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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.



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...

Arun Nukula
Oct 6, 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]...

Arun Nukula
Oct 5, 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...

Arun Nukula
Sep 15, 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...

Arun Nukula
Sep 11, 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 ***...

Arun Nukula
Aug 4, 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...

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...

Arun Nukula
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...

Arun Nukula
Aug 3, 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...

Arun Nukula
Aug 2, 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...

Arun Nukula
Jul 1, 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...

Arun Nukula
Jun 26, 2021


Rest Plugin exceptions after upgrading to vRealize Automation 8.4.1
After upgrading to vRealize Automation 8.4.1 you might encounter rest host exceptions 2021-06-11T03:17:53.826Z ERROR vco...

Arun Nukula
Jun 14, 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...

Arun Nukula
Jun 10, 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...

Arun Nukula
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...

Arun Nukula
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'...

Arun Nukula
Jun 8, 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....

Arun Nukula
May 12, 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...

Arun Nukula
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...

Arun Nukula
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...

Arun Nukula
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...

Arun Nukula
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...

Arun Nukula
Apr 13, 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...

Arun Nukula
Apr 8, 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...

Arun Nukula
Mar 23, 2021
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