Welcome to the technical blog of Sam Perrin.

Monitor Cloud Extensibility Proxy embeded Aria Automation Orchestrator (vRealize Orchestrator) with Aria Operations Cloud (vRealize Operations Cloud)

This blog post covers the process of creating an OAuth App within VMware Cloud Services for Cloud Extensibility Proxies that will allow you to monitor vRO (Aria Automation Orchestrator) via Aria Operations Cloud

Exploring Aria Hub Search and GraphQL

In this post, we will learn how to search within Aria Hub and query our inventory using GraphQL and Altair. We will cover search examples and the use of operators, comparison functions, and property names and values. We will also discuss using Aria Graph and Altair for advanced GraphQL queries.

Getting started with Aria Hub Free Tier

A short article covering the setup of a new account with Aria Hub Free Tier and basics of exploring our discovered Inventory

vRA/AA - Windows Cloudbase-init - Function Update

An updated example of Cloudbase-init that uses multi-part user data to run cloud-config and PowerShell code that uses functions for some deployment guarantees

VMware Cloud Foundation - PowerShell Reporting Module

A short post to highlight the PowerShell module for running reports on your VMware Cloud Foundation environment

vRA - Windows Cloudbase-init - Multi-part User Data Example

An example of Cloudbase-init that uses multi-part user data to run cloud-config and PowerShell code

Tanzu Community Edition - Azure Cluster

This post runs through the deployment of Tanzu Community Edition onto Azure - we will look at creating a Management Cluster, a Workload Cluster and the deployment of a demo application.

Tanzu Community Edition - Tips and Concepts

Tanzu Community Edition is a full-featured, easy to manage Kubernetes platform, this post covers some tips and concepts for TCE.

Tanzu and vRealize - VMworld 2021

VMworld 2021 provided lots of annoucements and updates across the vRealize and Tanzu portfolios

Custom Naming in vRA8

vRealize Automation 8 provides various levels and methods of applying custom naming to deployed virtual machine resources. This article explores these options.

Azure AKS - Failed to provision volume with StorageClass "default"

When deploying concourse to Azure AKS I encountered an error relating to PersistentVolumes

Triggering vRO Workflow with SRM Recovery Plan

VMware Site Recovery Manager allows you to trigger Custom Scripts as part of a Recovery Plan, this post explores triggering a vRO Workflow with an SRM Recovery Plan