The tenant administrator for a company's vRealize Automation deployment is asked to create a profile for a user that should be able to assemble the blueprints that define catalog items for consumers to request from the service catalog.
Which tenant role should this user be granted?
The appropriate tenant role for a user who should be able to assemble blueprints that define catalog items for consumers to request from the service catalog in vRealize Automation is Catalog Architect. This role is specifically responsible for creating and managing blueprints, which are the foundation for catalog items. Other roles such as Fabric Administrator, Blueprint Administrator, and Application Architect are either not focused on blueprint creation or do not exist within the vRealize Automation role structure.
During requirements gathering for an organization's private cloud on a single machine catalog, the following requirements were identified:
✑ A user should be able to select a data center location which is mapped to a custom resource by the fabric administrator.
✑ A Guest VM custom hostname format should be based on the first two letters of the data center location.
✑ A generated VM custom hostname format should be displayed as a drop-down in the catalog request page using a vRealize Automation (vRA) custom property backed by external vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) action.
Which design recommendation would best address these requirements?
To address the requirements for selecting a data center location and dynamically generating a VM custom hostname format, the design recommendation should include the use of a custom property that allows for datacenter values to be shown in the request and mapped as an input to the vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) action. This custom property must be properly defined and configurable. 'Vrm.DataCenter.Location' is the correct format for the custom property name. Therefore, the best option is to define the custom property 'Vrm.DataCenter.Location' with static datacenter values, assign it to the blueprint with the 'Show in the request' checkbox selected, and map it as an input to the required vRO action.
A cloud architect is trying to determine the operational impacts of adding another business group (DevOps) to the company's existing vRealize Automation (vRA) deployment. Existing users have reported that response times for login into their vRA infrastructure has spiked recently and it is taking longer than usual. The
Active Directory user base, after the addition of DevOps users, could increase to well over 100,000 users and 50 groups.
What is the VMware-recommended design to address this scenario?
As the issue described involves slow response times when logging into the vRealize Automation (vRA) infrastructure and an expected increase in Active Directory users, the best VMware-recommended solution is to increase the vRA virtual appliance memory allocation on each machine according to the sizing guidelines. This measure ensures that the appliances can handle the increased load efficiently, improving response times and overall performance for a large user base.
A cloud architect is tasked with designing a Guest virtual machine (VM) request form for an organization's new vRealize Automation (vRA) implementation. Its current PowerCLI VM request tool uses a PowerShell script that retrieves user IDs from Active Directory, which is the same identity source for vRealize
Automation. The intent of the script is to retrieve and display John Smith when the actual value in Active Directory is JSmith01.
What is the most secure way to utilize the same script for user's display name in the vRA request form?
Designing a scheduled vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) workflow to execute the PowerShell script and store values in vRO, then utilizing the vRA external drop-down to retrieve these values from vRO, ensures a secure and efficient method. This approach centralizes the handling and storage of sensitive data within vRO, minimizes exposure, and leverages vRA’s external drop-down capabilities for dynamic and accurate retrieval of user display names.
A company is currently experiencing long infrastructure provisioning times, given that the process to ask, review, approve and deploy their services is manual with many people involved. It is considering vRealize Automation as a resolution, but it wants to better understand how much resources it is going to need.
Which three should the architect consider when determining the appropriate vRealize Automation deployment size for this environment? (Choose three.)
When determining the appropriate vRealize Automation deployment size for an environment, the architect should consider the number of managed machines, as this directly impacts the scale and resources needed for automation. The number of concurrent machine provisions is important because it affects how much capacity the system requires at any given time to handle simultaneous provisioning tasks. Finally, the number of endpoints is relevant because it determines the complexity and range of integration points the automation system must handle, influencing overall resource requirements.