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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...

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...

Arun Nukula
Apr 7, 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...
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...
Arun Nukula/Ravneet Arora
Apr 6, 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...

Arun Nukula
Mar 7, 2022


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...

Arun Nukula
Dec 18, 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:...

Arun Nukula
Dec 14, 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...

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...

Arun Nukula
Dec 13, 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...

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
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