Seeing as my vCAC 6.0 Resources page gained quite a fair amount of traffic and after several requests from people for me to update that list to include 6.1 resources I thought I would create a new posting to cover the new naming and for future releases.
Product Landing Page:
Release Notes and Product Documentation:
Compatibility Matrix:
Installation and configuration blogs:
Jonathan Frappier has done a brilliant series all about the installation in a sixteen part series
- vRealize Automation Series Part 1
- vRealize Automation Series Part 2
- Configure the vRealize Automation Appliance – vRealize Automation Series Part 3
- Install vRealize Automation IaaS Preparation – vRealize Automation Series Part 4
- Install vRealize Automation IaaS SQL 2014 Installation – vRealize Automation Series Part 5
- Install vRealize Automation IaaS Installation – vRealize Automation Series Part 6
- Configure vRealize Permissions – vRealize Automation Series Part 7
- Add vCenter Endpoint – vRealize Automation Series Part 8
- Configure Fabric Groups – vRealize Automation Series Part 9
- Adding Business Groups – vRealize Automation Series Part 10
- Creating Reservations – vRealize Automation Series Part 11
- Deploying Application Services – vRealize Automation Series Part 12
- Preparing vSphere Templates – vRealize Automation Series Part 13
- Adding Blueprints from vSphere Templates – vRealize Automation Series Part 14
- Creating Entitlements – vRealize Automation Series Part 15
Grant Orchard is just a guru around all things vRA, there are too many blog postings to mention so I have opted to rather just point to his own sections.
Reference Architecture Guide:
Distributed Installation
Sam McGeown has done a series around the distributed installation of vCAC 6.0. The method is exactly the same for version 6.1
- VCAC 6.0 build-out to distributed model – Part 1: Certificates
- vCAC 6.0 build-out to distributed model – Part 2: vPostgres
- vCAC 6.0 build-out to distributed model – Part 3.1: Configure Load Balancing with vCNS
- vCAC 6.0 build-out to distributed model – Part 3.2: Configure load balancing with NSX
- vCAC 6.0 build-out to distributed model – Part 4: Deploying and clustering a secondary vCAC Appliance
Preetam Zare has also done postings based on a distributed installation in a two part series.
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vCAC 6.1 (vRA) Distributed Architecture Installation Guide Made easy –[Part –01]
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vCAC 6.1 (vRA) Distributed Architecture Installation Guide Made easy –[Part –02]
VMware have also created a deployment guide for VMware vCenter SSO 5.5 with vRealize 6.1
VMware have also created a installation guide for configuring vRealize 6.1 with an F5 load balancer for high availability
Training
- vCloud Automation Center Application Services: Fundamentals [V6] <- Self Paced
- VMware vCloud Automation Center: Install, Configure, Manage [V6.0]
Automation of the Installation
- http://www.virtuallyghetto.com/2013/12/automating-vcac-vcloud-automation.html
- http://www.virtuallyghetto.com/2013/12/automating-vcac-vcloud-automation_23.html
Day 2 Automation
Jonathan Medd as created a brilliant series of postings around vCAC tenant creation
- Automating vCAC Tenant Creation with vCO: Part 1 AD SSL
- Automating vCAC Tenant Creation with vCO: Part 2 AD Users, Groups and OUs
- Automating vCAC Tenant Creation with vCO: Part 3 Install the vCAC plugin for vCO
- Automating vCAC Tenant Creation with vCO: Part 4 Creating a Tenant
- Automating vCAC Tenant Creation with vCO: Part 5 Creating an Identity Store
- Automating vCAC Tenant Creation with vCO: Part 6 Adding Administrators
Top orchestration blogs
vRealize extensibility is heavily reliant on the usage of vRealize Orchestrator so the below blogs are great sources on how to learn and use vRO to enable this extensibility.
- http://vcoteam.info/
- http://elasticskies.com/
- http://cloudyautomation.com/
- http://v-reality.info/
- http://www.vcacteam.info/
- http://www.vcoportal.de/
- http://d-fens.ch/category/technology/
Orchestrator Videos
- Intro to vCenter Orchestrator
- vCenter Orchestrator Install and Configure
- Using vCO to manage Active Directory and Exchange
- Advanced vCO
- Converting vCO Workflows to versionable code
- FREE VMware vCenter Orchestrator Instructional Videos [Updated]
VMware Hands On Labs
Videos:
VMwareTV have posted 30 videos covering vRealize features http://www.youtube.com/user/vmwaretv?feature=watch