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What is VIC: VIC - vSphere Integrated Containers enable IT, teams, to seamlessly run traditional workloads and container workloads side-by-side on existing vSphere infrastructure. The solution is delivered in the form of an appliance just like any other VMware mgmt solution. The appliance comprises of,  vSphere Integrated Containers Engine , a container runtime for vSphere that allows you to provision containers as virtual machines, offering the same security and functionality of virtual machines in VMware ESXi™ hosts or vCenter Server® instances. vSphere Integrated Containers Plug-In for vSphere Client , that provides information about your vSphere Integrated Containers set up and allows you to deploy virtual container hosts directly from the vSphere Client. vSphere Integrated Containers Registry (Harbor) , an enterprise-class container registry server that stores and distributes container images. vSphere Integrated Containers Registry extends the Dock...

vRealize Automation Installation Overview You can install vRealize Automation to support minimal, proof of concept environments, or in different sizes of distributed, enterprise configurations that are capable of handling production workloads. Installation can be interactive or silent. After installation, you start using vRealize Automation by customizing your setup and configuring tenants, which provides users with access to self-service provisioning and life-cycle management of cloud services New in this vRealize Automation Installation: If you installed earlier versions of vRealize Automation, be aware of changes in the installation process for this release.  This release simplifies the vRealize Automation appliance node removal process.  The vRealize Automation appliance administration interface has changed.  Database tab features have moved to the Cluster tab. The Database tab has been removed, and the Cluster tab has beco...

VMware introduced a new API service in vSphere 6.5 version which is known as vSphere Automation API. This service allows us to introduce several new SDKs for JAVA, Perl, Ruby, REST etc.   Today we will see how to setup the basic wizard to start using the API service in day to day life. For more information about what was introduced with the vSphere Automation APIs visit Here Documentation : The documentation for this SDK version is pretty straight forward. We can browse to each level of API and see the sections of what the operations it performs. We can get the URL, JSON , XML representation for each and every operations in the document. SDK Documentation   SDK tool kit: You can download the SDK kit from VMware { code } Tools required: We will use Postman today so that we will be able to start working with the API quickly and build your knowledge of how it works before using API in your own application. Postman is a great application to d...