The second-half application for VMware vExpert 2021 close soon 9th July 2021. Now I appreciate that there has been a plethora of posts about the benefits of being a vExpert, so I thought I would share my story too :)

What Is The vExpert Program?

In my opinon, at it’s heart, the VMware vExpert Program is not just about advocacy and envanglism, it’s about community. It brings people together. It encourages those people with diverse backrounds, who live in different countries or continents (that would likely never meet otherwise) to share their own experiences with VMware Technology through the medium of their choice. It encourages people to give back with the hope that someone, somewhere can learn something, fix a problem or just know that they are not alone. Most importantly, you DO NOT have to be an VMware expert to be a VMware vExpert (but it does help!).

Written by Christopher Lewis on June 30, 2021.

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Since VMworld 2020 and the announcement of vRealize Cloud Universal subscription licensing, I have been working and speaking with a lot of customers who get confused with different key terms around software licensing. More than any others, the terms Perpetual vs Subscription vs Software-As-A-Service (SaaS) is confusing a lot of people!

Written by Christopher Lewis on November 30, 2020.

Perpetual Subscription SaaS

In this post, we will walk through how to configure the integration for the embedded (shared) vRealize Orchestrator into the additional customer tenants.

Written by Christopher Lewis on November 4, 2020.

vRealize Automation vRealize Orchestrator vRA vRO Multi-Tenancy

In this post, which is one in a series of posts, we will review some of the different options for vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) multi-tenancy within a vRealize Automation (vRA) 8.x multi-organization tenancy environment

Written by Christopher Lewis on November 3, 2020.

vRealize Automation vRealize Orchestrator vRA vRO Multi-Tenancy

In this post, which is one in a series of posts, we will tackle the configuration of new Tenant Adminsistrators within vRA 8.x multi-organization tenancy environment.

Written by Christopher Lewis on October 2, 2020.

vRealize Automation vRA Multi-Tenancy

Introduction

In this series of posts, we will be taking a look at how to configure a Multi-Organization Tenancy (aka Multi-Tenancy) in vRealize Automation (vRA) 8.1. In this post, I will tackle the configuration of new Tenant Adminsistrators within vRA 8.1 multi-organization tenancy environment.

For more information on the rest of the posts in this series, click here .

What is a Tenant Administrator?

The Tenant Administrator is a role who is responsible for the configuration of the VMware Identity Manager (vIDM) solution for the tenant. This makes it role in vRA 8.1 is significantly different to in vRA7.x because the Tenant Administrator role does not, by default, have any rights to the vRA Organisation/Tenant. The Tenant Administator is only granted ReadOnly Admin and Super Admin privilges within vIDM!

Written by Christopher Lewis on October 2, 2020.

vRealize Automation 8

In this series of posts, we will be taking a look at how to configure a Multi-Organization Tenancy (aka Multi-Tenancy) in vRealize Automation (vRA) 8.x. In this post, I will tackle the management of User Directories in a vRA 8.x Multi-Organizational Tenancy deployment. Specifically, we will look at:

  1. Migrating a User Directory from the Provider Tenant into the Customer Tenant.
  2. Adding a new User Directory to the Customer Tenant using VMware Identity Manager.
  3. Deleting a User Directory from the Customer Tenant using VMware Identitiy Manager.

For more information on the rest of the posts in this series, click here .

Written by Christopher Lewis on October 1, 2020.

vRealize Automation vRA Multi-Tenancy

Have you ever wanted to go to VMworld and never had the travel or budget approved?

Well, unless you have been in cryogenic stasis for the last 6 months (and if you were, maybe you were better off), then you will know that VMworld 2020 is going to be VERY different this year. It is a single GLOBAL event, on 29th September - 1st October 2020. It is VIRTUAL. It is FREE. There is NO EXCUSE not to register.

Written by Christopher Lewis on September 22, 2020.

VMworld VMworld 2020

Have you ever wanted to go to VMworld and never had the travel or budget approved?

Well, unless you have been in cryogenic stasis for the last 6 months (and if you were, maybe you were better off), then you will know that VMworld 2020 is going to be VERY different this year. It is a single GLOBAL event, on 29th September - 1st October 2020. It is VIRTUAL. It is FREE. There is NO EXCUSE not to register.

Written by Christopher Lewis on September 22, 2020.

VMworld VMworld 2020

Have you ever wanted to go to VMworld and never had the travel or budget approved?

Well, unless you have been in cryogenic stasis for the last 6 months (and if you were, maybe you were better off), then you will know that VMworld 2020 is going to be VERY different this year. It is a single GLOBAL event, on 29th September - 1st October 2020. It is VIRTUAL. It is FREE. There is NO EXCUSE not to register.

Written by Christopher Lewis on September 22, 2020.

VMworld VMworld 2020