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HOL-1906-03: vRealize Automation and VMC on AWS

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This part of the lab is presented as a Hands-on Labs Interactive Simulation. This will allow you to experience steps which are too time-consuming or resource intensive to do live in the lab environment. In this simulation, you can use the software interface as if you are interacting with a live environment.

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In this simulation, vRealize Automation  has already been deployed and setup.  You will complete the configuration to integrate VMware Cloud on AWS, create fabric groups, assign reservations, publish a blueprint, request for a catalog item, and manage deployed items.

Connecting vRealize Automation to VMware Cloud on AWS

  1. Click on the Infrastructure tab.
  2. Click on Endpoints.
  3. Click on Endpoints. This is where you will add a VMware Cloud on AWS account. Let’s take a look at VMware Cloud on AWS configuration first.
  4. Click on the VMware Cloud on AWS browser tab.
  5. Click on Open vCenter to log in to vCenter SDDC in VMware Cloud on AWS
  6. Click on Open vCenter.
  7. Click on User name: field and enter administrator@cmbu.local
  8. Click on Password: field and enter VMware1!
  9. Click on the Login button. 
  10. Click on SDDC-Datacenter at the left navigation bar to review the vCenter SDDC environment.
  11. Click on Cluster-1 to expand the cluster view.
  12. Click on Compute-Resource to expand the resource pool view
  13. Click the scroll bar to scroll to the bottom of the screen, which allows you to view the current virtual machines running.
  14. Click on the vRealize Automation browser tab to switch back to vRealize Automation.
  15. Click on VMC-vCenter to review the configuration.
  16. Click on User name: field and type administrator@cmbu.local
  17. Click on Password: field and type VMware1!
  18. Click on Test Connection button.
  19. Click OK button.

Configure Fabric Groups and Reservations

  1. Click on Fabric Groups on the left navigation bar.
  2. Click VMC Development
  3. Click on Edit option.
  4. Click the scroll bar to scroll down.
  5. Click the scroll bar under Compute Resources: to view a list of compute resources that we are allowed to provision into.
  6. Click on Cluster-1 to select the vCenter SDDC cluster to provision into.
  7. Click the OK button.
  8. Click on Infrastructure on the left navigation bar.
  9. Click on Compute Resources
  10. Click on Compute Resources
  11. Click on Cluster-1 compute resources.
  12. Click on Edit option to review some basic settings of Cluster-1.
  13. Click on Configuration tab to review storage configuration.
  14. Click OK button.
  15. Click on Cluster-1 compute resources.
  16. Click the New Reservation option.
  17. Click on Name: field and type VMC Developement Reservation
  18. Click on Business group: dropdown list and select Development
  19. Click on Reservation policy: dropdown list and select VMC-Dev
  20. Click on Priority: field and type 1
  21. Click on Resources tab.
  22. Click on This Reservation field under Memory(GB): and type 16.
  23. Click on WorkloadData... checkbox under Storage (GB): option.
  24. Click on This Reservation Reserved field and type 500
  25. Click on Priority and type 1
  26. Click on the OK button.
  27. Click on the Resource pool: dropdown list and select Compute-ResourcePool option.
  28. Click on Network tab.
  29. Click on sddc-cgw-10.72.6.0%2f24 checkbox under Network:
  30. Click on the dropdown list and select VMC-External option.
  31. Click on Properties tab.
  32. Click on New under Custom properties: option.
  33. Click on Name field and type vmware.virtualcenter.folder
  34. Click on Value field and type Workloads
  35. Click on the OK button.
  36. Click on the OK button to save the reservation configuration.
  37. Click on the X icon on the top that says Success Your reservation with name VMC Developement Reservation is saved

Creating and Publishing a Blueprint

  1. Click on Design tab on the top navigation bar.
  2. Click on the Dev-VMC-3Tier blueprint to review details of the blueprint.
  3. Click the web-svr component.
  4. Click on Reservation policy: dropdown list and select VMC-Dev option.
  5. Click on the Build Information tab to review machine specifications.
  6. Click on the Machine Resources tab to review minumum and maximum configuration details.
  7. Click on Storage tab to review storage configuration.
  8. Click on Network tab to review network configuration.
  9. Click the app-svr component.
  10. Click on Reservation policy: dropdown list and select VMC-Dev option.
  11. Click on the Build Information tab to review machine specifications.
  12. Click on the Machine Resources tab to review minumum and maximum configuration details.
  13. Click on Storage tab to review storage configuration.
  14. Click on Network tab to review network configuration.
  15. Click the db-svr component.
  16. Click on Reservation policy: dropdown list and select VMC-Dev option.
  17. Click on the Build Information tab to review machine specifications.
  18. Click on the Machine Resources tab to review minumum and maximum configuration details.
  19. Click on Storage tab to review storage configuration.
  20. Click on Network tab to review network configuration.
  21. Click the Finish button to save the blueprint.
  22. Click on the X icon on the top that says Success Your blueprint is saved in draft state. You must publish your blueprint before it can be reused or placed in a catalog service
  23. Click on the Publish option to publish the blueprint to catalog service.
  24. Click on the X icon on the top that says Success Selected items were successfully published

Catalog Management and Entitlements

  1. Click on the Administration tab on the top navigation bar.
  2. Click on Catalog Management option on the left navigation bar
  3. Click on Catalog Items option on the left navigation bar.
  4. Click on Dev-VMC-3Tier catalog item.
  5. Click the scroll bar to scroll to the bottom of the screen, which shows you the details of the catalog item.
  6. Click the OK button.
  7. Click on Entitlements on the left navigation bar.
  8. Click on Development Serv... entitlement.
  9. Click Manage vCenter Servers
  10. Click on Items & Approvals tab.
  11. Click on the + sign beside Entitled Items
  12. Click on Dev-VMC-3Tier checkbox option.
  13. Click the OK button.
  14. Click the Finish button.
  15. Click on Logout on the top right.
  16. Click on Go back to login page button.

Requesting and managing a Catalog Item

  1. Click on username and type devuser
  2. Click on password and type VMware1!
  3. Click the Sign in button.
  4. Click the Catalog tab.
  5. Click on VMware Cloud on AWS on the left navigation bar.
  6. Click on Request button.
  7. Click on Description: field and type Development workload
  8. Click on Reason for request: field and type Testing
  9. Click on the web-svr icon on the left to review request details of instance.
  10. Click on the app-svr icon on the left to review request details of instance.
  11. Click on the db-svr icon on the left to review request details of instance.
  12. Click on the Submit button.
  13. Click on the OK button.
  14. Click on Requests tab on the top navigation bar. You will see that the deployment has been completed successfully.
  15. Click on Request 28 to review details of the deployment.
  16. Click on Execution Information to review details of deployment execution.
  17. Click on the OK button.
  18. Click on vSphere - vcenter.sddc-3 browser tab.
  19. Click on VMCDev-009 virtual machine on the left to review the instance deployed from vRealize Automation.
  20. Click on VMCDev-010 virtual machine on the left to review the instance deployed from vRealize Automation.
  21. Click on VMCDev-011 virtual machine on the left to review the instance deployed from vRealize Automation.
  22. Click on vRealize Automation browser tab.
  23. Click on Items tab on the top navigation bar.
  24. Click on Dev-VMC-3T deployment to expand its provisioned items.
  25. Click on the first component db-svr to look at details of the machine.
  26. Click on the Storage tab.
  27. Click on the Network tab.
  28. Click on the Reconfigure option under Actions: on the right navigation bar.
  29. Click on CPUs: field and type 2
  30. Click on Memory (MB): and type 4096
  31. Click on Execution tab.
  32. Click on the Submit button.
  33. Click on the OK button.
  34. Click on Requests tab on the top navigation bar. You will see that the Reconfigure task has been completed successfully.
  35. Click on Items tab on the top navigation bar.
  36. Click on Dev-VMC-3Tier-11126640 deployment to expand on provisioned items. 
  37. Click on VMCDev-011 to review changes made. You will see that the CPU and Memory has been modified accordingly.
  38. Click on vSphere - VMCDev-011 browser tab
  39. Click on VM Hardware to expand the machine configuration. You will see that the CPU and Memory has been changed accordingly.
  40. Click on vRealize Automation browser tab.
  41. Click the scroll bar to scroll down to view the rest of the item details.
  42. Click on the Close button.
  43. Click on Dev-VMC-3Tier-11126640 deployment. 
  44. Click on Scale Out option under Actions: on the right navigation bar.
  45. Click on web-svr icon on the left navigation bar. Let’s scale the web server nodes.
  46. Click on Scale out to: field and type 2
  47. Click on the Submit button.
  48. Click on the OK button.
  49. Click on the OK button.
  50. Click on Requests tab on the top navigation bar. You will see that the Scale out task has been completed successfully.
  51. Click on Request 30 to review details of the request.
  52. Click on Execution Information to review details of deployment execution.
  53. Click on the OK button.
  54. Click on Items tab on the top navigation bar.
  55. Click on Dev-VMC-3Tier-11126640 deployment. You will see that a new web node has been added.
  56. Click on VMCDev-012 to have a look at the item details.
  57. Click on vSphere - vcenter.sddc-3 browser tab.
  58. Click on VMCDev-012 virtual machine on the left to review the additional web node deployed from vRealize Automation
  59. Click on vRealize Automation browser tab.
  60. Click the scroll bar to scroll down to view the rest of the item details.
  61. Click on the Close button
  62. Click on Dev-VMC-3Tier-11126640 deployment.
  63. Click on Destroy option under Actions: on the right navigation bar.
  64. Click on the Reasons tab.
  65. Click on Reasons tab and type Testing completed
  66. Click on the Submit button.
  67. Click on the OK button.
  68. Click on Requests tab on the top navigation bar. You will see that the Destroy task has been completed successfully.
  69. Click on Request 31 to review details of the request
  70. Click on Execution Information to review details of deployment execution.
  71. Click on the OK button.
  72. Click on Logout at the top right.
  73. Click on the Go back to login page button to end the lab.

This completes the simulation on vRealize Automation and VMware Cloud on AWS integration.

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