Before you deploy vRealize Automation verify that your environment fulfills the requirements for this deployment.

Verify that your environment satisfies the following prerequisites for the deployment of vRealize Automation.

Prerequisite

Value

Storage

  • Virtual disk provisioning: Thin

  • Required storage: 670 GB

Software Features

  • Verify that Management domain vCenter Server is operational.

  • Verify that the Workload domain NSX or NSX-T Manager is operational.

  • Verify that the application virtual networks are available.

  • Verify that the load balancer service is enabled on the NSX Edge service gateway.

  • Verify that vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager is operational and data collection from the Management vCenter Server instance has run successfully.

  • Verify that static IP addresses and FQDNs for the application virtual networks are available for the vRealize Automation deployment. See Host Names and IP Addresses for vRealize Suite 2019 and Workspace ONE Access.

License

Verify that you obtained a vRealize Suite or vCloud Suite license that satisfies the requirements of this design.

Active Directory

Workspace ONE Access

  • Verify that the required Active Directory users are synchronized to the cross-region Workspace ONE Access.

  • Verify that the required Active Directory security groups users synchronized to the cross-region Workspace ONE Access.

Certification Authority

Verify that you have a validate SSL certificate. You can generate the certificate using the CertGenVVD utility. See Certificate Generation Utility for VMware Validated Design for Software-Defined Data Center 6.x (78246).

External Services

  • Verify that you have access to an SMTP server.

  • Verify that SNMP is enabled in your network environment, to monitor network devices.

  • Verify that central NTP services are available.

  • Verify that all DNS addresses resolve both forward and reverse.