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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.



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...

Arun Nukula
Jan 8, 2021
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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...

Arun Nukula
Jan 5, 2021
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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...

Arun Nukula
Jan 5, 2021
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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...

Arun Nukula
Dec 20, 2020
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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...

Arun Nukula
Nov 27, 2020
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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...

Arun Nukula
Nov 24, 2020
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Being a Good Product Manager .....
#1 Listen to your customers, spend more time listening to your customers maniacally focus on their problems have more than a basic...

Arun Nukula
Oct 11, 2020
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Difference between Wifreframes, Mockups, and Prototypes
Wireframes, mockups, and prototypes are terms that are often used synonymously, and they are indeed quite confusing. This article...

Arun Nukula
Oct 11, 2020
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Behind the scenes: vRLCM upgrade 8.1 to 8.2
I always had a passion for reading logs and understanding what really happens in the background when a user clicks or performs an action...

Arun Nukula
Oct 9, 2020
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Upgrading vRealize Automation 8.x to 8.2
Before we initiate an upgrade on vRealize Automation 8.x to 8.2, we have to upgrade vRLCM to 8.2 Now once we have vRLCM ready on 8.2,...

Arun Nukula
Oct 8, 2020
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Upgrading your vRealize Lifecycle Manager from 8.1 to 8.2
VMware a few days back announced vRealize Lifecycle Manager 8.2. Let's discuss how you can upgrade your existing version of vRLCM to the...

Arun Nukula
Oct 8, 2020
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vRealize Automation 8.2 Enhancements
Support for Custom Internal Pods and Services CIDR. This can be done through Easy Installer vRA Install Wizard in LCM UI Update Internal...

Arun Nukula
Oct 8, 2020
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Comprehensive Guide to implement vRealize Automation 8.x Clustered environment
In my last post, I've discussed how one would deploy a vIDM cluster. Now let's see what does one need to deploy a vRealize Automation 8.x...

Arun Nukula
Sep 12, 2020
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vRA services health check failed. For more information, see Services page
Though all services on my vRealize Automation node are showing up as "REGISTERED", I would see an exception stating "vRA services health...

Arun Nukula
Sep 11, 2020
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RHEL8 Guest Customization failures due to missing Perl module
Recently, we did encounter a problem while trying to customize RHEL8 based virtual machine on the vCenter 6.7 platform From the above...

Arun Nukula
Sep 11, 2020
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Increasing Login Session Timeout value for vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager
You cannot change the Login Session timeout value for vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 2.x or 8.x By default session timeout is set to 30...

Arun Nukula
Sep 11, 2020
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Connecting to Rabbitmq POD and executing its status
Connect to POD kubectl -n prelude exec -ti rabbitmq-ha-0 bash Checking status rabbitmqctl cluster_status Type exit to get out of the POD

Arun Nukula
Sep 7, 2020
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Restarting Rabbitmq systematically in vRealize Automation 8.x
Distributed Architecture in vRealize Automation 8.x has 3 nodes. Each node is part of the RabbitMQ cluster. It is important RabbitMQ...

Arun Nukula
Sep 7, 2020
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Comprehensive Guide in deploying vIDM 8.x Cluster with NSX-V Loadbalancer
Finding a working configuration which helps to build a successful vIDM 8.x cluster was a huge problem. So thought of sharing what worked...

Arun Nukula
Sep 4, 2020
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Fetching vRLCM API Token and Executing API's using Postman
Every LCM Installation comes with inbuilt swagger documentation which can be accessed at https://<<vRLCM-FQDN>>/api endpoint of the LCM...

Arun Nukula
Sep 3, 2020
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Integrating vRA 8.x with vRLI 8.x
You can forward logs from vRealize Automation to vRealize Log Insight to take advantage of more robust log analysis and report...

Arun Nukula
Aug 17, 2020
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vRealize Automation 8.x and Google Cloud Platform Integration
vRealize Automation 8.x can integrate with several Cloud Providers As a cloud administrator, you can create a Google Cloud Platform (GCP)...

Arun Nukula
Aug 17, 2020
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How do login into vIDM database
As a first step fetch the password using below command cat /usr/local/horizon/conf/db.pwd Example:- labidm:~ # cat...

Arun Nukula
Aug 17, 2020
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Having Multi-Tenancy enabled in vRO causes vRA Upgrade failures during the pre-update phase
Failures are seen during vRA upgrade through vRSLCM 2.1during preupdate phase of vRA appliance upgrade Upgrade was being performed from...

Arun Nukula
Aug 3, 2020
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