As the IT professional setting up a proof of concept environment to evaluate vRealize Automation, you want to temporarily configure network-to-Amazon VPC connectivity to support the vRealize Automation Software feature.
About this task
Network-to-Amazon VPC connectivity is only required if you want to use the guest agent to customize provisioned machines, or if you want to include Software components in your blueprints. For a production environment, you would configure this connectivity officially through Amazon Web Services, but because you are working in a proof of concept environment, you want to create temporary network-to-Amazon VPC connectivity. You establish the SSH tunnel and then configure an Amazon reservation in vRealize Automation to route through your tunnel.
Prerequisites
Install and fully configure vRealize Automation. See Install and Configure a vRealize Automation Proof of Concept Deployment for Rainpole.
Create an Amazon AWS security group called TunnelGroup and configure it to allow access on port 22.
Create or identify a CentOS machine in your Amazon AWS TunnelGroup security group and note the following configurations:
Administrative user credentials, for example root.
Public IP address.
Private IP address.
Create or identify a CentOS machine on the same local network as your vRealize Automation installation.
Install OpenSSH SSHD Server on both tunnel machines.
Procedure
What to do next
Install the software bootstrap agent and the guest agent on a Windows or Linux reference machine to create an Amazon Machine Image that your IaaS architects can use to create blueprints. See Preparing for Software Provisioning.
Configure your Amazon reservation in vRealize Automation to route through your SSH tunnel. See Scenario: Create an Amazon Reservation for a Proof of Concept Environment.