2V0-31.24 VMware Aria Automation 8.10 Professional V2 Questions and Answers

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

Within a VMware Aria Automation solution, the VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator Service is composed of several containers. The key containers that make up the Orchestrator service are:

vro-server-app: This container handles the core Orchestrator server functions.

vco-polyglot-runner: This container is responsible for running the workflows and scripts that are defined in multiple programming languages.

vco-controlcenter-app: This container manages the Orchestrator Control Center, which is used for administrative and configuration tasks.

These containers work together to ensure that the Orchestrator service operates smoothly and efficiently.

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VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator Service

In VMware Aria Automation Assembler, flavor mappings are configured within the context of projects. Projects define the scope and access for users and resources. By configuring flavor mappings within a project, administrators can control which flavor options are available for deployments under that project. This ensures that the appropriate resources and configurations are utilized for different environments or use cases.

References:

VMware Aria Automation Documentation

VMware Aria Automation User Guide

In a VMware Aria Automation multi-organization tenant configuration, the setup allows for multiple tenants, where each tenant has the autonomy to manage its own projects, resources, and deployments. This configuration is essential for organizations that require segregation of duties and resources among different departments, business units, or customers. Each tenant operates independently, which provides flexibility and security, ensuring that the resources and deployments of one tenant do not interfere with another. This setup supports a scalable and manageable approach to infrastructure and service management across large and complex environments.

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VMware Aria Automation Multi-Organization Configuration Documentation

The role required to create a content source and thereby import VMware Aria Automation templates into the catalog is the VMware Aria Automation Assembler Administrator. This role has the necessary permissions to manage content sources, including creating and configuring them to import templates. This role is responsible for setting up and maintaining the templates and blueprints used for provisioning resources within VMware Aria Automation, ensuring they are available in the catalog for users to deploy.

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VMware Aria Automation Roles and Permissions

In VMware Aria Automation Assembler, tags are critical for managing, analyzing, monitoring, and grouping deployed resources. Among the various types of tags, the standard tag is automatically applied during the provisioning of some deployments. These standard tags are essential for supporting the analysis, monitoring, and grouping of deployed resources.

Standard tags in VMware Aria Automation are system-generated and stored as custom properties. They are used primarily for tracking and managing resources post-deployment. Unlike user-defined tags, standard tags are automatically applied and are not used during the deployment configuration to enforce constraints or capabilities. Instead, they facilitate operational functions such as monitoring resource usage, ensuring compliance, and optimizing resource management.

Other types of tags, like constraint tags and capability tags, are user-defined and are crucial during the deployment process for determining resource allocation and meeting specific requirements or constraints. However, standard tags serve a distinct purpose by providing a consistent way to monitor and group resources after they have been provisioned.

References

Using Automation Assembler project tags and custom properties

Tagging Design for VMware Aria Automation Assembler

How do I use tags to manage Cloud Assembly resources and deployments

VMware Technical Support routinely requests diagnostic information when you submit a support request. This diagnostic information contains product-specific logs and configuration files from the host on which the product runs.

Automation Orchestrator Appliance logs are stored in the /data/vco/usr/lib/vco/app-server/logs/ directory. You export the logs of your Automation Orchestrator Appliance deployment by logging in to the appliance command line and running the vracli log-bundle command. The generated log bundle is saved on the root folder of your Automation Orchestrator Appliance.

https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Aria-Automation/8.17/Installing-Configuring-Automation-Orchestrator/GUID-0BA1B08B-7A94-45AD-ADFF-3440529E5F59.html#:~:text=Automation%20Orchestrator%20Appliance%20logs%20are,%2Dserver%2Flogs%2F%20directory .

Create a new Image Mapping within VMware Aria Automation Assembler: This step involves creating an image mapping that references the base image. It ensures that your deployment configurations are applied to the correct base image.

Select the original Linux OS Virtual Machine template as the base image: Instead of creating a new template, use the existing Linux OS template, minimizing the number of templates required.

Add the required configuration into the cloud configuration: This step ensures that additional configurations, such as creating local users and groups, are applied during the deployment process irrespective of the cloud template.

Save the image mapping: Finalize and save the image mapping to make it available for use in deployments.

These steps minimize the number of VM templates by reusing the existing template and ensure that additional configurations are always applied through the cloud configuration.

References:

Getting Started with VMware Aria Automation

VMware Aria Automation 8.10 Reference Architecture Guide

To share all the imported VMware Aria Automation templates dynamically with project members, the administrator should select the "Dynamic Content" sharing option. This option ensures that any new templates added to the content source are automatically shared with the project members without requiring manual updates.

References:

VMware Aria Automation 8.10 Reference Architecture Guide

Getting Started with VMware Aria Automation

For the VMware Aria Automation onboarding plan to run successfully, two critical pre-requisites must be met:

Add the cloud account and create cloud zones for compute resources where machines to be onboarded are located:This ensures that the necessary cloud infrastructure is available and properly configured for onboarding. Cloud zones represent specific regions or sets of resources within the cloud provider that will host the onboarded machines.

Create a project with at least one user and give the project access to the cloud zones:Projects in VMware Aria Automation define boundaries for resource usage, permissions, and policies. By assigning at least one user to the project and ensuring the project has access to the relevant cloud zones, the onboarding process can allocate and manage resources as needed within the defined scope.

These steps ensure that the infrastructure and permissions are correctly set up to support the onboarding of virtual machines, providing a smooth and controlled process for integrating existing resources into VMware Aria Automation.

References:

VMware Aria Automation Documentation

VMware Aria Suite Overview

In VMware Aria Automation, to ensure that all VMs' computer accounts for HR associates are created in a specified Organizational Unit (OU) within Active Directory, the native integration with Active Directory can be leveraged. This integration allows the administrator to configure and automate the placement of computer accounts into specific OUs during the provisioning process. This ensures compliance with organizational policies and simplifies the management of computer accounts within the Active Directory.

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VMware Aria Automation AD Integration

Within VMware Aria Automation Pipelines, Stages and Tasks are fundamental components that define the workflow. Here’s how they function:

A Task can run either in parallel or sequentially to other Tasks within the same Stage (A): This flexibility allows for efficient resource usage and optimization of deployment processes.

A Stage can run either in parallel or sequentially to other Stages within the same Pipeline (B): This enables complex workflows to be broken down into manageable segments, which can be executed based on dependencies or simultaneously if there are no interdependencies.

A Stage can have more than one Task (E): Each Stage can encapsulate multiple Tasks, allowing for intricate workflows within a single Stage.

A Pipeline can have more than one Stage (F): A pipeline is typically composed of multiple stages, each representing a different phase of the deployment process, such as development, testing, and production.

These configurations provide significant flexibility and control over the deployment processes within VMware Aria Automation Pipelines, facilitating sophisticated CI/CD workflows.

References

Using VMware Aria Automation Pipelines

VMware Aria Automation Pipelines User Guide

The "First class disk storage type" is designed for full life-cycle management of a virtual disk in VMware environments. This type of disk allows advanced operations such as independent snapshots, cloning, and management separate from the VM lifecycle. It is the preferred choice for operations that require high flexibility and full lifecycle management capabilities.

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VMware Aria Automation Documentation

When creating a subscription in VMware Aria Automation Assembler, the two types of runnable items available for executing code are:

ABX Action (C): Action-Based Extensibility (ABX) allows users to write small pieces of code (actions) in various languages such as Python, Node.js, and PowerShell to handle specific events and workflows within VMware Aria Automation.

VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator Workflow (E): VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator provides a comprehensive platform for automating complex IT tasks and workflows. Workflows can be created and orchestrated to interact with various VMware and third-party systems, and they can be triggered by subscriptions to automate processes in VMware Aria Automation.

These runnable items enable the automation and customization of workflows and actions based on specific events and triggers within the VMware Aria Automation environment.

References

VMware Aria Automation ABX Documentation

VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator Documentation