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		<title>Simplifying VMware VCF Upgrades with New Versioning</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 16:53:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Broadcom has introduced a new, standardised versioning approach for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), beginning with version 9.0. The aim is simple: remove confusion and make it much easier to understand releases, upgrades, and compatibility across the entire VCF stack. Previously, VCF versioning could feel fragmented, with different components&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Why Now Is the Best Time to Become a vExpert in the Broadcom Era</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2025 14:48:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[If you’ve been watching the VMware ecosystem evolve over the past year, you know it’s been a period of significant transition. With VMware now operating under Broadcom, the landscape is shifting—new strategies, new product focuses, and new opportunities are rapidly emerging. Amid all this change, one constant remains&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Moving House (AKA: Reclaiming the Data Center): The On-Premise SDDC Renaissance with Broadcom&#8217;s VCF</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2025 09:14:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[So, Broadcom is really pushing the VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) as the go-to platform for its biggest enterprise clients. This has sparked quite a discussion about whether it’s time to bring workloads back to on-premise Software-Defined Data Centers (SDDC) instead of keeping them in the public cloud. Sure,&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></description>
		
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		<title>VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle 8.18 Patch2 Warning &#8211; Watch Where You Step!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2025 08:43:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[On the 29th July, patch 2 for Aria Suite Lifecycle 8.12 was released. The release notes can be found here: VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle 8.18 Patch 2 Release Notes Unusually, on the 6th August, patch 3 was then released. Pretty soon after hey? Release notes for patch 3&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Aria Automation Patch &#8211; Whats Going On With The Build Number?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[paul_davey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2025 15:21:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s The Problem? This week a security announcement was published from Broadcom: VMSA-2025-0008: VMware Aria automation updates address a DOM based Cross-site scripting vulnerability (CVE-2025-22249) Affecting 3 products (VMware Aria Automation, VMware Cloud Foundation, VMware Telco Cloud Platform) with a CVSS Base Score of 8.2 I was working&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></description>
		
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		<title>SDDC Manager Server Fails To Start</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jan 2025 11:18:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s The Problem? So I went to an SDDC Manager server this morning and found that the user interface page was dead in the water. Figure1: SDDC Manager Says No! So, being a simple kind of guy, I decided to first bounce the VM. I gave it a&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Import Binaries for Aria Products into Aria Lifecycle Manager (8.18.1)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Oct 2024 11:03:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s Simple Isn&#8217;t It? A few versions back you could configure access to your myvmware.com account which meant you could easily download and import into the vRLCM appliance, the installable binaries for Aria products. This is no longer available. Figure1: You can no longer configure access to what&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></description>
		
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		<title>vCenter Server Wont Boot! Failed To Start File System Check!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[paul_davey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Nov 2023 13:11:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Issue After a power outage in my home lab I found that my vCenter server would no longer boot. An error in the console stated that there were issues with the file system and the System Check could not be started. Sounds pretty bad and I did&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Getting Started with Aria Automation Config &#8211; Part Four</title>
		<link>https://automationpro.co.uk/getting-started-with-aria-automation-config-part-four</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[paul_davey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[An Introduction to Jobs In a series of posts, I am going to take you through setting up the Automation Config product, manually enabling management of deployed systems, creating a custom desired state and eventually integrating with your Cloud templates. This specific post will take you through the&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Getting Started with Aria Automation Config &#8211; Part Three</title>
		<link>https://automationpro.co.uk/getting-started-with-aria-automation-config-part-three</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2022 12:46:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Manually Deploy Salt Minion In a series of posts, I am going to take you through setting up the Automation Config product, manually enabling management of deployed systems, creating a custom desired state and eventually integrating with your Cloud templates. This specific post will demonstrate how to install&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Getting Started with Aria Automation Config &#8211; Part Two</title>
		<link>https://automationpro.co.uk/getting-started-with-aria-automation-config-part-two</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2022 18:32:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[External Authentication In a series of posts, I am going to take you through setting up the Automation Config product, manually enabling management of deployed systems, creating a custom desired state and eventually integrating with your Cloud templates. This specific post will cover up configuring LDAP integration with&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Getting Started with Aria Automation Config &#8211; Part One</title>
		<link>https://automationpro.co.uk/getting-started-with-aria-automation-config-part-one</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[paul_davey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Initial Deployment The Aria Automation Config system allows you to define the applications, files, and other settings that should be present on a given system. Once configured, the system is continuously evaluated against a configuration and changes are made as and when needed. Now tightly integrated into the&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Getting Started with Aria Automation Config</title>
		<link>https://automationpro.co.uk/getting-started-with-aria-automation-config</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[paul_davey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In a series of posts, I am going to take you through setting up the Aria Automation Config product (formerly known as Salt), manually enabling management of deployed systems, creating a custom desired state and eventually integrating with your Cloud templates (and hopefully even more!) Series Overview Part&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Preparing An Ubuntu 22.x VM for Cloud-init &#038; VMware Aria Automation</title>
		<link>https://automationpro.co.uk/preparing-an-ubuntu-22-x-vm-for-cloud-init-vmware-aria-automation</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[paul_davey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Overview I recently wanted to create a template in vSphere that I would use from VMware Aria Automation. I did not want to use vSphere customisation specifications, but rather cloud-init (and just cloud-init). There are many posts out there all differing from one another on how to prepare&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></description>
		
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		<title>vRA8 Custom Properties &#8211; The Great Spring Clean</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2022 12:29:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Of late I have been working on a number of Cloud Templates that require quite an extensive set of custom properties to be set. These custom properties are used to enable further configuration to take place during the deployment process. Additionally, some contain computed values that are then&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Jira integration with vRA8 Python ABX</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 22:08:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I thought for a bit of a laugh I would challenge myself to create an ABX action to raise a Jira ticket when a deployment fails. In the end it wasn&#8217;t too difficult and it certainly shows that there could be some good further use cases for integration&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Outbound Notifications for LifeCycle Manager</title>
		<link>https://automationpro.co.uk/outbound-notifications-for-lifecycle-manager</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[paul_davey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2022 13:35:45 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[LifeCycle Manager]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[config]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://automationpro.co.uk/?p=1292</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[The release of vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.6 contained a new feature that may have flown under your radar, but I believe is a great addition to an already great product. Introducing Outbound Notifications! Introducing Outbound Notifications This new feature enables you to configure Lifecycle Manager to send&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></description>
		
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		<title>vRA8 Volume Expansion</title>
		<link>https://automationpro.co.uk/vra8-volume-expansion</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[paul_davey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2022 10:10:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[So, first day back to work in the new year and I immediately have a problem in my home lab with vRA8. Simply put, it isn&#8217;t behaving. With some investigation I discovered that /var/log was full (100% utilised space on the volume). What to do? What to do?!?&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Simplistic considered coding practices</title>
		<link>https://automationpro.co.uk/simplistic-considered-coding-practices</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[paul_davey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2021 19:22:32 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[vRO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[advice]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://automationpro.co.uk/?p=1274</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[Recently I have been asked about my methods for creating dummy data, coding styles, coding habits, how to &#8230;. well, just about every aspect of how I like to code in vRO. In fact, how I like to code in vRO is how I like to code in&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></description>
		
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		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">1274</post-id>	</item>
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		<title>Updating vRA 7.6 Management Agent Certificates</title>
		<link>https://automationpro.co.uk/updating-vra-7-6-management-agent-certificates</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[paul_davey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Nov 2021 11:38:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[7.6]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://automationpro.co.uk/?p=1269</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[Recently I have been helping a customer replace their self-signed Management Agent certificate in vRA7.6 with a new self-signed one (old one is expiring). To be clear this is the Management Agent certificate on the Iaas servers. VMware provide documentation on how to replace the certificate. But, to&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></description>
		
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		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">1269</post-id>	</item>
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		<title>Simple Testing of vRA Payloads in vRO</title>
		<link>https://automationpro.co.uk/simple-testing-of-vra-payloads-in-vro</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[paul_davey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2021 21:37:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://automationpro.co.uk/?p=1258</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[Something that I have had to do a lot of is working on subscription event based vRO workflows and ABX actions. The frustrating thing can be that you want to be able to develop in vRO using the vRA payload, without having to constantly ask vRA to create&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></description>
		
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		<title>ABX Send Email via MS Exchange 2019 with Python</title>
		<link>https://automationpro.co.uk/abx-send-email-via-ms-exchange-2019-with-python</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[paul_davey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2021 09:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[2019]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://automationpro.co.uk/?p=1240</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[If you have reviewed some of my other posts here on automationpro.co.uk, you will know that I&#8217;m a fan of the ABX functionality in vRA8. Something that I have been wanting to accomplish for a while is sending an email from an ABX. There are some awesome posts&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Panic! vIDM root password has expired &#038; cancelling ongoing resets</title>
		<link>https://automationpro.co.uk/panic-vidm-root-password-has-expired-how-to-cancel-ongoing-password-reset-requirements</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[paul_davey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Sep 2021 18:30:28 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[vidm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[VMware]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[expiry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[identity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[identity manager]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[infrastructure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[manager]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[password]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[root]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tutorial]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://automationpro.co.uk/?p=1226</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[The problem Today I wanted to kick off a &#8216;Product Inventory Sync&#8217; of my global environment in Lifecycle Manager before performing some upgrades. But, after a few minutes it failed. The error message suggested that I check to see if the root password had expired. When I logged&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></description>
		
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		<title>ABX Action &#8211; OpenSSH to a Windows Server</title>
		<link>https://automationpro.co.uk/abx-action-openssh-to-a-windows-server</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[paul_davey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2021 11:42:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://automationpro.co.uk/?p=1026</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[Recently I needed to create a connection to a Windows server and perform some operations on it. From there I wanted to run commands on the Windows server itself, and I didn&#8217;t want to have to worry about double hop WinRM issues from PowerShell. I wanted something flexible&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></description>
		
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		<title>ABX Action Fails: &#8216;You are required to change your password immediately (password expired)&#8217;</title>
		<link>https://automationpro.co.uk/abx-action-fails-you-are-required-to-change-your-password-immediately-password-expired</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[paul_davey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2021 10:14:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://automationpro.co.uk/?p=1020</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[Whilst working with a customer to provide extensibility through ABX actions, I came across a documented issue that I wasn&#8217;t previously aware of. Whilst testing an ABX action I received the following error message: abx-service [host='abx-service-app-5c578445f7-j2w6m' thread='parallel-47' user='' org='' trace='' component='GatewayActionProvider' method='convertExceptions:437' actionRunI d='8a7480a179b68ffb0179e552568b1e1a' context='87aad62e-0d90-4a61-b265-8b3720239a00' tokenId='8eb4435a-be1f-4921-9ca3-d809625dce4c' parentTokenId='8bdaa86c-1a01-4714-8c8f-9b1d41a5d98f'] c.v.a.a.p.i.g.Gate&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></description>
		
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		<title>ABX DNS management with Python</title>
		<link>https://automationpro.co.uk/abx-dns-management-with-python</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[paul_davey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2021 13:58:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://automationpro.co.uk/?p=1007</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[I have been playing around with vra8 actions for a while now and whilst it is a handy function, I have found some issues with the PowerShell implementation. However, Python based actions seem to execute just fine. Whilst playing around I came across what looked like a really&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></description>
		
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		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">1007</post-id>	</item>
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		<title>Backup Your Code Stream Pipelines.. With A Pipeline!</title>
		<link>https://automationpro.co.uk/backup-your-code-stream-pipelines-with-a-pipeline</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[paul_davey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2021 14:32:07 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Codestream]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://automationpro.co.uk/?p=983</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[Introduction In this post I will be providing you with a Code Stream pipeline that is capable of exporting all pipelines in your Code Stream instance, committing them into a GitHub repository and pushing the commits back to GitHub. &#160; Assumptions I have made a few assumptions that&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></description>
		
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		<title>vRA 8.3 REST Api Calls With Code Stream</title>
		<link>https://automationpro.co.uk/vra-8-3-rest-api-calls-with-code-stream</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[paul_davey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2021 22:48:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://automationpro.co.uk/?p=944</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[Introduction In this post I will be providing an example of how to make REST API calls from Code Stream obtain an API token from the vRA 8.3 REST api obtain a list of Cloud Accounts registered with vRA filter for a specific Cloud Account on vRA &#160;&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></description>
		
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		<title>vRA 8.3, Code Stream Pipelines and Hashicorp Packer = Automated Centos7 Template</title>
		<link>https://automationpro.co.uk/vra-8-3-codestream-pipelines-and-hashicorp-packer-automated-centos7-template</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[paul_davey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2021 13:01:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://automationpro.co.uk/?p=895</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[Introduction In this post I will be detailing a simple Code Stream pipeline that will build a new Centos7 template using Packer. The key points to this blog post are as follows: Use of Code Stream pipelines to organise sequential and parallel tasks Use of Packer to create&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Extensibility &#038; PowerShell &#8211; Playing the Property Game</title>
		<link>https://automationpro.co.uk/extensibility-powershell-playing-the-property-game</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[paul_davey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2020 22:26:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://automationpro.co.uk/?p=859</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[Recently I have been having some fun and games with vRA 8.2, in particular, with the extensibility capabilities. With the introduction of PowerShell support for vRA actions, I thought I would have a little play and see what I could break. I&#8217;m On A MetaData Hunt.. Ok, so&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></description>
		
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		<title>NSX-T Error after installation &#8211; could not set root and admin passwords</title>
		<link>https://automationpro.co.uk/nsx-t-error-after-installation-could-not-set-root-and-admin-passwords</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[paul_davey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2020 21:24:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[After deploying the NSX-T manager in my lab (I have a project coming up which will require me to automate some of the NSX-T configuration) I found that appliance had not installed properly. The services were not started correctly, no web UI and errors in the console about&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Terraform &#8211; In Action with VMware vRA 8.x</title>
		<link>https://automationpro.co.uk/terraform-in-action-with-vmware-vra-8-x</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[paul_davey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Of late I have been playing with Terraform and the vRA 8 provider. Although I have found quite a few bugs with the provider (I&#8217;ll log those soon) it certainly is a great start! I have captured a quick demo below where I configure settings on a brand&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Postman Samples For vRA 8</title>
		<link>https://automationpro.co.uk/postman-samples-for-vra-8</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[paul_davey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2020 13:28:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://automationpro.co.uk/?p=830</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[Attached to this post you will find a JSON file that can be imported into Postman.  The import will give you a collection called &#8216;AutomationPro-vRA8&#8217; which contains 19 example requests for using against a VMware vRA 8 install. Although there are many more requests that can be made,&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></description>
		
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		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">830</post-id>	</item>
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		<title>VMware vRA8 &#8211; Are People Missing The Point?</title>
		<link>https://automationpro.co.uk/vmware-vra8-are-people-missing-the-point</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[paul_davey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Feb 2020 10:42:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Since the announcement of VMware vRealize 8, migration has been a popular topic. I don&#8217;t mean deployment of vRA8 itself; that is handled [editor: very nicely I might add] by the new version of VMware Lifecycle Manager. Follow the wizard and sooner rather than later you will have&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></description>
		
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		<title>VMware vRA8 &#8211; Adding Microsoft Azure As A Cloud Zone</title>
		<link>https://automationpro.co.uk/adding-ms-azure-as-a-cloud-zone</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[paul_davey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Feb 2020 23:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[VMware vRealize Automation 8 is a leap forwards and certainly a far cry from what we all knew as vRealize Automation 7.x. A new code base with a new look, if you have any familiarity with VMware vRealize Automation Cloud (formerly Cloud Automation Services) software as a service&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></description>
		
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		<title>vRA: To destroy or not to destroy&#8230;</title>
		<link>https://automationpro.co.uk/vra-to-destroy-or-not-to-destroy</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[paul_davey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jun 2019 08:22:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I got caught out last week by something that I had not come across before. A customer has an environment comprised of vSphere, vRA, vRO.. the usual suspects. vRA and vRO and associated IAAS roles were all duplicated and sat behind a load balancer. Anyway, whilst re-writing some&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></description>
		
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		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">586</post-id>	</item>
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		<title>LogManager &#8211; Yet Another VMware vRO Logging Action</title>
		<link>https://automationpro.co.uk/logmanager-yet-another-vmware-vro-logging-action</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[paul_davey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2019 18:51:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Note: The download package has been updated with a new version of the action. The action now includes the workflow id, the path to the workflow and the current workflow execution token id to help tally logs sent to a webservice with an execution context on the server.&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Automating Office365 with VMware vRO &#8211; Part Three</title>
		<link>https://automationpro.co.uk/automating-office365-with-vmware-vro-part-three</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[paul_davey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2019 10:47:03 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[vRO]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://automationpro.co.uk/?p=387</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[Note: Please ensure you have read Part One and Part Two in this series before continuing Recap In Part Two we Reader Activity Review 1. We successfully created our first action. 2. We configured the input for the action. 3. We configured our output, or return value for&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Automating Office365 with VMware vRO &#8211; Part Two</title>
		<link>https://automationpro.co.uk/automating-office365-with-vmware-vro-part-two</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[paul_davey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2018 13:41:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Note: Please ensure you have read Part One in this series before continuing Recap In Part One we Reader Activity Review 1. Became familiar with the Microsoft Graph API. 2. Tested the API using the Graph Explorer. 3. Became familiar with the Graph API Reference guide. 4. Registered&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Automating Office365 with VMware vRO &#8211; Part One</title>
		<link>https://automationpro.co.uk/automating-office365-with-vmware-vro-part-one</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[paul_davey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2018 13:05:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; Recently I have been working on projects where I have been asked to automate actions within Office365. An example of this is to create a new user. Thankfully, Microsoft have the great Microsoft.Graph API that helps with this. Did you know that the Graph API has been&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Configuration Element to Json Transformer</title>
		<link>https://automationpro.co.uk/configuration-element-to-json-transformer</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[paul_davey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2018 09:57:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I love using Configuration Elements in VMware vRO to store repetitive information. What I don&#8217;t like is making multiple calls to get information back or making a call which pulls back a load of data that I then have to man handle through my flow to where I&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></description>
		
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