Mayank Goyal

What if you could generate professional-grade, real-time resource graphs—like Host CPU/Memory utilization—and store them directly as Image Resource Elements inside vRO itself? Today, I will be talking about one such POC in this post. By combining the power of vRO’s Python Action Environments, the pyVmomi SDK, and Matplotlib, and vro’s ByteBuffer clss, we will try to turn vRO into a graphing…

For years, vroapi.com has been a favorite resource for VCF Operations Orchestrator (vRO) developers. However, since last few year, their original developers moved away to different fields which left the website unattended and troubled by certificate issues, outdated data, and lack of maintenance, leaving it almost impossible to use effectively. Enter (https://modernvroapi.in) – a complete…

When working with cloud templates in VMware Aria Automation Assembler, you’ll notice various types of lines connecting resources on the design canvas. These visual indicators represent different relationship types between infrastructure components. Understanding these connection types is critical for proper template design and successful deployments. Explicit Dependencies: Solid Arrows Explicit…

In a single-threaded world, 1 + 1 always equals 2. But in a high-concurrency environment like VCF Orchestrator (vRO), 1 + 1 can sometimes equal 1. This phenomenon is known as a Race Condition, and it’s the primary cause of duplication in scenarios like IP allocations and unique naming conventions, etc. The Problem: The “Read-Modify-Write” Gap Most vRO developers store shared data (like the next…

I am excited to release version 2.0.0 of the vRO Code Editor Resizer Chrome extension — a major update driven by feedback from the community. After focused development over the past two days, this release resolves the key issues that users have been facing and enhances usability across the board. Read my earlier release blog here. Download here 👉 Google Chrome Webstore link What’s New in…

As VCF Automation 9 is out, it promises on more features in its All Apps Organization construct but I suspect, it would lack it too despite the fact that it can integrate with Argo CD (a GitOps tool). However, I will probably do another write-up for 9.x once I finish testing it completely. VMware Aria Automation offers robust Infrastructure as Code (IaC) through YAML cloud templates and seamless…

VM advanced parameters (extraConfig in .vmx) provide granular control beyond standard vSphere UI settings. We can use them for troubleshooting, performance tuning, security hardening, application-specific fixes. Why Use Advanced Config Parameters? Primary Use Cases: VMware Support…

One of my team members discovered this information, and we were quite surprised to learn that such a limitation exists in SRM, of which we were previously unaware. Overview When using SRM / Live Recovery in VMware Cloud Foundation, OVF (vApp) properties are not preserved automatically during failover. This is a known limitation and is documented by Broadcom here. You have to manually record…

You can use a Java SDK library to call operations on the Automation Orchestrator REST API in Java applications and work directly with objects. Every RESTful Web service of the Automation Orchestrator REST SDK has a wrapping Java class with methods that correspond to the operations that can be run by using the service. Run a Workflow and Wait for Its Completion The following example code runs a…

Running Python polyglot code as an Action (not in a Scriptable Task) is the correct and supported way to return structured outputs like Properties into an Aria Automation Orchestrator workflow.​ Background When working with polyglot runtimes (Python, Node.js, PowerShell) in Aria Automation Orchestrator, it is natural to try running the code directly inside a Scriptable Task. However, Scriptable…