRealize Automation 8.8.1 capabilities are focusing on the areas of multi-cloud support with ability to Enable/Disable Log Analytics for...

Jun 6, 2022

Workflow exceptions post onboarding a virtual machine

Last week was involved on a use-case where our team was helping one of our customer to onboard virtual machines to vRealize Automation...

Jun 2, 2022

Adding a new webhook for git results in failure

Recently , worked on a case where user had challenges in creating a webhook for git We were hitting an exception stating 400 Bad Request...

Jun 2, 2022

Onboarding task deleted all virtual machines which were being onboarded ?

NO , Virtual Machines which are / were being onboarded will never be deleted automatically. Onboarding feature in vRealize Automation...

Apr 7, 2022

Who Logged IN and Logged Out from my vRealize Automation ?

There was a question on how do i identify who logged in and logged out of my vRealize Automation 8.x recently The easiest way to identify...

Apr 7, 2022

Validation of SaltStack endpoint fails when Running Environment "embedded-ABX-onprem" is chosen

Problem Statement On a greenfield installation of vRA 8.7 which is integrated with SaltStack Config , we have an option to choose...

Apr 6, 2022

Identifying vRA Version through API

Let me show an example of how we can identify version of vRA through API Request As a first step we need to fetch the authentication...

Apr 6, 2022

vIDM 3.3.x appliance has no space left on device /db/data postgres DB taking all the space

vIDM DB partition is full or nearly out of space. To validate the DB partition is using most of the space run the following commands: du...

Mar 7, 2022

Multi Node SaltStack Installation ( flow chart )

There are 2 methods to install SaltStack Config Standard method vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager method Second one is pretty straight...

Dec 18, 2021

Workaround instructions to address CVE-2021-44228 in vRealize Automation 7.6

Source of Truth : VMware KB: 87121 ( https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/87121 ) Note: I am trying to share screenshots / outputs from the...

Dec 14, 2021

Workaround instructions to address CVE-2021-44228 in vRA 8.x and vRO 8.x with screenshots |21-Dec-21

This blog complies with the new version released on 21st December 2021 Note All instructions and procedures are taken from VMware KB:...

Dec 13, 2021

Workaround to address CVE-2021-44228 in vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.x with screenshots

Steps mentioned in this article are taken from VMware's KB article: 87097 . The only difference is that this blog has screenshots which...

Dec 13, 2021

Implementing workaround to remediate CVE-2021-44228 for vRealize LogInsight 8.2 - 8.6 versions

Here's the PDF document of the same instructions Note: The content of this blog is same as in KB: 87089 but with screenshots and...

Oct 6, 2021

Exception while creating a VMware on AWS cloud account in vRealize Automation

Recently was working on an vRealize Automation environment 8.x version ( vCF based ) where an authenticated proxy was involved for...

Oct 5, 2021

vRA Inventory Syncfails with error "java.util.NoSuchElementException: No value present"

While performing an Inventory Sync for vRealize Automation environment we've seen an error stating ERROR [scheduling-1]...

Sep 15, 2021

Mind Map: Upgrade vRealize Automation 8.x

Created a small mind map which will help in understand what goes on when we upgrade vRealize Automation 8.x. Below map also contains...

Sep 11, 2021

Installing Kubernetes 1.22.1 on Ubuntu 18.04

While installing kubernetes on my on-prem lab , i did face strange issues on making them working. Thought of putting all of the steps...

Aug 4, 2021

Could not parse tenant request java.lang.IllegalStateException: Issuer not recognized

After External vRealize Orchestrator 8.x upgrade to 8.4.2 , Users were unable to launch vRO UI , it fails with HTTP 400 response ***...

Aug 3, 2021

Null Pointer Exception during Business Group Migration

I was working on a Migration Project where we did encounter a NULL POINTER EXCEPTION during migration Below Snippet is from...

Aug 3, 2021

What happens when vSphere Enumeration occurs after adding a vSphere Cloud Account ?

Detailed Analysis available here :https://tinyurl.com/vmvtrn66 There are 2 Types of enumerations which occur Full Enumeration Incremental...

Aug 3, 2021

What happens when Image Enumeration occurs for a vSphere Cloud Account ?

There are 2 types of enumerations in vRealize Automation 8.x for vSphere Cloud Account vSphere enumeration Image enumeration After...

Aug 2, 2021

Adding a Cloud Account in vRealize Automation 8.x , deep-dive

What happens when your adding an Cloud Account ? After we enter the information what's needed to create an endpoint and then we click on...

Jul 1, 2021

Important thing to keep in mind before upgrading to vRA 8.4.2

Few days back I did blog on the issue i encountered during my lab upgrade where identity-service-app does not initialize due to vRA...

Jun 26, 2021

identity-service-app initialization failure after upgrading to vRealize Automation 8.4.2

Click here for detailed analysis vRealize Automation 8.4.2 was release few days back and it had some fixes which we were looking forward...