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Automating vCAC Tenant Creation with vCO: Part 5 Creating an Identity Store

In this series we will see how to automate the creation of a tenant in vCAC using vCO. There are multiple tasks to provision a tenant in vCAC, so even though it is an automation product itself, there’s no reason why you shouldn’t look at automating parts of it too. In part 5 we look at adding an Identity Store to a Tenant in vCAC. 1) Generate the variables for adding an Identity Store

Automating vCAC Tenant Creation with vCO: Part 4 Creating a Tenant

In this series we will see how to automate the creation of a tenant in vCAC using vCO. There are multiple tasks to provision a tenant in vCAC, so even though it is an automation product itself, there’s no reason why you shouldn’t look at automating parts of it too. In part 4 we look at the first part of creating a Tenant in vCAC. 1) Create the parent workflow

Automating vCAC Tenant Creation with vCO: Part 3 Install the vCAC plugin for vCO

In this series we will see how to automate the creation of a tenant in vCAC using vCO. There are multiple tasks to provision a tenant in vCAC, so even though it is an automation product itself, there’s no reason why you shouldn’t look at automating parts of it too. In part 3 we look at installing the vCAC plugin for vCO Navigate to the Configuration webpage, in my case https://localhost:8283/

Automating vCAC Tenant Creation with vCO: Part 2 AD Users, Groups and OUs

In this series we will see how to automate the creation of a tenant in vCAC using vCO. There are multiple tasks to provision a tenant in vCAC, so even though it is an automation product itself, there’s no reason why you shouldn’t look at automating parts of it too. In part 2 we will create the AD Users, Groups and OUs to support the vCAC tenant. In this example we will create:

Automating vCAC Tenant Creation with vCO: Part 1 AD SSL

In this series we will see how to automate the creation of a tenant in vCAC using vCO. There are multiple tasks to provision a tenant in vCAC, so even though it is an automation product itself, there’s no reason why you shouldn’t look at automating parts of it too. In parts 1 and 2 we will look at the AD requirements for a tenant. Since most organisations will likely use AD for authentication we will create the minimum users and groups required for a vCAC tenant in a structure that lends itself to further expansion.

vCO Active Directory 'Create User Group' Action Does Not Populate SamAccountName with Expected Result

While using the Create a user group in an organizational unit Active Directory workflow in vCenter Orchestrator 5.5.1 I noticed an unexpected result after the group had been created in AD. Although the group was successfully created, the SamAccountName attribute appeared to have been populated with a seemingly random string and not the name of the group as I would have expected. Apart from being a bit inconsistent for my liking this could have potentially undesired results from applications querying AD using the SamAccountName property.

vCAC: Error requesting machine. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8004D025)

While setting up vCAC 6.0 in my home lab, I encountered the following error when trying to deploy a machine from a blueprint. Error requesting machine. Inner Exception: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. Base Exception: The partner transaction manager has disabled its support for remote/network transactions. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8004D025) I found a VMware KB article for an earlier version along similar lines which requires configuring some MSDTC settings on the SQL server holding the vCAC database.

Automating the Pre-Requisites for vCAC 5.2

The other day I noticed some comments on Twitter around the time taken to install VMware vCloud Automation Center 5.2 Being of curious nature I decided to check it out further and in doing so discovered this extensive installation guide from Jad El-Zein. Seeing as a lot of the pre-requisites are installing Windows Roles / Features and configuring IIS, I figured this would make a good candidate for some PowerShell work and might save you some time if you need to do this yourself.