Installing Vrealize Automation Easy Installer
Installing Vrealize Automation Easy Installer
Installing Vrealize Automation Easy Installer
04 February 2021
vRealize Automation 8.3
Installing vRealize Automation with vRealize Easy Installer
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Contents
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What does vRealize Easy Installer
do 1
The vRealize Easy Installer helps you install vRealize Automation and Workspace ONE Access in
less time than it would take to install individual products.
The procedures in this guide provide the step-by-step process for installing and deploying
vRealize Automation, vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager, and Workspace ONE Access by using the
vRealize Easy Installer.
vRealize Automation
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vRealize Automation is a modern infrastructure automation platform that enables private and
multi-cloud environments on VMware Cloud infrastructure. It delivers self-service automation,
DevOps for infrastructure, configuration management and network automation capabilities that
help you increase business and IT agility, productivity, and efficiency. Integrate, streamline, and
modernize traditional, cloud-native, and multi-cloud infrastructures with vRealize Automation and
simplify IT while preparing for the future of your business.
vRealize Automation is installed, configured, managed, and upgraded only through vRealize Suite
Lifecycle Manager.
vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager delivers a comprehensive application lifecycle and content
management solution for the vRealize Suite, accelerating time to value, minimizing ongoing
management, and improving end-user productivity.
The vRealize Easy Installer also allows you to migrate vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager instances.
VMware Identity Manager (also known as Workspace One) integrates access control, application
management and multi-platform endpoint management into a single platform and is available as
a cloud service or on-premises deployment.
Note You can skip to the individual installations of Workspace ONE and vRealize Automation by
selecting the Skip Installation button at the top of their Configuration tabs.
n System Requirements
System Requirements
The following system resources are required to install vRealize Automation and VMware Identity
Manager.
Note vRealize Automation 8 does not support nested virtual environments, such as ESX > ESX >
vRA.
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Virtual CPU 2 8 12 24
Memory/RAM Size 6 GB 16 GB 42 GB 96 GB
System Partition 10 GB 8 GB 50 GB 50 GB
Metrics Partition 20 GB 20 GB
Logs Partition 22 GB 22 GB
Swap Size 8 GB 6 GB
Tomcat Partition 10 GB
var Partition 10 GB
db Partition 10 GB 10 GB
For more information on configuration limits, see the VMware Configuration Maximums tool.
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Hardware Requirements
n vRealize Automation hardware requirements
n Specifications for Workspace ONE Access are based on the number of users in the
directories. For more information, see System and Network Configurations Requirements.
Note To learn more about the hardware resizing of Workspace ONE Access through Lifecycle
Manager, see Hardware Sizing for Workspace ONE Access.
n Citrix NetScaler LB - For more information, see vRealize Automation Load Balancing.
Network Requirements
vRealize Automation requires:
n Valid, Fully qualified domain name, set manually that can be resolved both forward and in
reverse through the DNS server
Note IP address change or hostname change after installation is not supported and results in a
broken setup that is not recoverable.
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TCP 80
TCP 443
TCP 2379
TCP 2380
TCP 6443
TCP 8008
TCP 10250
TCP 16000
TCP 20849
TCP 30333
TCP 30821
TCP 31090
UDP 500
UDP 4500
UDP 8285
ESP
AH
Table 1-2. Requirement for Ports for Product and Integration Communications
Product or Integration TCP Port Number
For more information on ports, see vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager Ports
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The use of SaltStack Config with your vRealize Automation environment is optional.
With SaltStack Config, you can provision, configure, and deploy software to your virtual
machines at any scale using event-driven automation. You can also use SaltStack Config to define
and enforce optimal, compliant software states across your entire environment. For more
information on SaltStack Config, see Using SaltStack Config in vRealize Automation.
n Deploy SaltStack from vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager. For more information on configuring
and deploying SaltStack from LCM, see Configure Product Details and Create a New Private
Cloud Environment Using the Installation Wizard.
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How to run the vRealize Easy
Installer 2
The vRealize Easy Installer is downloadable from the My VMware download page.
Procedure
1 Download the vRealize Easy Installer executable file from the My VMware download page.
4 The folder contains three subfolders for three operating systems. Based on your operating
system, browse to the corresponding operating system folder inside the vrlcm-ui-installer
folder.
Windows lcm-installer\vrlcm-ui-installer\win32
Mac vrlcm-ui-installer/mac/Installer
The vRealize Easy Installer UI is specific to the operating system. Ensure that you are using
the valid UI folder path to run the installer.
Results
You can now install your applications using the Easy Installer.
If the Easy Installer fails to launch, and you see this error message "A problem occurred during
installation.Check the installer logs and retry", it is because:
n A host rebooted during installation. Select the Host to return to a healthy state.
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n The datastore was 100% full during installation. Clear the datastore memory and retry
launching the Easy Installer.
n The Easy Installer could not connect to the ESXI host. Add target vCenter Server and all
cluster associated ESXI servers DNS FQDN entries to the system host's file: C:\Windows
\System32\drivers\etc\hosts. For Linux and Mac, /etc/hosts.
Watch the vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager Installation with Easy Installer video.
Prerequisites
You must meet these prerequisites before you can install vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager:
n Ensure you have a vCenter Server set up and access to the credentials.
n Ensure you have the network configuration details for vRealize Automation
Procedure
3 Accept the License Agreement and click Next. Read the Customer Experience Improvement
Program and select the checkbox to join the program.
4 To specify vCenter Server details, enter these details on the Appliance Deployment Target
tab.
5 Click Next and you are prompted with a Certificate Warning, click Accept to proceed.
b Expand to any data center and map your deployment to a specific VM folder.
a Expand the data center tree to an appropriate resource location and click Next.
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8 On the Select a Storage Location tab, select a datastore to store your deployment and click
Next.
9 On the Network Configuration and Password Configuration tabs, set up your Network and
Password configuration by entering the required fields, and clicking Next.
a For a vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager VM, enter the NTP Server for the appliance and
click Next.
The network configurations provided for all products are a one time entry for your
configuration settings. The password provided is also common for all products and you need
not enter the password again while you are installing the products.
Password should have minimum one upper case, one lower case, one number and one
special character. Special characters can be !@#$%^&*(). Colon(:) is not supported in the
password for vRealize Automation 8.0 and 8.0.1.
b Provide configuration information. Enter the Data Center Name, vCenter Name and
Increase the Disk Space fields.
d Click Next.
What to do next
By default, VMware Cloud includes one vCenter with clusters and objects. You can use the easy
installer to set up an LCM instance on your VMC. You can use VMware cloud to set up a software
defined data center. By default, only the Compute-ResourcePool, and the Management VMs and
Workloads folders are available. To deploy VMs, configure all deployments under the Workloads
folder and on the WorkloadDatastore.
Note The Easy Installer does not support migration for LCM to 8.2 on a VMC vCenter. You must
install and configure a new LCM instance.
Procedure
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2 Enter the details of your VMC vCenter, using the cloud admin account as your username click
Next.
Note The required user role and privileges are highlighted on screen.
Note By default, the VMC vCenter cloud admin account is the only user account with access
the vCenter inventory.
6 On the Network Configuration and Password Configuration tabs, set up your Network and
Password configuration by entering the required fields, and clicking Next.
a For a vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager VM, enter the NTP Server for the appliance and
click Next.
The network configurations provided for all products are a one time entry for your
configuration settings. The password provided is also common for all products and you need
not enter the password again while you are installing the products.
Password should have minimum one upper case, one lower case, one number, and one
special character. Special characters can be !@#$%^&*(). Colon(:) is not supported in the
password for vRealize Automation 8.0 and 8.0.1.
b Provide configuration information. Enter the Data Center Name, vCenter Name and
Increase the Disk Space fields.
d Click Next.
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Results
A LCM instance is successfully configured on VMC. However, if configuration fails ensure these
settings are correct and retry configuration:
n User role and permissions are not correct. Refer to vCenter Permissions for information on
what roles and permissions are required.
n The selected resources are not correct. You can only select and use ComputeResourcePool,
the Workload folder, and Workload Datastore in your configuration.
If you want to customize your Workspace ONE Access configuration, which can include
deployment of Workspace ONE Access in a standard or a cluster mode, customized mode of
Network, storage, you can skip the installation of Workspace ONE Access. If you have skipped,
you are still prompted to configure the Workspace ONE Access on the vRealize Suite Lifecycle
Manager UI. With vRealize Easy Installer you either import an existing Workspace ONE Access
into vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager or a new instance of Workspace ONE Access can be
deployed. For more information on Hardware re-sizing for Workspace ONE Access, see Re-sizing
Hardware.
Prerequisites
Verify that you have a static IP address before you begin your configuration.
Procedure
2 Enter the required text boxes under Virtual Machine Name, IP Address, Hostname, and
Default Configuration Admin.
Note The vRealize Easy Installer creates the Default Configuration Admin user as a local user
in Workspace ONE Access and the same user is used to integrate products with Workspace
ONE Access.
a Enter the Hostname, Admin Password, System Admin Password, SSH User Password,
Root Password, Default Configuration Admin, and Default Configuration Password.
b Select the Sync group members to the Directory when user want to sync group
member while adding a group for the global configuration of Workspace ONE Access.
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Note Workspace ONE Access will be supported if the scenarios are one of the following:
n Workspace ONE Access 3.3.2 and 3.3.3 with the given deployment type.
Note Workspace ONE Access will not be supported if the scenarios are one of the following:
n Single or cluster instance with additional connectors (Windows and external connectors)
other than the embedded ones.
Note If the older version of vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager does not have Workspace ONE
Access, it can either be installed or imported.Workspace ONE Access Lifecycle and extended
day-2 functionalities are not supported from the vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager if the
imported Workspace ONE Access not in supported form factor:
Upgrade support from an older Workspace ONE Access version (3.3.0 and earlier) to the
latest is only available if it is a single instance or a node vRealize Identity Manager with
embedded postgres database.
Else you can upgrade outside vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager. Once upgraded, it can any
time be reimported by triggering Inventory Sync in vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager.
4 Click Next.
If you cannot deploy vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager Workspace ONE Access or vRealize
Automation in VMC vCenter Server using vRealize Easy Installer, then use the vCenter Server
that has an administrator privilege to deploy products.
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To upgrade vRealize Automation using Lifecycle Manager, see Upgrade vRealize Automation 8.x
with vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager.
The easy installer provides you with minimal or a clustered deployment options before you start
your vRealize Automation configuration.
Note Starting with 8.1, you have the option to skip the installation of Workspace ONE Access. If
you have skipped, then you cannot configure vRealize Automation. To configure vRealize
Automation, you can either go back and configure Workspace ONE Access or complete the
installation and configure vRealize Automation in vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager UI.
Prerequisites
n Verify that you have the static IP address of the VM, host name, and VM name. vRealize
Automation requires Workspace ONE Access 3.3.2 for an import or a new installation. Manual
installation of vRealize Automation through OVA is not supported.
n Verify that you have an external load balancer configured for cluster deployments.
Procedure
3 After configuring your Workspace ONE Access settings, you have the option to install
vRealize Automation. For a standard deployment with a master node, enter the Virtual
Machine Name, IP Address, and FQDN Hostname of vRealize Automation. Skip to step 6.
4 For a cluster deployment with three nodes, you are required to enter the Load Balancer IP
address and FQDN.
Note If the SSL is terminated at load-balancer, select the SSL terminated at load-balancer
check box. Deselect the check box, if the SSL pass-through is enabled in the load-balancer. If
a wrong value is provided for the property, then vRealize Automation deployment to fails.
6 For a cluster deployment, create secondary nodes, enter the required text boxes, and
proceed.
7 (Optional) In the Advanced Configuration for vRealize Automation section, you can manually
enter K8S Cluster and Service IP ranges by selecting Configure internal pods and service
subnets. If left unselected, vRealize Automation uses the default values.
8 Click Next.
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9 Read the Summary page with the entered data and click Submit.
For example, the installation time depends on copying binaries from the source machine to
vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager VA for Workspace ONE Access and vRealize Automation
deployment, which varies based on the network speed.
Results
After submitting your details, the installer takes about 30 minutes to install the vRealize Suite
Lifecycle Manager, copy binaries, and then start the installation process which depends on the
network speed. After the vRealize Automation installation, you can also start configuring vRealize
Log Insight. For more information, see How do I configure log forwarding to vRealize Log Insight
in Administering vRealize Automation.
Watch the vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager Migration with Easy Installer video:
Migration of vRealize Suite Lifecycle with Easy Installer
(http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid2296383276001?
bctid=ref:video_LCM_migrate)
Procedure
3 Accept the License Agreement and click Next. Read the Customer Experience Improvement
Program and select the check box to join the program.
4 To specify vCenter Server details, enter these details on the Appliance Deployment Target
tab.
5 Click Next and you are prompted with a Certificate Warning, click Accept to proceed.
b Expand to any data center and map your deployment to a specific VM folder.
a Expand the data center tree to an appropriate resource location and click Next.
8 On the Select a Storage Location tab, select a datastore to store your deployment, and click
Next.
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9 On the Network Configuration and Password Configuration tabs, set up your Network and
Password configuration by entering the required fields, and clicking Next.
a For a vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager VM, enter the NTP Server for the appliance and
click Next.
b Provide configuration information. Enter the Data Center Name, vCenter Name and
Increase the Disk Space fields.
c Click Next.
11 One the Migration Details tab, provide your source environment details and click Next
12 Select either Install New VMware Identity Manager or Import Existing VMware Identity
Manager.
a If installing a new VMware Identity Manager, enter the VMware Identity Manager
configuration and click Next.
b If importing an existing VMware Identity Manager, review the notes about using an
existing VMware Identity Manager and click Next.
Note After importing your existing VMware Identity Manager, you must upgrade it to
version 3.3.2 to make it compatible with vRealize Automation 8.2 components.
Results
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How do I launch my installed
applications 3
After using the easy installer to install your applications, you can view the deployed applications
and their dashboards.
You can open the vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager and vRealize Automation applications by
clicking the IP addresses on the installation process window.
Note If the Easy Installer was launched with a Linux OS, clicking the links in the Installation
Process window might not open a browser. Manually copy and paste the url into a browser to
access the desired application.
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After clicking the IP address from the installation process window, login using the same
credentials that you entered in the vRealize Easy Installer. To view requests, click Lifecycle
Operations and click on the request to open its details. At the request level, you can view the
different stages of the request along with the time each stage took.
To view information on your Workspace ONE Access and vRealize Automation applications, click
Environments and select the appropriate application tile.
You can also monitor request statuses from vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager by clicking Request
from the left pane. If an application request fails, click the failed status to view more details. After
identifying and correcting reasons for failure, click Retry to retry request or Redeploy to
redeploy the environment.
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Post-Installation Tasks
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After installing your applications using the vRealize Easy Installer, you can perform these post-
installation tasks in vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager.
Depending on the needs and configuration of your system, you might have to perform these
post-installation tasks:
n Configure vRealize Automation license. For more information on License Configuration for
vRealize Automation through vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager, see Configure License within
Locker.
n Generate a certificate for products deployed in vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager. For more
information, see Generate Certificate within Locker.
n Configure Active Directory Groups in vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager. For more information,
seeAdd Active Directory with Integrated Windows Authentication Active Directory over
LDAP.
n Configure vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager appliance root password outside vRealize Easy
Installer. For more information, see Configure your Password within Locker.
n Configure and replace license for vRealize Automation. For more information, see Replacing
of License.
n Perform an Inventory Sync after installing vRealize Automation to identify the current state of
vRealize Automation deployment.
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