Upgrade From vRA 7.3 to vRA 7.5 Step by Step

You can upgrade your current vRealize Automation environment to the latest version.
In-place Upgrade and Side-by-Side Upgrade
Depending on your current vRealize Automation environment, you can upgrade to the latest version by performing an in-place upgrade or a side-by-side upgrade. Review the information on this page to determine the best upgrade method for your environment.
An in-place upgrade is a multi-step process. You perform procedures in a particular order to update the various components in your current environment. You must upgrade all product components to the same version. You can only perform an in-place upgrade for these paths.

• vRealize Automation 6.2.5 to 7.5
• vRealize Automation 7.1.x to 7.5
• vRealize Automation 7.2.x to 7.5
• vRealize Automation 7.3.x to 7.5
• vRealize Automation 7.4.x to 7.5

A side-by-side upgrade migrates the data in your current vRealize Automation environment to a target environment deployed with the latest version of vRealize Automation. You can perform a side-by-side upgrade for these paths.

• vRealize Automation 6.2.0 through 6.2.5 to 7.5
• vRealize Automation 7.0 and 7.0.1 to 7.5
• vRealize Automation 7.1.x, 7.2.x, and 7.3.x, 7.4.x to 7.5

For Upgrade Requirements Refer this Document

Procedure:-
1. Connect with vRA Appliance VAMI (https://vRAFQDN:5480) > Username = root, Password = As Configured

 2.  Click on Update Tab > Click on Check Updates Button

3. As you can see under Available Update vRA 7.5 is Listed > Click on Install Updates

4. Click on Ok

5. If you know what's going on Behind the Scene > Open VAMI in another tab > Click on Update and you will be able to see the progress

6. You will see the message after couple of minutes that Reboot is needed to complete the Update

 

7. Reboot vRA Appliance. System Tab > Reboot > Reboot

8. After Reboot, Verify vRA is Updated to 7.5. As you can see in below screenshot, vRA is Updated to 7.5 but IaaS Upgrade is Pending.

9. Wait for Couple of Minutes and You will see the message "Upgrade Completed Successfully"

 

After Upgrading to VMware vRA 7.5 Storage is not getting populated in Reservation - Known Issue

Today when i have upgraded my vRA 7.3 to vRA 7.5. I have discovered one issue where storage was not getting populated in reservation but it was visible in compute Resources.

Then when i was trying to fix this issue, i found KB 59705. As it is mentioned in this KB it is known issue and the solution is to restart vcac-server service from vRA Appliance. I did same.

After restarting this service, wait for few minutes and connect back to your tenant. Bingo, Issue Resolved.

Top vBlog 2018 Voting is Started Now - Vote for your Favorite Blogger

It's time to Vote for your Favorite Blog. Eric Siebert  owner of vSphere-land.com launched it's popular Top vBlog 2018 Contest. Here <<<<<Top vBlog 2018 Contest>>>>> you can find more information about this contest and the last date to submit your vote is 15th December 2018. If you find any blog that is listed there has helped you, then spare 5 minutes from your busy schedule to vote for that blog to show your gratitude towards blogger.

Image Credit: vSphereland.com (Eric Siebert)

My blog is listed there too in Multiple Categories, Please Vote for my blog. If you really like the articles/info available on my blog, you can participate in voting to vote for my blog Virtualization The Future

 Voting Procedure is Given below:- 

                                                               To Vote Click <<<<<Here>>>>>

1. Select exactly 12 blogs from the given list.
2. Next, Rank these blogs, Rank scale is 1 - 12 where Rank 12 is the lowest and Rank 1 is the Highest
3. Now you can choose your favorite blogs under different categories, these are independent of General Voting. My blog is also listed in different categories.

(a) Favorite Female Blogger

 
(b) Favorite Scripting/Automation Blog 

(c) Favorite Independent Blogger

4. Provide your Name and Email ID (required only for validation of your vote). Don't worry it will not be shared publicly.

vRealize Operations Manager Sizing Tool

If you are looking for vROPS sizing Tool, Here is link of official vROPS Sizing Tool:-
http://vropssizer.vmware.com/sizing-wizard/choose-installation

No More External Platform Services Controller in Future VMware vSphere Releases - New Announcement

VMware has announced the deprecation of External PSC in Future VMware Releases to Simplify the Deployment Process.
Read more at here:-
VMware Blog Article Link

Validation of ESXi Host for Secure Boot Feature

If you are using vSphere 6.5 and later then you can enable Secure Boot Feature but enabling the Secure Boot on the ESXi host where some of the VIB's might not be from compatibility list will cause PSOD. Now the question is how to verfiy whether ESXi is ready for the secure boot or not? You can run a python script in ESXi Shell to verify it and command is :-

/usr/lib/vmware/secureboot/bin/secureBoot.py -c

Create Custom Dashboard in vROPS 7 - New UI

vROPS 7 has alot of new features. One of the change in vROPS7 is the NEW UI for Custom Dashboard. Now it has Drag and Drop Canvas for Designing Custom Dashboard. Let's see how to use it?

1.  Login in Product UI > Dashboards Page > Actions > Create Dashboard

2. Drag and Drop the Widgets in Design Canvas

3. Click on Edit Settings of the Widget to configure it

4.  Select What is needed > Save it

5. I have added one more widget in design canvas in this example to show object relationship. To configure widget interaction i have configured self provider mode as off

6. To configure Widget Interaction  click on Show Interactions

7.  Drag and Line from Providing Widget to Receiving Widget > Click on Save the Dashboard

Custom Metric/Properties Group - vROPS

If there are few metrics and properties those you frequently checks then rather than searching for those metrics in All Metrics Section, you can keep these metrics in your custom group and then whenever you need you can get important metrics easily.

How to Create Custom Metric/Properties Group

Redescribe vROPS Adapter

After installing or updating an adapter with re-describe process finds out the adapter capabilities and updates the Product UI with its details

Credit - VMware

Check Number of Objects and Metrics Collected by vROPS Nodes

If you want to know, how many metrics and objects collected by vROPS Nodes Since added in the environment? You can view this in Admin UI.

1. Login in to the vROPS Admin UI
2. System Status > In content Pane, under nodes listing area you can view this information of a specific node.

AWS Services and Categories

In this post i am going to discuss that what are services AWS offers.

1. For this https://aws.amazon.com
2. No Need to Login
3. Scroll Down and you will get the list of all categories those are offered by AWS. These are the Categories we have as of now but these are subject to change.

Now lets explore services available in each and every category. Click on Each Category to explore its services

(A). Compute

(B). Storage

(C). Database

(D). Migration

(E). Networking & Content Delivery

(F). Developer Tools

(G). Management Tools

(H). Media Services

(I). Security, Identity & Compliance

(J). Analytics

(K). Machine Learning

(L). Mobile Services

(M). AR/VR

(N). Application Integration

(O). Customer Engagement

(P). Business Productivity

(Q). Desktop and App Streaming

(R). IOT

(S). Game Development

(T). AWS Cost Management