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HOL-1906-03: vRealize Automation and Azure

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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 Azure, create reservations, publish a blueprint, request for a catalog item, and manage deployed items.

Connecting vRealize Automation to Azure

  1. Click on the Administration tab.
  2. Click on vRO Configuration.
  3. Click on Endpoints. This is where you will add an Azure account. 
  4. Click on AzureEP to review the configuration.
  5. Click Next to continue.
  6. Click Next to continue.
  7. Click on Select option under the Azure connection: field.
  8. Click on AzureDevTest checkbox to select.
  9. Click on Select button.
  10. Click the scroll bar to the right.
  11. Click on Client secret: field and type secret
  12. Click on the Next button.
  13. Click on the Finish button to save settings.
  14. Click on the Administration tab.
  15. Click on Approval Policies.

Configure Reservations for Azure

  1. Click on the Infrastructure tab.
  2. Click on Reservations
  3. Click on Reservations
  4. Click on New
  5. Click on Azure
  6. Click on Name: field and type Azure Development Reservation
  7. Click on Business group: dropdown list and select Development
  8. Click on Reservation policy: dropdown list and select Azure-Dev
  9. Click on Priority: field and type 1
  10. Click on Resources tab.
  11. Click on Subscription ID: and type b6375462-87g6-33y1-901a-d619c8ed9502
  12. Click on Location dropdown list.
  13. Click the scroll bar to navigate down the list.
  14. Click and select West US.
  15. Click on New under the Resource Groups: option
  16. Click on Name field and type RG1-devtest
  17. Click on Priority field and type 1
  18. Click on the OK button.
  19. Click the scroll bar to navigate down the list.
  20. Click on New under the Storage Accounts: option
  21. Click on Name field and type azuredevwestus
  22. Click on Priority field and type 1
  23. Click on the OK button.
  24. Click on Network tab.
  25. Click on New under the Networks: option
  26. Click on vNet field and type vNet1-DevTest
  27. Click on Priority field and type 1
  28. Click on the OK button.
  29. Click on the OK button below. You will see a new reservation created for Azure.

Creating and Publishing a Blueprint

  1. Click on Design tab on the top navigation bar.
  2. Click on the Dev-Azure-3Tier blueprint to review details of the blueprint.
  3. Click the Web-Server component.
  4. Click on the Build Information tab to review machine specifications.
  5. Click the scroll bar to review all available configurations that you can manipulate for Azure instance.
  6. Click on the Machine Resources tab to review resource groups and availability set configuration options.
  7. Click on Storage tab and you can see available storage configurations.
  8. Click on Network tab and you can see load balancing configurations. For this lab we will not be using this option.
  9. Click the App-Server component.
  10. Click on the Build Information tab to review machine specifications.
  11. Click the scroll bar to review all available configurations that you can manipulate for Azure instance.
  12. Click on the Machine Resources tab to review resource groups and availability set configuration options.
  13. Click on Storage tab and you can see available storage configurations.
  14. Click on Network tab and you can see load balancing configurations. For this lab we will not be using this option.
  15. Click the DB-Server component.
  16. Click on the Build Information tab to review machine specifications.
  17. Click the scroll bar to review all available configurations that you can manipulate for Azure instance.
  18. Click on the Machine Resources tab to review resource groups and availability set configuration options.
  19. Click on Storage tab and you can see available storage configurations.
  20. Click on Network tab and you can see load balancing configurations. For this lab we will not be using this option.
  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-Azure-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 on OK button.
  7. Click on Entitlements on the left navigation bar.
  8. Click on Development Serv... entitlement.
  9. Click on Items & Approvals tab. Review that Dev-Azure-3Tier is added under Entitled Items
  10. Click the Finish button.
  11. Click on Logout on the top right.
  12. 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 Azure on the left navigation bar.
  6. Click on Request button.
  7. Click on Web-Server component on the left.
  8. Click on Build Information tab. You can review the configurations attached to this component. You can also have the option to change some of the configurations on demand. But we would not be doing that in this lab.
  9. Click on Machine Resources tab.
  10. Click on Storage tab.
  11. Click on Network tab.
  12. Click on General tab.
  13. Click on the Submit button.
  14. Click on the OK button.
  15. Click on Requests tab on the top navigation bar. You will see that the deployment has been completed successfully.
  16. Click on Request 38 to review details of the deployment.
  17. Click on Execution Information to review details of deployment execution.
  18. Click on the OK button.
  19. Click on All resources - Microsoft Azure browser tab.
  20. Click on Refresh option on the top navigation bar. You will see the provisioned items that was requested from vRealize Automation catalog.
  21. Click on the azure-dev-web-0001 to review instances details.
  22. Click on All resources under the Home > All resources > azure-dev-web-0001 navigation bar.
  23. Click on vRealize Automation browser tab.
  24. Click on Items tab on the top navigation bar.
  25. Click on Dev-Azure-3Tier deployment to expand its provisioned items. Lets scale this deployment's web server node.
  26. Click on Dev-Azure-3Tier again.
  27. Click on Actions option on the top navigation bar.
  28. Click on Scale Out option.
  29. Click on Web-Server component.
  30. Click on Scale out to: field and type 2
  31. Click on the Submit button.
  32. Click on the OK button. Your request has been submitted.
  33. Click on the OK button.
  34. Click on Requests tab on the top navigation bar. You will see that the Scale Out task has been completed successfully.
  35. Click on Request 39.
  36. Click on Execution Information to review details of deployment execution.
  37. Click the OK button.
  38. Click on All resources - Microsoft Azure browser tab.
  39. Click on Refresh option on the top navigation bar. You will see a new web server, azure-dev-web-0002, that is being provisioned from vRealize Automation catalog.
  40. Click on the azure-dev-web-0002 to review instances details.
  41. Click on All resources under the Home > All resources > azure-dev-web-0002 navigation bar.
  42. Click on vRealize Automation browser tab.
  43. Click on Items tab on the top navigation bar.
  44. Click on Dev-Azure-3Tier deployment to expand its provisioned items. Notice the newly provisioned dev-web-server-0002 is added into the items list and can be managed from vRealize Automation.
  45. Click on Dev-Azure-3Tier again.
  46. Click on Actions option on the top navigation bar.
  47. Click on Destroy option.
  48. Click on the Submit button.
  49. Click on the OK button. Your request has been submitted.
  50. Click on Requests tab on the top navigation bar. You will see that the Destroy task has been completed successfully.
  51. Click on Request 40.
  52. Click on Execution Information to review details of deployment execution.
  53. Click the OK button.
  54. Click on All resources - Microsoft Azure browser tab. You will see that the resources from Azure has also been removed and destroyed.
  55. Click on vRealize Automation browser tab.
  56. Click on Items tab on the top navigation bar.
  57. Click on Logout at the top right.
  58. Click on the Go back to login page button to end the lab.

This completes the simulation on vRealize Automation and Azure integration.

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