vRealize Orchestrator provides a nice way to manage and interact with web services. I have always liked that you can add HTTP-REST API endpoints, configured with basic authentication, which doesn’t require a token to be requested each time they are used. It’s also quite useful having visibility of these endpoints in the inventory, which makes them easy to discover. It’s

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Please note that this post was created before VMware released the vRealize Build Tools fling. I have a new series which covers using these tools and in effect, supersedes this post. Please check out my new series on IaC for vRealize: Deploying vRealize Build Tools To Allow Infrastructure As Code for vRA and vRO When you are developing in a

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In my previous post, I covered working with vcac reservations and provided examples of how you can retrieve property values and also linked entities, such as networks and virtual machines. In this post I am going to cover reserved storage. I planned to include this in the previous post, but the content was becoming too large, so I decided to

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Reservations are created in vRA to allocate memory, storage and network resources to a business group. Business groups can consume these resources by provisioning virtual machines. In this post, I am going to cover the vCAC Reservation Entities and provide some workflows and actions that can be used to get information about reservations programmatically. This can be useful to gather

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