Teardown vs Deployment in vFabric Application Director 6.x

Teardown the Deployment

In vFabric Application Director, you can start the teardown process to remove the vCloud Director vApp and associated virtual machines or Amazon EC2 instances from the cloud environment. You can teardown a deployed application from the vFabric Application Director user interface or the command-line interface. If a deployment fails after installing one or more virtual machines that are part of an application, or if an application is not used, you can use vFabric Application Director to teardown the application. All virtual machines in the application are removed from their hosts in the cloud. Deployment teardown from the cloud does not remove the deployment record from the Deployments page in vFabric Application Director.

Prerequisites

1. Verify that your user account has the ROLE_DEPLOYER deployer role assigned to it 
2. Verify that the virtual machines that are part of the application still exist in the cloud. If, for example, your environment has a policy of deleting virtual machines after a certain number of days, the virtual machines might already be deleted.

Procedure 

1. On the vFabric Application Director title bar, click the drop-down menu and select Deployments.
2. From the list of deployed applications, select the application to teardown. 
3. Click Teardown in the toolbar above the deployment summary.
4. Confirm the teardown.
5. (Optional) If the teardown process fails, repeat the process. 

Above the task status windows, the task timeline shows the status of the teardown process. After the virtual machines are deleted successfully from their hosts in the cloud, the status appears in the Task Summary section and in the overall deployment status.

      After a teardown process is initiated, you cannot update the deployed virtual machines even if the teardown process fails and the virtual machines exist in the cloud environment. Ask your cloud administrator to teardown the deployment from the cloud. 

Deleting the Deployment

After you remove an application from the cloud, or if you do not need details for a particular deployment, you can delete the deployment from the Deployments page in vFabric Application Director.

Deleting a deployment from the Deployments page in vFabric Application Director does not delete the deployed application, vApp and its virtual machines, or Amazon EC2 instance from the cloud.

VMware vRealize Orchestrator security overview (1011305)

Purpose

This article provides an overview of security used in VMware vRealize Orchestrator (formerly known as VMware vCenter Orchestrator).

Resolution

Security in vRealize Orchestrator (formerly known as vCenter Orchestrator) observes the following:

• By default, any user belonging to the Administration group has full access to all elements.
• Permissions may be of the following types:
  
  

  Security Model	Permissions
  No access	Element is not displayed
  View	Element can viewed
  Execute	Element can be executed
  Inspect	Element displays workflow schema and source code
  Edit	Element can be edited
  Admin	Permissions may be changed on the element

• If no permission is set for an element, the parent permission is inherited.
• Permissions are assigned to LDAP users or groups.
• Users permissions are checked prior to groups.
• To add a permission to an element:
  
  Note: The element must be in Edit mode.
  
  
  1. Click the Permission tab.
  2. Click Add access rights.
  3. Click the desired permission types.
  4. Click the group or user.
  5. Click Save and Close.
  
  
  
  Source KB:-
  http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1011305&src=vmw_so_vex_ragga_1012

Log locations in VMware vRealize Automation 6.x Suite (2074803)

Purpose

This article provides information about the logs location and log file contents for VMware vRealize Automation (formerly known as VMware vCloud Automation Center for Server) 6.x Suite.

Resolution

The log locations are spread across multiple locations depending on the architecture of your vRealize Automation (formerly known as VMware vCloud Automation Center for Server)environment. These are the log locations and generic log content:

vRealize Automation Virtual Appliance Locations	Description
/var/log/vcac/catalina.out	tc Server Runtime logs, vRealize Automation webapp logs
/var/log/vco/app-server/catalina.out	vRealize Automation's built-in vRealize Orchectrator logs
/var/log/apache2/access_log	Apache Access logs
/var/log/apache2/error_log	Apache GET/POST Error logs
/var/log/apache2/ssl_request_log	Apache SSL troubleshooting logs
vRealize Automation Infrastructure as a Service Locations	Description
C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\vCAC\Agents\plugin\logs\file	Plug-in logs example: CPI61, nsx, VC50, VC51Agent, VC51TPM, vc51withTPM, VC55Agent, vc55u, VDIAgent
C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\vCAC\Distributed Execution Manager\DEMOR\Logs\DEMOR_All	Distributed Execution Manager logs
C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\vCAC\Distributed Execution Manager\DEMWR\Logs\DEMWR_All	Distributed Execution Worker logs
C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\vCAC\Server\Logs	Manager Service logs
C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\vCAC\Server\ConfigTool\Log\vCACConfiguration-date	Repository Configuration logs
C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\vCAC\Server\Model Manager Data\Logs\nothing_today	IIS Access logs (usually empty, but can be expected)
C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\vCAC\Server\Model Manager Web\Logs\Repository	Repository logs
C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\vCAC\Server\Website\Logs\Web_Admin_All	Web Admin logs
C:\inetpub\logs	IIS logs
Identity Virtual Appliance Locations	Description
/var/log/vmware/sso/catalina.out	ID VA tc Server Runtime logs
/var/log/vmware/sso/ssoAdminServer.log	SSO Admin Server logs Note: Not applicable to vRealize Automation.
/var/log/vmware/sso/vmware-identity-sts-perf.log	STS performance logs
/var/log/vmware/sso/vmware-identity-sts.log	STS logs
/var/log/vmware/sso/vmware-sts-idmd-perf.log	Identity service performance logs
/var/log/vmware/sso/vmware-sts-idmd.err	Identity service error logs
/var/log/vmware/sso/vmware-sts-idmd.log	Identity service logs
/var/log/vmware/vmafd/vmafdd.log	Identity VA logs
/var/log/vmware/vmdir/vdcsetupldu.log	Initial setup logs
/var/log/vmware/vmdir/vmafdvmdirclient.log	VMware SSO LDAP initial configuration logs
/var/log/vmware/vmkdc/vmkdcd.log	VMware SSO LDAP initial configuration logs
vRealize Application Services Location	Description
/home/darwin/tcserver/darwin/logs/catalina.out	Application Services tc Server Runtime logs
vMware vRealize Business Standard	Description
/usr/local/tcserver/vfabric-tc-server-standard/tcinstance1/logs/catalina.out	vRealize Business Advanced and Enterprise tc Server Runtime logs
/usr/local/tcserver/vfabric-tc-server-standard/tcinstance1/logs/auditFile.log	REST API requests
/usr/local/tcserver/vfabric-tc-server-standard/tcinstance1/logs/itfm-external-api.log	API logs
/usr/local/tcserver/vfabric-tc-server-standard/tcinstance1/logs/itfm-reflib-update.log	vRealize Business standard reference library related changes.
/usr/local/tcserver/vfabric-tc-server-standard/tcinstance1/logs/itfm-vc-dc.log	Data collector logs
/usr/local/tcserver/vfabric-tc-server-standard/tcinstance1/logs/itfm.log	vRealize Business Advanced and Enterprise logs
vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) 5.5.x Locations	Description
/var/log/vmware/vpx/vpxd.log	vCenter VPXD logs
/var/log/vmware/vpx/vpxd-alert.log	vCenter VPXD alert logs
/var/log/vmware/vpx/vws.log	Management Web Service logs
/var/log/vmware/vpx/vmware-vpxd.log	vCenter VPXD status change logs
/var/log/vmware/vpx/inventoryservice/ds.log	vCenter Inventory Service logs
/var/log/vmware/vsphere-client/logs/vsphere_client_virgo.log	vSphere Client logs
/var/log/vmware/vsphere-client/logs/virgo-server/log.log	vSphere Client logs
/var/log/vmware/vsphere-client/eventlogs/eventlog.log	vSphere Client event logs
vCenter SSO Locations	Description
/var/log/vmware/sso/catalina.out	SSO tc Server Runtime logs
/var/log/vmware/sso/ssoAdminServer.log	SSO Admin Server logs (only in 5.5.x version)
/var/log/vmware/sso/vmware-identity-sts-perf.log	STS performance logs
/var/log/vmware/sso/vmware-identity-sts.log	STS logs
/var/log/vmware/sso/vmware-sts-idmd-perf.log	Identity service performance logs

 

Source KB:-

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2074803&src=vmw_so_vex_ragga_1012

Multitenancy Example in vCAC 6.x

In vCAC there are few objects those are created at provider level that you need to add once in one tenant and will be shared across tenants automatically like Endpoints, Fabric Groups, Machine Prefix's & Reservation Policies.

VMware Configuration Maximums Guide Android App

If you want the Handy Configuration Maximum Guide for your android device you can download it from here on your device:-

https://labs.vmware.com/flings/vmaxguide 

Video:-

 

Note:- Flings are experimental and should not be run on production systems.

What’s New in the VMware vSphere® 6.0 Platform?

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Source:-
VMware Technical Whitepaper

VMware vExpert 2015 Award

The VMware vExpert program is given by VMware in respect of your work. Each of these vExperts have demonstrated significant contributions to the community and sharing their expertise with the world. The people who have being awarded vExpert 2015 status, have been released yesterday evening.

I’m incredibly proud to announce that I was awarded: vExpert for the second consecutive time. It’s a confirmation, that combining blogging about my daily life and work and sharing my knowledge has proven to work. This blog started out as an experiment to see how I could combine IT and Psychology and I’m very honored to have been selected as one of the few vExperts this year. It’s a giant boost to keep on doing this!

The official 2015 vExpert list can be found here.