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MS-A2 VCF 9.0 Lab: Configuring VCF Automation

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This post is part of a short series that builds on our minimal VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0 deployment (2x Minisforum MS-A2) and showcases how to fully leverage the exciting new capabilities in the VCF 9 platform, all while maintaining a minimal resource footprint, which is ideal for lab and learning purposes.

In this blog post, we will walk through the initial setup of VCF Automation (VCFA) using the Provider Admin Portal and creating your first VCFA Organization that will allow users to request and consume resources from the vSphere Supervisor and NSX VPC Networking that we had configured earlier.


Here are some additional VCF Automation Resources that might be of interests if you would like to learn more:

Requirements:

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Quick Tip - Workaround for failed VCFABinding for connecting VCF 9.0 Automation to Data Services Manager (DSM)

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I recently deployed the latest release of VMware Data Services Manager (DSM) 9.0 in my VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0 lab to explore the new integration with VCF Automation (VCFA), allowing organizations to enable a true Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) for their users.

While setting up the connection from VCFA to DSM, I ran into the following error:

VCFABinding CR is not ready in 50 seconds, with reason: VCFABinding CR is not ready: failed to create VCFA TM client: Get "https://auto01.vcf.lab:443/api/versions": tls: failed to verify certificate: x509: certificate signed by unknown authority

From the error message, it looks like DSM is having an issue validating the self-signed TLS certificate from VCFA, which I figured most users would be using, especially within a lab environment.


After a bit of searching around, I came to learn this was a known issue mentioned in the DSM Release Notes and it pointed to this Broadcom KB 398007, that outlined the solution but it was still missing some details.

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