vRA - Blueprinting 101 - P8 - External BP Input Values

In this part we look at using external actions to populate inputs for use in a blueprint. allowing more smarts and logic based on user selection.

[sampathreddy]

Thank you so much for making this video.🥰🥰🥰

[eduardonobrega]

Thank you for the video.
For me that is starting with vRA this is great because it's difficult to find those simple tasks online and so well explained

[SLMdirtfan]

I've really enjoyed your Blueprinting videos. Would you know a way to incorporate time of lease into blueprinting? In vRA 7.x we had a lease range were users could deploye VMs anywhere between 1 - 60 days. I haven't figured out away to do this in vRA 8. I've looked at a lease policy but that only allows me to define a Max lease amount. Thanks again for the vids!

[umitdemirtas]

Quick question, why do i need to perform this operation on cloud assembly? I can use Service Broker, then external values help me. What arr the benefits here?

[jlevak]

Hi Scott, is it possible to do the same thing so that the dropdown menu can be populated from MS SQL data? I've prepared a workflow which gives me the result from query, but not so sure how to convert everything into action. Seems to me that action doesn't have all the options (maybe via Powershell).

[ratheeshpanampilly]

Thanks fot the video. How can I customize vm(MAC address type, MAC address, VLAN) using vRO. in vRO7.5 I was using . Looking similar option in vRA8