vRealize Automation 8 Basics
This post will cover a high level intro to vRA 8.x For installation guide for vRA 8.x see install post For initial post install configuration see tutorial post Architecture vRealize Automation 8.x has brought about significant changes architecturally speaking versus 7.x. Gone are the IaaS Windows servers alongside the IaaS SQL database. All replaced with a Photon OS based vRA appliance Kubernetes based architecture. vRA has a hard requirement that it is deployed and managed(upgrades/patching cert replacement etc) via vRealize Lifecycle Manager(vRLCM). The authentication piece is provided by an external VMware Identity Manager(vIDM). As with 7.x vRA 8 leverages an embedded vRO instance & embedded Postgres database to store its data. You have two options when deploying VRA 8.x simplified from the practically open-ended 7.x layout options. 1) The first option is a small deployment consisting of: 1x vRLCM appliance 1x vRA appliance 1x vIDM appliance 2) The second opt...