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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.



vRA HF Pre-Check Failure: xenon-service is not running and release-management is UNAVAILABLE
vRealize Automation PRECHECK might fail with the following exception where it states XenonService is not running and release-management...

Arun Nukula
Jul 28, 2020
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vRA Migration fails with Exception: Invalid data format
I was involved in a vRealize Automaton 7.x migration project, we did encounter failure at a point where we were trying to backup vRA...

Arun Nukula
Jul 25, 2020
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vRealize Automation Postgres database status is down and inconsistent
Even though all services are registered on an appliance and vpostgres status is actually up and running you might end up in seeing an...

Arun Nukula
Jul 25, 2020
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Enable TLS on Localhost Configuration as part of vRealize Automation Hardening 7.x
I and my peers were assisting a project where vRealize Automation 7.x was supposed to be deployed and hardened. Found out that there are...

Arun Nukula
Jul 2, 2020
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No valid endpoints found in the Management Agent
You may encounter the following exception during vRA 7.x patching While executing patchscript.sh file, following exception, is seen...

Arun Nukula
Jun 24, 2020
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vRealize Automation DataCollection schedules
Data Collection Status information is stored under dbo.DataCollectionStatus table of IaaS Database select * from DataCollectionStatus...

Arun Nukula
Jun 22, 2020
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How to export embedded Postgres DB from vRLCM 8.x appliance
To export the embedded Postgres database from the VMware vRealize Suite LifeCycle Manager Appliance Log in to the VMware vRealize...

Arun Nukula
Jun 17, 2020
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Mandatory Prechecks before a vRealize Automation 7.x Upgrade
Collating few pre-checks which has to be performed when your performing a vRealize Automation upgrade based on our experience Check 1...

Arun Nukula
Jun 12, 2020
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Find Java version being used inside vRO / vRA 8.x
Here's a small article to identify the Java version being used inside vRO or vRA 8.x As a first step one has to identify container id...

Arun Nukula
Jun 9, 2020
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Unchecking "Allow unlisted file name extensions" causes IAAS service registration failures
Request filters restrict the types of HTTP requests that IIS processes. By blocking specific HTTP requests, request filters help prevent...

Arun Nukula
May 21, 2020
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A Comprehensive Guide for upgrading vRA 7.x through vRSLCM 2.x
Here's the guide on how you can upgrade your vRA 7.x environment using vRSLCM 2.x For this example, I am performing an upgrade from...

Arun Nukula
May 20, 2020
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Deleted Storage Path still visible under Reservation in vRA 7.x
How do you recover / clean when we delete a datastore cluster from vCenter but it still shows up under Reservations of vRA 7.x Sharing...

Arun Nukula
May 19, 2020
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Stored Procedure to search all available tables inside MS SQL
Create Stored Procedure CREATE PROC SearchAllTables @SearchStr nvarchar(100) AS BEGIN DECLARE @dml nvarchar(max) = N'' IF...

Arun Nukula
May 19, 2020
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Required property obj is missing from data object of type ObjectSpec
Data Collection for a specific compute resource was failing on a given endpoint in vRealize Automation 7.x The exception was as below...

Arun Nukula
May 18, 2020
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Lots of DLL's under service/user account Temp folder which is used to configure DEM
One of the users of vRA asked a question on why do we see so many DLL's under Temp folder of a user account configured to run DEM's...

Arun Nukula
May 14, 2020
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Error returned by axis2: Error occurred in transport
There was an interesting scenario where Linux deployments where stuck at a point where it's Installing OS ( this is not a standard...

Arun Nukula
May 14, 2020
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Implementing vRA 7.5 HF 16 through vRLCM
Patching vRealize Automation is no less an effort. It needs planning and appropriate pre-requisite steps to be taken before one...

Arun Nukula
May 13, 2020
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high CPU utilization and outofmemory issue with vIDM 3.3.x integrated with vRA 8.x
Environment vIDM 3.3.1 /vIDM 3.3.2 integrated with vRA 8.0/vRA 8.1 and LCM Cause The initial analysis indicates there could be a...

Arun Nukula
Apr 30, 2020
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vRA fails to deploy from vRSLCM if Second or Teritiary DNS servers are unable to resolve hostnames
I have been attempting to install vRA 8.x for quite a number of times but I've never been successful due to a simple problem. Let me...

Arun Nukula
Apr 29, 2020
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vRLI Cluster unresponsive as / partition full on 1 node due to multiple .hints file
Recently we've seen a situation where the root partition was full on vRLI appliance. This was part of a vRLI 3 node cluster. When this...

Arun Nukula
Apr 29, 2020
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Roles in vRealize Automation 8.x
Roles define a set of privileges associated with users. These privileges are tasks that a user can perform. Depending on...

Arun Nukula
Apr 27, 2020
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vIDM Architecture
The identity service runs as a pod in Kubernetes. If a user tries to log in to vRealize Automation The identity service redirects the...

Arun Nukula
Apr 27, 2020
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Authentication and Authorization
Authentication Confirms your identity Verifies who you are Requires login credentials Authorization Determines what you have access to...

Arun Nukula
Apr 27, 2020
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Version table below vRA cluster tab showing incorrect status
I was working on a vRA upgrade that was being performed using vRLCM Most of the components were upgraded apart from DEM Orchestrator....

Arun Nukula
Apr 23, 2020
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