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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, 2021

The maximum message size quota for incoming messages (65536) has been exceeded ......

There was an environment where virtual machine dispose tasks were stuck and they were repeating dispose tasks every 2.5 hours Agents were...

Jun 8, 2021

HTTP 403 exception when browsing various options under vRealize Migration Assistant on vRA 8.4.1

After upgrading to vRealize Automation 8.4.1 , when you click on vRA Migration Assistant and browse to any of the options you would see...

Jun 8, 2021

Cloud Proxy Upgrade failure due to "Failure: Error downloading manifest. Please contact your vendor"

One of the most common issues for Cloud Proxy upgrade failure is due to the provider-runtime.xml file not getting populated correctly or...

Jun 8, 2021

ABX actions are failing with "PAM:Authentication token is no longer valid" error

Symptom In ABX service logs you see similar error messages: abx-service [host='abx-service-app-5c578445f7-j2w6m' thread='parallel-47'...

May 12, 2021

Failures seen during implementing VMSA-2021-0007 (VMware KB : 83475)

Security build upgrade is failing because of space issue in /boot filesystem. Please follow the below workaround 1. SSH to vRB VA. 2....

Apr 13, 2021

There was a problem with Messaging service. Error retrieving rabbitmq status.

Seeing exceptions in the integrated components section of the system Diagnostics page.. Exceptions states There was a problem with...

Apr 13, 2021

Custom Resource does not reflect the parameter changes in the Workflow

We have a Custom Resource which has a Create and Delete workflows mapped to it in vRealize Automation 8.x Suppose there is a need in...

Apr 13, 2021

Duplicate VM get's detected but Original VM get's deleted when Content-Library Template is used

We had a use-case where user accidentally passed VM name which was already provisioned and existing on vCenter through vRA 8.x The moment...

Apr 13, 2021

Validations not being honored for Day-2 actions on Custom Resources

We have a workflow in vRO called "Add Firewall Rules" or anything for that matter. In the input form we have set a validation to one of...

Apr 13, 2021

Behind the Scenes: vRealize Automation Upgrade 8.2 to 8.3

I delivered a training recently about the process which occurs in the background when we upgrade vRealize Automation 8.2 to 8.3 Thought...

Apr 8, 2021

Unable to run deployments with AD integration in vRA 8.3 if OU path is more than 50 characters

If there is AD integration inside vRA 8.3 and then you attempt to deploy a machine to an OU relative path that is more than 50...

Mar 23, 2021

Unable to update resource elements in vRealize Orchestrator

We've recently seen issues while trying update resource elements in vRealize Orchestrator 7.x Some of the exceptions you would see when...

Mar 16, 2021

vIDM Inventory Sync fails after implementing workaround to fix CVE-2020-4006 (KB 81731)

Came across an issue where we see vIDM Inventory Sync fails after applying KB 81731 which talks about fixing CVE-2020-4006 vIDM...

Feb 10, 2021

AutoConfigurer cleaned up resource <xxxxxx>

AutoConfigurer is a process of deleting "RETIRED" resources from vRA 8.x environment. The moment it's marked as retired in the next data...

Feb 3, 2021

vRA 8.x PostgreSQL pods showing down ?

I was doing analysis on a problem where PostgreSQL pods were showing down. vRA 8.x deployments were stuck and not working as expected In...

Jan 21, 2021

Deployment failures are seen when cloud-init based config added to the blueprint

When a user attempts to deploy a virtual machine from a blueprint that has cloud-init commands in it we then see the following exception...

Jan 17, 2021

What is Cirruswave?

Cirruswave is a Cloud Enablement Platform that allows us to develop, document, test & deploy enterprise-grade, secure robust, and...

Jan 16, 2021

What is Application Modernization ??

Application modernization is the process of taking existing legacy applications and modernizing their platform infrastructure, internal...

Jan 8, 2021

Changing the IP Address of vRLCM after it's deployment

Is there a use-case where one needs to change the IP Address of vRLCM after it's already deployed and running. Let's discuss the...

Jan 5, 2021

Unable to "Cancel" tasks on certain deployments

I'll try to explain a certain use-case where we forcefully had to clean up an in-progress task from the database in vRealize Automation 8...

Jan 5, 2021

vRealize Automation 8.1 P3 deploy.sh is failing with Error: cannot connect to Tiller

Deploying vRealize Automation 8.1 P3 fails at the "checking helm version" step with the error: cannot connect to Tiller. This issue...

Dec 20, 2020

While trying to execute /sbin/ldconfig child terminated abnormally

Was working on an issue where vRA Upgrade from 7.5 to 7.6 failed due to an exception during the upgrade phase. As we all know vRA upgrade...

Nov 27, 2020

package horizon-service-rpm-xx.noarch (which is newer than horizon-service-rpm-xx) already installed

I was working on a patch implementation this morning and encountered an exception almost when we were at the finish line Exception...

Nov 24, 2020

Configuring a vRO 8.x Cluster

In this blog, I shall share the procedure to create a vRealize Orchestrator cluster on version 8.2 The recommended number of nodes that...