Succeeding with vRealize Automation (vRA)

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If you’re always trying to keep up with the best practices in the industry – and like most professionals, are trying to be more effective in your role – this webinar is for you.  In this session, you will hear from two experts on best practices that can enable you to do more with vRealize. 

Get an overview into various use-cases of VRA and how you can integrate the Pure Storage FlashArray with VMware vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) and vRealize Automation (vRA). vRO is VMware’s orchestration tool that provides plugins and various APIs to control and manage any part of your infrastructure. vRA offers a self-service provisioning web interface that enables customers to build and customize their own multi-tenant private cloud with minimal effort. vRA leverages workflows inside vRO to provide “Anything-as-a-Service” (XaaS) in order to provide self-service, with as granular role-based-access control and allocations limits as desired with any part of your infrastructure.

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Speakers:

Cody Hosterman is a Technical Director for virtualization ecosystem integration at Pure Storage. He mainly focuses on the core VMware vSphere virtualization platform, VMware cloud and management applications and 3rd party products. He has a deep background in virtualization and storage technologies, including experience as a Solutions Engineer and Principal Virtualization Technologist.  In his current position, he is responsible for VMware integration strategy, best practices, and developing new integrations and documentation.

Mr. Hosterman has spoken internationally on the topics of virtualization and storage at numerous conferences and events such as VMworld and various virtualization-related user groups and trade shows.  He is the author of several technical whitepapers and guides related to virtualization, storage, and data center infrastructure. He is the co-author or contributor to multiple technical reference books and his frequently-updated personal blog contains his latest work and contributions. Mr. Hosterman has over 7 years of experience in virtualization and storage in various technical capacities.  He is a VMware vExpert, and holds a bachelor’s degree from The Pennsylvania State University in Information Sciences & Technology. Cody tweets at @codyhosterman

Jon Harris is a Healthcare Architect at VMware He is a seasoned Systems Admin with skills ranging from networking technologies to Microsoft Technologies to virtualization solutions.  Jon spends a great deal of his free time researching new technologies and being active in the VMware community. Jon is a co-leader for the New Mexico VMUG and plans/coordinates vBeers in New Mexico. 

He is currently an Inside Cloud Management Specialist for VMware where he spends most of his time working with customers to show them the value they can get out of VMware Management, Operations, and Automation solutions.  In past roles he has spent most of his time supporting the virtual infrastructure and working on initiatives around automating VM provisioning and IaaS. He has been doing IT for more than 12 years now. He started his career doing IT consulting in the SMB space, moved in to the enterprise space back in 2009, and has been working with VMware for 5 years now. Blogs at http://virtumaster.com/ and tweets at @JonOnDaCloud.