The Virtual Arcade – Virtualization Reality

What’s new in vRealize Orchestrator 7.5

October 25, 2018October 25, 2018 - by VAadmin - Leave a Comment

Lots of new enhancements to vRO 7.5. Check it out here.

VMware Dispatch and the future of Automation Extensibility

September 5, 2018October 10, 2018 - by VAadmin - Leave a Comment

Check out my newest post discussing the state of Automation Extensibility and a peek at where it may be headed in the near future here.

Digging Deeper – Part 2 – Creating Dynamic Drop-down objects using vRA 7.4 custom forms

June 22, 2018June 22, 2018 - by VAadmin - Leave a Comment

Check out Part 2 of my Digging Deeper series where I demonstrate how to use external data sources to populate drop down lists in vRA 7.4 custom forms.

Digging Deeper – Part 1 – Custom Forms

May 16, 2018June 22, 2018 - by VAadmin - Leave a Comment

Here is the first part of my vRA 7.4 how-to solution segments. In this session, I demonstrate how to create a custom network selection dropdown using the new form designer. I …

In the lab – Terraform integration with vRA

December 20, 2017 - by VAadmin - Leave a Comment

Hi, I am currently testing the Terraform Provider for vRA and will have some integration scenarios posted in the next few weeks. Stay tuned!

Get Ready for AWS Fargate!

December 14, 2017December 14, 2017 - by VAadmin - Leave a Comment

Recently, at re:Invent 2017, AWS announced a new container service based on their existing EC2 Container Service (ECS). Fargate will enable AWS customers to run containers without having to manage …

New post on vRealize Lifecycle Manager!

November 28, 2017November 30, 2017 - by VAadmin - 2 Comments.

VMware recently released a no-charge appliance to help you install, configure, and manange the entire vRealize Suite! I take an in-depth look at how to set it up and new …

How-to pass variables between software components in a blueprint

November 25, 2017November 27, 2017 - by VAadmin - 3 Comments.

Check out the quick How-To video to see how to easily create smarter blueprints! http://virt-arcade.com/how-to-pass-variables-between-software-components-in-vra/

Using vRA to deploy to Amazon Elastic Container Service

October 13, 2017November 20, 2017 - by VAadmin - 1 Comment

I have added a video that show how to use the ECS plug-in for vRA to manage ECS objects like clusters, tasks and task definitions.

Created a how-to guide on setting up a WildFly 11.0 instance and demo application in vRA

October 13, 2017December 21, 2017 - by VAadmin - Leave a Comment

Hi, Just added a section on how to import and set up a WildFly 11. (formerly JBOSS) application server blueprint in vRA. Check out this link