Celebrating 5 years of vRealize Automation 7

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It surely has been some interesting 5 years.

Some of what i learned these years:

  • Logging is truly a form of art
  • Never assume a 3rd party application is working
  • The world changes rather rapidly
Also i will leave all other vRA7 entusiasts with a little note..
Renew your certificates, oh did you already?

Hope you didnt forget PostgreSQL (expires 5 years after installation)
vRA 7.x APIs return error 500 when connecting to Postgres DB (85904) (vmware.com)

OH but there is more..

Management Agents will also stop work unless you replace self signed certificates
Replace a Management Agent Certificate (vmware.com)


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