Step 1.0
vRA Prerequisites
- VMware’s vRealize Automation (vRA)
- vRA components have been configured according to VMware’s recommendations
- Refer to VMware’s Architecture and Design and Reference Architecture docs.
- If using vRealize Automation 7.3.0, upgrade to vRA 7.3.1+ (required)
- Refer to VMware’s vRealize 7.3.1 Release Notes
- Also refer to VMware’s documentation on Upgrading vRealize Automation
- Upgrading vRA from 7.3.0 to 7.3.1 will have no impact on existing SovLabs implementations
Please contact VMware support for assistance installing this upgrade if the target vRA environment is an HA cluster, or if it is a Production instance.
This install takes approximately 30-60 minutes and will require downtime.
The vRA 7.3.1 upgrade is provided and supported by VMware. Please direct any questions or issues with this upgrade to VMware support. - vRA has the following configured:
- Tenant (can be any tenant, including the root tenant, vsphere.local…)
- Compute Resource(s)
- Reservation(s)
- vRA Blueprint(s)
- vCenter has the following configured:
- Storage
- Networks/Trunks/port groups
- VM template(s)
- vCenter Customization Specification(s)
- Successfully provisioned a VM from vRA using a blueprint
Keep things simple by not using spaces or camel-casing for the following created for this install:
- Tenant name
- Users
- Group names
- Business Groups
For Clustered vRA and/or vRO, load balancing is configured according to VMware’s documentation: HA and vRA with SovLabs