In this post I have drafted the below-detailed steps to create a basic vRealize Automation Configuration:
Create a Cloud Account
Change a Cloud Zone Configuration
Create a Project
Create a Flavor Mapping
Create an Image Mapping
Create a Cloud Account:
You create a cloud account to connect vRealize Automation to a resource provider.
Log in to your vRA portal
Under System Domain key in your credentials:
User name: configadmin or the username which you created during installing vRA
Password: Password
Click Cloud Assembly
Click the Infrastructure tab
On the Infrastructure tab, you configure the underlying infrastructure for your services. The Cloud Assembly administrator performs daily tasks on this tab.
When the Guided Setup Diagram prompts you, click CONTINUE
Under Connections, click Cloud Accounts
Click + ADD CLOUD ACCOUNT
Cloud accounts connect your system to resource providers. Multiple types of resource providers exist.
Click vCenter and create a vCenter Server cloud account and fill in the below vCenter details to connect:
Name: Enter the vCenter name
Description: Enter the Description for your vCenter
vCenter IP / FQDN: Enter your vCenter IP / FQDN
Username: administrator@vsphere.local
Password: Password
Click VALIDATE and click ACCEPT if you are prompted to accept a certificate
For Allow provisioning to these data centers, select the Datacenter check box
Verify that Create a cloud zone for the selected data center check box is selected
This step creates a cloud zone automatically for you. You must manually create the cloud zone if this check box is deselected.
Click ADD
Verify that the vCenter is listed under Cloud Accounts with a status of OK
Change a Cloud Zone Configuration:
You create a cloud zone to define subsystems for provisioning in a cloud account.
Navigate to Infrastructure --> Configure --> Cloud Zones
Cloud Zones are subsystems for provisioning your virtual machines and services in a cloud account.
Verify that vCenter / Datacenter is listed
Click Open
Click the Compute tab
Select Manually Select Compute from the drop-down menu
Click + ADD
Select your Compute resource
This configuration uses your compute resource as subsystems for provisioning in a vCenter Server Cloud Account. Any deployment using this cloud zone is provisioned on this compute resource.
Click ADD
Click SAVE
Create a Project:
You create a project to associate users and resources.
Navigate to Infrastructure --> Administration --> Projects
Click + NEW PROJECT and create a new Project
Projects organize and govern which users can use which cloud zones to deploy VMware Cloud Templates in your cloud infrastructure.
Enter the below details for creating a Project:
Name: Enter the Project name in the text box
Description: Enter the description for the project
Click the Users tab
Click + ADD GROUPS
Defining your users or groups is the first step in creating a project.
Click in the Search groups text box
Enter the group name which you want to add to the project
Select group-name@corp.local
Select Administrator from the Assign role drop-down menu and click ADD
Click + ADD GROUPS
Enter group name
Select group-name@corp.local
Select Member from the Assign role drop-down menu and click ADD
Click the Provisioning tab
Click + ADD ZONE and select Cloud Zone from the drop-down menu
Defining the cloud zones to be used is the next step to complete the creation of a project.
Clod zone: Select the vCenter compute you added previously
Provisioning priority: Enter 1 in the text box
Instances limit: Enter 0 in the text box
Memory limit (GB): Enter 0 in the text box
CPU limit: Enter 0 in the text box
Storage limit (GB): Enter 0 in the text box
Entering 0 for the limits gives you unlimited resources.
Click ADD
Scroll to the bottom of the page and click CREATE
Create a Flavor Mapping:
You create a flavor mapping. Flavor mappings enable vRealize Automation to deploy machines that are of standard sizes.
Navigate to Infrastructure --> Configure --> Flavor Mappings
Click + NEW FLAVOR MAPPING
A flavor mapping is a definition of virtual machine sizing
Enter QA-Small in the Name text box
Click the Search for regions text box and select vCenter / Datacenter
Enter 1 in the Number of CPUs text box
Enter 1 in the Memory text box
Verify that GB is selected in the drop-down menu
Click CREATE
Typically, you create additional flavor mappings such as Large, Medium, and Small
Create an Image Mapping:
You create an image mapping. Image mappings enable vRealize Automation to deploy machines that form standard templates.
Navigate to Infrastructure --> Configure --> Image Mappings
Click + NEW IMAGE MAPPING
An image mapping is a definition of target deployment images for a specific cloud account.
Enter Centos in the Name text box
Click the Search for regions text box and select vCenter / Datacenter
Click the Search for images text box, click Show all..., and select CentOS-Template
Click SELECT
Click CREATE
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