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e Wait for the machine to start, which might take up to 5 minutes.
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If you deployed the vRealize Automation appliance to vCloud using vCloud Director, vCloud
might override the password that you entered during OVA deployment. To prevent the override,
take the following steps.
a After deploying in vCloud Director, click your vApp to view the vRealize Automation
appliance.
b Right-click the vRealize Automation appliance, and select Properties.
c Click the Guest OS Customization tab.
d Under Password Reset, clear the Allow local administrator password option, and click OK.
e Power on the vRealize Automation appliance.
f Wait for the machine to start, which might take up to 5 minutes.
To verify that you successfully deployed the appliance, open a command prompt and ping the FQDN of the
vRealize Automation appliance.
What to do next
Repeat this procedure to deploy additional instances of the vRealize Automation appliance for redundancy
in a high-availability environment.
Configuring Your Load Balancer
After you deploy the appliances for vRealize Automation, you can set up a load balancer to distribute trac
among multiple instances of the vRealize Automation appliance.
The following list provides an overview of the general steps required to congure a load balancer for
vRealize Automation trac:
1 Install your load balancer.
2 Enable session anity, also known as sticky sessions.
3 Ensure that the timeout on the load balancer is at least 100 seconds.
4 If your network or load balancer requires it, import a certicate to your load balancer. For information
about trust relationships and certicates, see “Certicate Trust Requirements in a Distributed
Deployment,” on page 63. For information about extracting certicates, see “Extracting Certicates and
Private Keys,” on page 29
5 Congure the load balancer for vRealize Automation appliance trac.
6 Congure the appliances for vRealize Automation. See “Conguring Appliances for vRealize
Automation,” on page 68.
N When you set up virtual appliances under the load balancer, do so only for virtual appliances that
have been congured for use with vRealize Automation. If uncongured appliances are set up, you see fault
responses.
For information about scalability and high availability, see the vRealize Automation Reference Architecture
guide.
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