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ARUNNUKULA
I am an accomplished product management professional with a proven track record of driving innovation and delivering customer success in the tech industry.
With extensive experience in product lifecycle management, I specialise in crafting strategic product roadmaps and developing cloud-native solutions that meet the evolving needs of customers.
My expertise spans identity and access management, cloud automation, and managing the full product lifecycle for VMware Aria Suite, where I lead upgrades, patching, and installations for diverse customer environments, including Fortune 500 companies.
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Arun Nukula/Ravneet Arora
Jun 13, 2022
Comprehensive Guide to Upgrade & PSPAK Implementation for vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.x
I wanted to explore what really happens in the background and understand the whole flow during upgrade and product support pack...
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Arun Nukula
Jun 12, 2022
Traits/Qualities of a Great Product Manager
I was reading this book "The Influential Product Manager" and came across few points which i thought are really important and it would...
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Arun Nukula
Jun 11, 2022
vRealize LogInsight Queries to track certain create/update/delete actions in vRealize Automation
ORIGINAL CONTENT Based on vRealize Automation 8.8 There was an ask on if we have any queries handy which can help us track certain...
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Arun Nukula
Jun 11, 2022
Upgrading to vRealize Automation 8.8.1
vRealize Automation 8.8.1 was released last evening and here's my experience in implementing in my lab. I've attached Upgrade runbook ...
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Arun Nukula
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...
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Arun Nukula
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...
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Arun Nukula/Ravneet Arora
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...
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Arun Nukula
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...
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![Who Logged IN and Logged Out from my vRealize Automation ?](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/3521e7_8de65f62728f4109af306c3a42ef350d~mv2.png/v1/fill/w_305,h_172,fp_0.50_0.50,q_95,enc_auto/3521e7_8de65f62728f4109af306c3a42ef350d~mv2.webp)
Arun Nukula
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...
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Arun Nukula
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...
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Arun Nukula/Ravneet Arora
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...
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Arun Nukula/Ravneet Arora
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...
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Arun Nukula
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...
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Arun Nukula
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...
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Arun Nukula
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:...
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Arun Nukula
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...
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Arun Nukula
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...
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Arun Nukula
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...
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Arun Nukula
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]...
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Arun Nukula
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...
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Arun Nukula
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...
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Arun Nukula
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 ***...
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Arun Nukula
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...
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Arun Nukula
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...
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