VMware Aria Automation Deployment and Configure- 8.12

Basic Overview :

The architecture of vRA 8.1 has been completely changed from the previous version 7.6. vRealize Automation 8.1 runs on Photon OS, with a broadly leveraged microservices architecture using Kubernetes and Docker. vRA is comprised of numerous services, running in separate containers, with a PostgreSQL database per container, RabbitMQ serves as the message broker.

Using VRA Easy installer ISO, we can deploy – vRealize identity manager, vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager, and vRealize Automation.

With vRealize Easy Installer, You can:Install vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager:

* Install vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager

* Install a new instance of VMware Identity Manager
* Install a new instance of vRealize Automation
* Register vRealize Automation with VMware Identity Manager

Let's Discuss about - vRealize Automation (VRA) , vRealize Lifecycle Manager (VRLCM) and vRealize Identity Manager (VIDM)

vRealize Life Cycle Manager: – VMware vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager delivers a comprehensive, integrated product and lifecycle management solution for VMware vRealize Suite.

vRealize Identity Manager (VIDM): – Identity Manager is integrated into the vRealize Automation appliance and provides tenant identity management. Identity Manager synchronizes with the Active Directory domain.

vRealize Automation (VRA) (New name – VMware Aria Automation): –VRA is a modern infrastructure automation platform with event-driven state management. It is designated to help organizations control and secure self-service multi-cloud with governance and DevOps-based infrastructure delivery.

Now Let's Discuss vRealize Component :

1.Cloud Assembly : VMware Cloud Assembly™ is a multi-cloud provisioning service that provides a cloud API layer utilized by the templating engine. Cloud Assembly also supports powerful custom extensibility frameworks, including the serverless function Action-Based Extensibility (ABX), VMware vRealize Orchestrator workflows, and event-broker subscriptions.

2. Code Stream : Code Stream automates the application and infrastructure delivery process with release pipeline management, including visibility and analytics into active
pipelines and their status for troubleshooting. It allows DevOps teams to leverage existing tools and processes with out-of-the-box integration.

3. vRealize Orchestrator : vRealize Orchestrator simplifies and automates complex data center infrastructure tasks, delivering consistent remediation of issues, extensibility and fast service delivery.

4.Service Broker : Service Broker aggregates content from multiple resources and platforms, including Cloud Assembly, vRealize Orchestrator, and native public clouds, into a common catalog accessible via a graphical interface or APIs. It provides a self-service model with flexible, policy-based governance to regulate service and resource consumption.

5.vRealize Automation SaltStack Config : SaltStack Config can easily define optimized, compliant software states and enforce them across your entire environment—virtualized, hybrid or public.

Resource Requirement for the Deployment of VRA , VIDM and vRSLCM .

Network Requirements:

* vRealize Automation requires:Single, static IPv4 and Network Address
* Reachable DNS server set manually
* Valid, Fully qualified domain name, set manually that can be resolved both forward and in reverse through the DNS server

Requirement for Ports for Product and Integration Communications

Refer VMware document for required :Ports and Protocols Requirements

Deployment Process :

1. First Download the Easy installer ISO which contain VRA,VRSLCM and VIDM bundle .
2. Mount the vra-lcm-installer-xxx.iso image on the local system and navigate to the installer file location.

3.Run the appropriate installer file (OS-dependent) within the folder to start the Installation Wizard,If you are using windows OS then navigate to win32 folder and run the installer.exe.

4. Once you will run the installer.exe file it will give you 2 option one is intsall and second one is Migrate .As we are doing the fresh installation ,Click Install on vRealize Easy Installer for vRA and VIDM.

5. First page after run the install setup you can see the introduction page about the VMware vRealize Automation (vRA) ,vRealize Suite lifecycle manager (VRSLCM) and VMware Idendity Manager (VIDM).

6. Read the End User licensing agreement and check “I accept the term of licensing agreement” and do Next.

7.Next we have to specify the vCenter Details (IP/FQDN & credentials) where you want to deploy the Appliances .

8. It will pop up for certificate warning, Click Accept to continue.

9. Now we have to choose the inventory location like on which folder or cluster and Datacenter will deploy .

10.Next choose the Compute resource from where these appliance can use CPU and Memory resource .

11. Select Datastore from the storage location and if you want to provision thin provision the check “Enable Thin Disk Mode” as per your requirement and Click next

12.Now Most important , We have to specify the network details .Move to Network Configuration and Click Next .
Network configuration ( IP Assisment,Subnet mask ,gateway and DNS Details.)

13. Configure a common password for all the products included in the installation and click continue.

14. Configure Life Cycle Manager virtual machine name, IP, hostname, and click Next.

15.Choose new Install New Identity manager (Incase already if you’re using VIDM in env, you can use existing VIDM; you can choose the import existing option), and specific username (after deployment, you need to login to VRA using an admin user account.

16.In the vRealize Automation Configuration window, you have option to choose the deployment type as Standard Deployment (Single Node) or Cluster Deployment (3 Nodes). In our scenario, we choose the standard deployment.
(If you want HA, you can choose cluster deployment)> Next.

* Also ,Configure the Environment Name, License key, vRAs node Name, IP and Hostname and Click Next.

Same page you will get advanced configuration where you can configure for k8Cluster IP range and k8S service IP range.

17. On last Summary page review all the details and submit to start the deployment .

18 .Monitor the installation progress from below Installation Process windows.

It will take some time to complete the deployment .

19.Once the installation is finish and LCM is deployed you can access it from the IP / FQDN and check the progress of the other component in detail.

Now we can able to access the LCM and configure the Environment .

1. Login to the LCM with admin@local as local user and password you have used in the deployment stage.

2.Select the Lifecycle manager operation ,you can also use the locker option to set the admin and root password vRealize suite component.

3.You can also login to VMware Aria Automation and VMware identity manager that everything is deployed successfully .

4.Go to browser and provide IP/fqdn of VMware Aria Automation and go to Login page .

5.Provide the username and password which you configured during deployment process .

6.Once you will login to page you can see the different services under My services .Validate all services is accessible for you to perform further process .

7.Now you can go to browser and provide IP/Fqdn detail of VIDM and login with admin and password.
Once you will be able to login you can integrate VIDM with Active directory or LDAP to syn user from domain .