vSAN and vROps Certification

VMware vSAN 2017 Specialist and VMware vRealize Operations 2017 Specialist are 2 new certificate introduced by VMware this month.


VMware vSAN 2017 Speciallist digital badge holders understand the vSAN 6.6 architecture and its complete feature set and know how to conduct a vSAN design and deployment exercise. Exam Code: 2VB-601.

VMware vRealize Operations 2017 Specialist digital badge shows that you can plan, manage, and help scale SDDC and multi-cloud environments through unified monitoring, automated performance management, cloud planning and capacity optimization. This badge and associated requirements cover vRealize Operations 6.2 through vRealize Operations 6.5. Exam Code: 2VB-602.

Source of infomation VMware Blog

VRA IDM User Password update

Today I got an interesting question from one of my friend “How can we change the Password of the vSphere.local domain users in VRA created while creating a new tenant?”

After a lot of search from VMware community i find a link, which give me some tips to solve the same.

 https://www.helloitscraig.co.uk/2016/07/managing-local-users-powervra.html

I found this post very helpful, thanks to the author.

So What do I need? 

First I updated my PowerShell to version 5 alteast. (System will be restart)

Second I downloaded PowerCLI 6 (may not be required)

Launch Powershell

Run the following cmdlet: Save-Module PowerVRA –Path c:\

Install-Module –Name PowerVRA

Once the Module is installed we are ready to run VRA commands, so first we need to initialized the connection to vra tenant where the user is defined

For example: connect-vraserver –Server sa-vra-01.vclass.local  -Tenant Eng -UserName vraadmin@vsphere.local

It will prompt to type the password of the user.

Once the connection is initialized use the following command to list all users in Tenant.

Get-VRAUserPrincipal

So identify the user (ID of the user) whose password you want to modify and run the following command.

First we declare a variable to store the secure string (Password you want to set for the user)

Then run the following command to change the password ($var1)

$var1 = ConvertTo-SecureString “Pa$$w0rd” -AsplainText -Force

Set-vRAUserPrincipal -Id vraadmin@vclass.local -Password $var1

The password will change. :)