vRealize Automation 8 - Event Topics timeline

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To a lot of vRealize Automation 6-7 Managers moving to vRealize Automation 8 is a rather large adaptation of new skillsets.

What we have currently been looking at is adapt the new Event Topic model.

And there is a lot of Event Topics to follow, but I still feel something is missing.

Full list of Event Topics documented @VMware Docs

Compute allocationYesIssued before the allocation of resourcenames and hostselections. Both of these properties can be modified at this stage.
Compute post provisionYesIssued after a resource was provisioned successfully.
Compute post removalYesissued after a compute resource was removed.
Compute provisionYesIssued before the resource is provisioned at the hypervisor layer.
Note:You can change the allocated IP address.
Compute removalYesIssued before the resource is removed.
Compute reservationYesIssued at the time of reservation.
Note:You can change the placement order.
Deployment action completedYesIssued after a deployment action is finished.
Deployment action requestedYesIssued before a deployment action is finished.

Mike @vbombarded has done some good footwork that helped us along.

Tho we felt the need to visualize the virtual machine deployment process in a timeline fashion.




After this work was done I was left wondering about where some vRA7 Event Topics went, and would we need them, so far I think we will need to investigate more about how to go about a few steps.

Steps we used in vRA7 that i haven't quite figured where to place contains along the lines of:
  • CloneWorkflow.CloneMachine.EVENT.OnCloneMacineComplete
    In this step we did some steps with machines like 
    • disk.enableUUID
    • ignition.config.data for OpenShift
    • picking up MAC address from network cards and reserve them in Microsoft DHCP

  • CustomizeOS.EVENT.OnCustomizeOS
    Perhaps we are old school and still use vSphere Customizations













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