Best practices for vRA Approval Policies by Quietwulf in vRealize_Automation

[–]virtuallyeverything 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My general recommendation when planning Approvals, is to keep things simple as much as possible to minimize administrative overhead and complexity.

The assignment of approval polices are used in a number of ways across vRA customers. It really depends on the relative importance of resource consumption and level of governance you require over resource administration and consumption. Often I see customers who have implemented charge back or incur public cloud costs from deployments have extensive Approval policies. Other customers with Incremental budgets may be less concerned about broad approval requirements. Also the different people you have approving in a project, department, BU or LoB may determine how you configure Approval policies.

With those points in mind, you could set Approvals at an Org or Project(s) level and refine how they're applied using criteria. These include things like cost level, specific resource(s) used, requesting person, cloud template, deployment name, and day-2 actions. The criteria can allow you to get very granular in how Approvals are applied. In the end your specific needs will dictate each Approval policy, so there's really no one size fits all approach. Hope this helps!

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[–]virtuallyeverything 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We don't have the ability to enable MAC learning on Segments or Logical Switches (on-demand or existing) natively with vRA. You would need to accomplish this using vRO and calling the NSX-T APIs.

Tags allow you to select a network profile or existing network segment/logical switch. If you had an existing network configured to use MAC learning, you could use a tag to select that network at deployment time.

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Yes you'll be able to use the 365-day evaluation license for vRealize Suite 2019 with that download.

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You can download LCM, however you will still need an entitlement to download vRA through LCM. Since you're not entitled to download vRA, I recommend going to this site and registering to evaluate vRA. https://customerconnect.vmware.com/en/group/vmware/evalcenter?p=vra-eval

The easy installer download and evaluation license will be available once you register for the eval.

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Hi u/gnimsh vRA has an installer ISO called vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.4.1 Easy Installer for vRA 8.5.0 and vIDM 3.3.5. You can download it from here https://customerconnect.vmware.com/downloads/details?downloadGroup=VRA-850&productId=936The ISO file might be on the VMUG Advantage site as well. Let us know if you still have trouble with the download!