October was a very busy month for VMware and the community starting with VMworld and the whirlwind of announcements that come with it. The vExpert Cloud Management community also got special sneak previews of the latest releases of vRealize Cloud Management products as well as VMware Skyline Pro which you can read about in the blogs below and on the VMware Cloud Management Blog. Now that these latest products have been released, the vExpert community has been hard at work upgrading their labs and sharing their experiences.

Every month, we gather blogs from the 130+ members of the vExpert Cloud Management program and bring you a digest of all the latest happenings from around the community. These blogs are written by industry professionals and often feature walkthroughs, feature highlights, and news for vRealize Operations, vRealize Network Insight, vRealize Log Insight, vRealize Automation, and VMware Skyline. The vExpert title is awarded to individuals who dedicate their time outside of work to share their experiences and useful information about VMware products with the rest of the community. Below, you will find a digest of the blogs written by the community in October of 2021.

vRealize Cloud Management and Lifecycle Manager Related Blogs

vRealize – Whats New October 2021 by Rudi Martinsen (@RudiMartinsen) Norway

vRealize Cloud Management Updates by Brock Peterson (@bpatvmware) United States

vRealize 8.6 Updates via vRSLCM by Brock Peterson (@bpatvmware) United States

Upgrading vRSLCM (vRealize Lifecycle Manager) to 8.6 by Cosmin Trif (@cosm0_) United States

Upgrading vIDM (VMware Identity Manager ) to 3.3.5 via vRSLCM by Cosmin Trif (@cosm0_) United States

Skyline Related Blogs

VMware announced Skyline Advisor Pro by Piotr Masztafiak (@pmaszt) Poland

vRealize Automation and SaltStack Related Blogs

What’s New in VMware vRealize Automation 8.6 by Randhir Chaubey (@randhirchaubey) India

What’s new in vRealize Automation 8.5.x and 8.6 by Razvan Ionescu (@ravatheodor) Romania

VMware vRealize SaltStack Config as a Windows Server Admin – Part 5 by Dale Hassinger (@dalehassinger) United States

VMware vRealize SaltStack Config as a Windows Server Admin – Part 6 by Dale Hassinger (@dalehassinger) United States

SaltConf 2021 – SaltStack Config Session by Dale Hassinger (@dalehassinger) United States

SaltStack Config Error Code: LCMVSSC10018 by Cosmin Trif (@cosm0_) United States

Wednesday Tidbit: Ensure you add Perl to your Linux Templates for vRealize Automation 8.x by Mark Brookfield (@virtualhobbit) Great Britain

Cloudbase-Init with vRealize Automation and vSphere – No CD Drive! by Michael Poore (@mpoore) Great Britain

How to create vRO Dynamic Types for vRA Custom Resources by Dean Lewis (@saintdle) Great Britain

Upgrading vRA (vRealize Automation) to 8.6 by Cosmin Trif (@cosm0_) United States

VRA Cloud – Python ABX action to send the VM provisioning status alerts to Slack & Microsoft teams by Ankush (@ankush11s) India

vRealize Operations Related Blogs

vRealize Operations 8.6 announced at VMworld! by Alain Geenrits (@alaingeenrits) Belgium

vROPS 8.6 UI Navigation – Where is it now? by Cosmin Trif (@cosm0_) United States

vROPS 8.6 Administration – Where is it now? by Cosmin Trif (@cosm0_) United States

vROps 8.6 How to Create Alert Definitions Using Conditions by Lan Nguyen (@LanVMware) United States

Upgrading vROPS (vRealize Operations) to 8.6 via the .pak file by Cosmin Trif (@cosm0_) United States

Again helping the community (Script to find what vCenter is managing a VM using vROps) by Kabir Ali (@_Kabir_Ali_) Netherlands

vRealize Log Insight Related Blogs

Using vRealize Log Insight Cloud to archive on-premises Log Insight Data by Dean Lewis (@saintdle) Great Britain

vRealize Log Insight Cloud Migration Guide by Munishpal Makhija (@munishpal_singh) United States

Capturing Logs with the vRLI Linux Agent by Brock Peterson (@bpatvmware) United States

Log Insight node fails to start by Paul E. Grevink (@PaulGrevink) Netherlands

vRealize Network Insight Related Blogs

VMware vRealize Network Insight 6.4 and Cloud by Piotr Masztafiak (@pmaszt) Poland

Upgrading vRNI (vRealize Network Insight) to 6.4.0 via vRSLCM by Cosmin Trif (@cosm0_) United States