Before purchasing or installing the software one of the first things you need to understand is what vRA is trying to solve. Unlike what VMware has released previously, vRA is a very different and tries to solve the problems related to managing multiple cloud platforms and the end to end delivery of IT services. Yes, there are a lot of tools
Before I start this post I want to put it into perspective. Up until now I have been working in infrastructure roles for a number of years, specialising in virtualization (mostly VMware), servers, storage and networking. A lot has changed recently and we can’t go a day without hearing or reading about “DevOps”. I don’t want to get into what DevOps is
So today my heart sunk when I tried to log into the vRA 7 IaaS portal and was presented with this lovely message: Now, I had just recently attempted an upgrade of vRA 7.0.1 to 7.1 and failed miserably (more on that in a later post) so I had to roll back all of my changes (reverting snapshots, etc.) and