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To meet the company's policy and ensure appropriate placement of development and production workloads, capability tags should be applied as follows:

Add a capability tag to each public cloud zone, using env

as the key/value pair:This ensures that development workloads are tagged appropriately and can be identified and placed in the public cloud environments.

Add a capability tag to each vSphere cloud zone, using env

as the key/value pair:This ensures that production workloads are tagged appropriately and can be placed within the on-premises vSphere environment.

These actions ensure that the deployment policies align with the organization's requirements and provide clear differentiation between development and production environments.

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VMware Aria Automation Tagging Strategy

VMware Aria Automation Cloud Zones and Capability Tags

Thevraclicommand-line utility is used for various administrative tasks in VMware Aria Automation. To check the cluster information, the specific command isvracli cluster. This command provides detailed information about the cluster status, including the health and configuration of the nodes within the cluster. This is crucial for monitoring and managing the health and performance of the VMware Aria Automation environment.

When there is a conflict between constraint tags at different levels, the project-level constraint tags take precedence over the template-level constraint tags. This ensures that governance and compliance requirements set at the project level are always enforced, overriding the constraints set at the template level.

Thus, when the template is provisioned, thelocation:londontag from the project will take precedence over thelocation:bostontag from the template.

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Using Automation Assembler project tags and custom properties

Using constraint tags in Automation Assembler

A cloud zone in VMware Aria Automation is used to segregate resources for provisioning within a cloud account. It acts as a logical partition within a cloud account that organizes compute resources, which are used for deploying workloads. Cloud zones allow administrators to control the distribution of resources and ensure that specific projects or business units can deploy their workloads only within the designated zones.

This segregation helps in managing resource allocation more efficiently and can also support various organizational policies and compliance requirements by isolating environments such as development, testing, and production.

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Using cloud zones in VMware Aria Automation

VMware Aria Automation Config is the component used to define and enforce optimized and compliant software states across an environment. It allows administrators to create desired state configurations and apply them to various resources, ensuring compliance and optimal performance. This component is essential for maintaining consistent and secure configurations in dynamic and hybrid cloud environments.

References:

VMware Aria Automation Documentation

When working with multiple versions of a VMware Aria Automation Template, it is important to identify differences between these versions to understand what changes have been made and ensure the correct version is published. TheDiffoption is used to compare different versions of the template. This feature highlights the differences line-by-line, making it easier for administrators to see what modifications have been made across versions and decide which version to publish.

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VMware Aria Automation Template Management

In VMware Aria Automation, a project serves as a fundamental organizational unit that maps compute resources to users and groups. Projects allow administrators to define which cloud zones users can deploy workloads to, and they manage the membership and permissions of users within the project. This organizational structure helps ensure that resources are allocated and managed according to the needs and policies of different business units or teams.

A project can specify several configurations, including the maximum number of instances, memory limits, CPU limits, and storage limits that the project can use. Additionally, projects help enforce governance by applying constraints and custom properties that dictate deployment behaviors and resource usage.

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Projects Design for VMware Aria Automation

To upgrade a VMware Aria Automation deployment to the next available version, the administrator must use VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle. This tool provides a comprehensive framework for managing the lifecycle of VMware Aria Suite products, including upgrades, installations, and patching. The upgrade process involves several steps, such as ensuring the system meets hardware and software requirements, performing pre-upgrade checks, and managing snapshots to ensure a smooth upgrade process.

VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle ensures that all dependencies, such as VMware Workspace ONE Access, are also updated as needed to maintain compatibility and functionality within the VMware Aria Suite environment.

References

VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle Documentation

Upgrading VMware Aria Automation

For a VMware Aria Automation standard deployment, there are specific network prerequisites that must be met to ensure proper functionality and connectivity. Two critical components are:

DNS Server (C): DNS servers are essential for resolving the hostnames of the different components involved in the VMware Aria Automation environment. This resolution is crucial for communication between services and ensuring that the various components can locate each other correctly.

IPv4 Addresses (E): IPv4 addresses are required for assigning unique network addresses to the different devices and services within the infrastructure. This addressing isnecessary for network communication and ensuring that each component can be reached over the network.

These elements are foundational for setting up the network environment that VMware Aria Automation relies on, ensuring that all services can communicate effectively and that the deployment is properly configured.

References

VMware Aria Automation Documentation