<img src="/images/vRA-Product-Icon-Mac_0.png#center" alt=“vRA”;> Achievement Unlocked! Technical Marketing Architect, Cloud Management Business Unit! Representing vRealize Automation Today, I can finally announce that I have formally accepted and will be moving into the Cloud Management Business Unit as a Technical Marketing Architect, representing the vRealize Automation stack. To say this is a huge accomplishment is the understatement of the century. It’s corny to say outloud (or type on a blog…) - but the role I am moving into is my dream job, flat out. Read more

This weekend I discovered Packer from HashiCorp. And My World Was Changed…Just Way After Everyone Else I had decided to add a few more catalog items to vRealize Automation and realized that I didn’t have any Ubuntu templates loaded in my environment. I figured I would load up a couple builds - specifically 16.04 and 17.04. I hopped on Google and started looking for best practices around configuring a Ubuntu template and stumbled upon articles discussing automating template builds with something called Packer. Read more

On Our Last Adventure This is a continuation on of my post on vRealize Automation API’s located here - Introduction to vRealize Automation REST API’s Previously we looked at how to do some basic interaction with the vRealize Automaton API which mostly consisted of pulling data out from a reporting perspective and dropping it into a table to display back. This is cool, and can be extremely helpful - but now with that foundational knowledge we can start to push the ball further. Read more

I’ve had a few goals for learning this year. One of them has been to crack open the scripting world of Python. Knowing that the current version’s of vSphere have an incredible Python based API; but not being skilled enough to use it has been…challenging. Ultimately; I’ve wanted to utilize the API to create a number of detailed infrastructure level reports. I’ve created workarounds to complete these goals using vRealize Orchestrator - creating inserts into a SQL database that dump machine facts via custom properties. Read more