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ARUN NUKULA
Arun Nukula is Technology Product Manager in the VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Division at Broadcom. His primary focus is helping customers and partners build, run and operate a modern Private Cloud using the VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) platform
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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