The hits just keep on coming here at VMworld 2017. Lots of big announcements and great sessions today. VMware Cloud on AWS is a big focus this year and you can expect to see continued integration points between VMware and Amazon (as well as other cloud providers). Continue reading
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VMworld 2017 Day 1 – VMware Cloud Management Platform
My first session at VMworld 2017 was “What’s New and What’s Next for VMware Cloud Management Platform.” There are a ton of great sessions and overlap at this conference, but I thought this would be a good one to attend (and blog on) as they touched on a lot of things VMware is doing outside of itself.
A big issue in the tech field today is that the world is moving “open.” Open source, open APIs, commodity hardware, etc. Customers are very wary of vendor lock-in that prevents them from either using new solutions or moving to other solutions later.
VMware has clearly recognized this, as a primary focus of late is cloud and product interoperability. This is huge for a massive company like VMware who has TONS of proprietary stuff. Continue reading
VMware vRealize Automation 7.3 – What’s New?
vRealize Automation 7.3 was just released and there is a lot to unpack. I haven’t had the chance yet to play with the new version (hope to soon!), but I wanted to take a brief moment to call out some cool things I noticed. Here are the release notes (link) if you want to check the whole thing out.
vRealize Automation and UCS Director Interaction via REST API – Part 3
- vRA & UCSD Part 1
- vRA & UCSD Part 2
- vRA & UCSD Part 3
If you’ve been following along, whew! Last post in this series and likely the easiest. Let’s do a quick recap.
In our first post we basically went through the process of determining “how do I do what I want to do?” In our case that was making a REST call to UCSD and kicking off a workflow. We used the Postman utility to help accomplish this.
In the second post we went through the process of “how do I get vRealize Orchestrator to do what I want to do?” Here we used some existing sample workflows and made some modifications to do what we wanted, how we wanted.
In this final post we need to expose that workflow to vRealize Automation so that it can be consumed in a catalog.
vRealize Automation and UCS Director Interaction via REST API – Part 2
- vRA & UCSD Part 1
- vRA & UCSD Part 2
- vRA & UCSD Part 3
OK this is definitely the meatiest part of this series, but bear with me and we’ll get through it. Before we get started, it is important to note there are a million different ways to skin this cat in vRO. This is just one that I find to be fairly straightforward.
I will also fully disclose that this is not easy and at times very frustrating. Some of the vRO stuff is well documented, but some of it is behind curtains and seems to be (on some level or another) different than some of the provided API documentation. I say that just to say, if you are getting your angryface on while working through some of this, you are not alone. Hopefully this series will help alleviate some of that frustration! Continue reading
vRealize Automation and UCS Director Interaction via REST API – Part 1
- vRA & UCSD Part 1
- vRA & UCSD Part 2
- vRA & UCSD Part 3
You might ask yourself, “self, why do I care so much about automation? Why so much fuss over APIs?” The truth is the world is changing – this is true everywhere, and especially true in IT. Automation and APIs are changing the game, allowing you to answer the question, “what can we do?” with “pretty much anything.”
There are a lot of references to VMware vRealize Automation/Orchestration (vRA/vRO) and Cisco UCS Director (UCSD) REST APIs from the vendors, but I thought I would post some findings and methodologies around rolling your own integrated solution. I’m specifically going to work through calling a UCSD workflow with a vRA XaaS (a.k.a. vRO workflow) blueprint, but you can use this methodology to add any REST functionality through vRA for most anything. APIs allow us the opportunity for endlessly integrated solutions…as long as you’ve got the time and patience to develop them! Continue reading
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