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.
- 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