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Experienced Technology Product Manager adept at steering success throughout the entire product lifecycle, from conceptualization to market delivery. Proficient in market analysis, strategic planning, and effective team leadership, utilizing data-driven approaches for ongoing enhancements.

Jan 18, 2019

Implementing vRA 7.4 Patch HF8 on top of HF3 ( deep-dive )

There was a requirement for us to work on implementing HF8 on a environment which was running on HF3. I created a run-book to explain...

Jan 9, 2019

Docker Containers vs Virtual Machines

Note : Docker Containers are not Virtual Machines What is a Virtual Machine ? Let's explain each layer from the bottom Everything starts...

Jan 9, 2019

RabbitMQ in vRealize Automation

To understand what's the role of RabbitmQ in vRealize Automation , first of all let's figure out what's RabbitMQ RabbitMQ It's a...

Dec 31, 2018

Reverse Proxy in vRealize Automation

Understanding Reverse Proxy ( haproxy ) On vRealize Automation Appliance we have multiple services running simultaneously. An Open-Source...

Dec 27, 2018

Behind the Scenes : Installing vRealize Automation 7.4

This article is being written to help my team to understand what goes on behind the scenes when you install vRealize Automation 7.4 My...

Nov 11, 2018

Unable to connect to endpoint. Timeout occurred while processing the request

Test Connection Request while adding an endpoint fails with an exception Unable to connect to endpoint. Timeout occurred while processing...

Nov 7, 2018

CryptographicException - Keyset does not exist

Recently stumbled upon a problem where "Last Connected " status of IaaS nodes under VAMI was way off. Ideally "Last Connected" Status of...

Nov 7, 2018

Reconfigure action fails with exception " An item with the same key has already been added &quo

Last week was debugging a problem where user was trying to reconfigure a VM which was imported into vRA Version of vRA was 7.3.1 , There...

Oct 11, 2018

Upgrade vRealize Lifecycle Manager

At the end of this blog post, you should be able t Upgrade vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager to a newer version Locate upgrade related log...

Oct 10, 2018

vRealize Automation 7.4 HF6 released

vRealize Automation 7.4 HF6 has been officially released New issues resolved in this patch are User cannot see owned items when Owned By...

Sep 28, 2018

Behind the Scenes : vRealize Automation Upgrade to 7.5

We monitor /opt/vmware/var/log/vami/updatecli.log and upgrade-iaas.log during upgrade of vRealize Automation , it might be any version...

Sep 28, 2018

Requests stuck at "IN PROGRESS", even after a successful "APPROVAL" ?

Recently, was working on a interesting problem with vRA 7.3 where user's request get's into IN PROGRESS state after a successful approval...

Sep 24, 2018

Could not parse OVF at URL http://<<hostname>>/<<filename>>.ova -()

Recently, bumped into an issue where users were trying to configure a blueprint to use ImportOvfWorkflow. When ImportOvfWorkflow is...

Sep 24, 2018

Failures during vRA patch installation

Was working on a brand new installation of vRA 7.4 where we were attempting to patch with the latest one under KB 56618 While...

Sep 23, 2018

VAMI portal changes in vRealize Automation 7.5

Just upgraded my lab to RA 7.5, so thought to blog on changes in VAMI from 7.4 to 7.5 TIP 1 When you take an SSH session to a vRA node,...

Sep 21, 2018

What's New in vRealize Automation 7.5

vRealize Automation 7.5 released on September 20, 2018. Below is the list of new features and enhancements which came up with this...

Sep 21, 2018

Installing vRealize Automation 7.5

There isn't a great deal of difference in deploying a simple instance of vRA 7.5. It's same as in it's previous versions. Sharing...

Sep 10, 2018

IaaS node upgrade fails with exception "The archive period of resource <<VMName>> i

Once IaaS upgrade kicks-off in some environments you might experience an error stating it cannot continue upgrading ModelManagerWeb...

Aug 21, 2018

Migrating vRA IaaS database to a NEW SERVER

This article details on what steps are to be taken in order to migrate vRA IAAS database from one node to another There are three places...

Aug 17, 2018

L1 Terminal Fault a.k.a L1TF

Intel has disclosed details on a new class of CPU speculative-execution vulnerabilities known collectively as “L1 Terminal Fault” that...

Jul 27, 2018

!!! Rabbitmq reported unrecoverable state , recovery.dets corrupted !!!

Unable to start rabbitmq after an outage? Are you seeing a similar exception as below 2018-07-26T09:39:17.273888+00:00...

Jul 26, 2018

vRealize Suite LifeCycle Manager Introduction

vRealize Suite LifeCycle Manager a.k.a vRLCM is designed to streamline and simplify deployment and on-going management of vRealize...

Jul 25, 2018

Patching vRealize Automation after upgrade to version 7.4

VMware recently released HF3 as it's called internally to remediate few important bugs. Click here to checkout what bugs are fixed...

Jul 23, 2018

ehcache replication errors in horizon.log

Are you seeing similar exceptions in horizon.log? First step you do to troubleshoot elasticcache problem is to check if...