This cheat sheet will evolve over time to become a single source for all the things you forget, common questions with answers and anything else that might be useful. Look out for other cheat sheets for other products as well (coming soon) !

Operations

How do I shut down vRA?

1. Login to the vRA appliance using SSH or the console
2. Execute the following command ‘/opt/scripts/svc-stop.sh‘
3. When the command has completed, wait 2 minutes, or enter the following command ‘sleep 120‘
4. Execute the following command ‘/opt/scripts/deploy.sh –onlyClean‘
5. Once the command execution completes, shutdown the appliance with shutdown -h now

How do I start up vRA?

1. Power on all vRealize Automation appliances and wait for them to start
2. Login to the vRA appliance using SSH or the console
3. Execute the following command ‘/opt/scripts/deploy.sh‘
4. Once the command execution completes, ensure that all of the pods are running correctly with the following command ‘kubectl get pods –all-namespaces‘

How do I access the vRO Control Center?

Insert your vRA8 FQDN into the following link where shown and follow the link in your chosen web browser

https://<your_vra_fqdn_goes_here>/vco-controlcenter

vRA API Information

How do I browse the API documentation?

Insert your vRA8 FQDN into the following link where shown and follow the link in your chosen web browser

https://<your_vra_fqdn_goes_here>/automation-ui/api-docs/

Cloud Assembly

I Want Information on Cloud Assembly Resource Flags

Visit the following link Cloud Assembly resource flags for requests (vmware.com)

I Want to Read More About Cloud Assembly Expression Syntax

Visit the following link Cloud Assembly expression syntax (vmware.com)

Day2 Actions

I Want a Simple Day2 Action Example for vSphere

Visit the following link How to create a Cloud Assembly resource action to vMotion a virtual machine (vmware.com)

Security / Patching

Critical vulnerabilities in Apache Log4j (VMSA-2021-0028.9)

Critical vulnerabilities in Apache Log4j identified by CVE-2021-44228 and CVE-2021-45046 have been publicly disclosed which impact VMware products. What do I do? Follow this link

vRO Editor Hints

Comment / un-comment multiple lines

Select multiple lines and then hold down ctrl key and press k followed by c to comment them out

To uncomment, hold down ctrl key and press k followed by u.

Indent multiple lines

Select multiple lines and then press the tab key. To remove the indent select the lines and then whilst holding down the shift key press tab