Running Ansible Tower Job with REST API

In vRealize Automation 8.x we have out of the box integration for Ansible and Ansible Tower directly build in in to a Cloud Templates designer. Still there is a way to run this integration as a part of EBS subscription. This way you will be able to detect any single Job failure and decide if …

Multiple Disks in vRA8 Blueprint

For MS Windows deployments I’m adding a multiple disks to a VM. This way I hope to be able to add second day operation for disk expiation directly on a device, which should improve user experience. The question is how to create disks input and then how to translate this in to multiple devices of …

[Quick Hint] Disable and Enable of vRA7 Services with vRO workflow

If you need to prevent people form deploying new VMs during a certain times. For example when one of your vRA third-party services are being backup and is offline. The easiest way to achieve this is to disable the services that contain catalog items which you want to prevent form being deployed.

Running vRO Workflows from Ansible playbook

I had a need to run vRealize Orchestrator workflow directly form my Ansible Tower.To do that I wrote a dedicated Ansible module that allows to run any vRO workflow form Ansible playbook. This is useful if you want to reuse automation you already done in vRO or if you are dealing with something that is …