In Part 2 of my vRealize Automation 8.0 blog video series, we have upgraded vRealize Lifecycle Manager 2.1 to 8.0 by performing a side by side migration leveraging the vRealize Easy Installer while importing the management of both VMware Identity manager 3.3.0 and the vRealize Suite 2018 environment.
In this blog video we will be using vRealize Lifecycle Manager 8.0 to deploy vRealize Automation 8.0 in a new environment.
Now as for requirements you will need :
vRealize Lifecycle Manager 8.0
VMware Identity Manager 3.3.1
A new Hostname, IP Address and a DNS record for the new vRA 8.0 appliance that the vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.0 will be creating.
Product Mapping is set with the install and upgrade binaries for the new vRealize Suite 2019 Products.
Deployment Workflow
Please note that the installation process in the video after hitting submit is fast forwarded.
If you happen to have an existing vRSLCM 2.x and vIDM 3.3.0 in your environment then you will need the vRealize Easy Installer to migrate your existing vRSLCM 2.x instance to vRSLCM 8.0.
Once your migration to vRSLCM 8.0 is completed you can upgrade your vIDM instance to 3.3.1 since its a requirement before you can install vRealize Automation 8.0 with vRealize Lifecycle Manager 8.0
Again as a reminder vRealize Automation 8.0 is installed, configured, managed and upgraded only through vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.0
Now as for requirements you will need :
A new Hostname, IP Address and a DNS record for the new vRSLCM 8.0 appliance that the vRealize Easy Installer will be creating.
To make sure that the password for the sshuser on the existing vIDM appliance is not expired.
To enable root access for SSH on the existing vIDM appliance following VMware KB 2047626
To Download the install and upgrade binaries for vRealize Suite 2019
To Make sure you have enough storage on the new vRSLCM 8.0 appliance.
Migration Workflow
Please note that the installation process in the video after hitting submit is fast forwarded.
NOTE (vIDM Upgrade Support ) :
Green-field vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.0 supports only 3.3.1 version of VMware Identity Manager to be installed or imported.
Older versions (2.9.2, 3.2.0, 3.2.0.1 & 3.3.0) of VMware Identity Manager will be supported only for existing vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager instances that are being migrated to vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.0.
Upgrade support from older VMware Identity Manger to latest is only available if they conform to vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager supported form-factor.
Versions prior to vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.0 allowed only single instance of VMware Identity Manager to be deployed with embedded connector and embedded postgresql database.
Upgrade for VMware Identity Manager within vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.0 to latest versions will only be supported if it conforms to the above mentioned form-factor.
Else the upgrade has to be performed outside vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager and Once upgraded, it can any-time be re-imported by triggering Inventory Sync in vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.0
On October 17th, 2019 VMware announced the next major release of vRealize Automation. it uses a modern Kubernetes based micro-services architecture and brings vRA cloud capabilities to the on-premises form factor.
What’s New
The many benefits of vRA 8.0 include:
Modern Platform using Kubernetes based micro-services architecture that provides
Easy to setup and consume multi-cloud infrastructure surface
Embedded vRO 8.0 Web Client and Orchestrator’s new release features
Deliver Infrastructure-as-Code using a declarative YAML syntax
Cloud Agnostic Blueprints
Iterative development of Blueprints
Self-service catalog coupled with agile governance
Collaboration across teams via sharing of objects
Kubernetes/container management
Deploy IPv6 workloads on dual-stack IP (IPv4/ IPv6) networks in vSphere
CI/CD pipeline and automated application release management
New Action based extensibility (ABX), which allows you to write lightweight scripts, using node.js and python.
Git Integration to manage all blueprints, workflows, actions and pipelines.
For more information, kindly refer to the Release Notes
vRealize Automation 8.0 is installed, configured, managed and upgraded only through vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.0 .
In the video posted below, I’am going to provide the step-by-step process of using the vRealize Easy Installer to :
Install vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.0
Deploy VMware Identity Manager 3.3.1 and register with vRealize Automation.
Install new instance of vRealize Automation 8.0
Installation Workflow
Please note that the installation process in the video after hitting submit is fast forwarded.
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