VMware vRealize Automation: Advanced Features and Troubleshooting [V8.x] — Lesson 3: Day-two actions, resource actions, leases, approvals, policies, multi-cloud deployments, onboarding, drift, updates, decommissioning, and governance

Learning Objectives

• Translate a realistic infrastructure or application requirement into an executable approach for Day-two actions, resource actions, leases, approvals, policies, multi-cloud deployments, onboarding, drift, updates, decommissioning, and governance.
• Use day-two governance matrix and action-execution record to verify configuration, connectivity, security, and expected behavior.
• Explain how to recover safely when an onboarded resource missing metadata required by policy evaluation occurs.

Detailed Topics

• Day-two actions
• Resource actions
• Leases
• Approvals
• Policies
• Multi-cloud deployments
• Onboarding
• Drift
• Updates
• Decommissioning
• And governance
• Decision ownership, prerequisites, and acceptance evidence for Day-two actions, resource actions, leases, approvals, policies, multi-cloud deployments, onboarding, drift, updates, decommissioning, and governance
• Relevant access, security, capacity, dependency, performance, recovery, and support considerations

Instructor Demonstration

The instructor builds a representative scenario for Day-two actions, resource actions, leases, approvals, policies, multi-cloud deployments, onboarding, drift, updates, decommissioning, and governance, narrating each decision and showing how it contributes to an advanced vRealize Automation 8.x service with extensible templates, event-driven workflows, governed day-two operations, and a disciplined troubleshooting model across platform integrations. The demonstration records day-two governance matrix and action-execution record so learners can compare design intent with observable behavior.

Hands-On Exercise

Configure and test Day-two actions, resource actions, leases, approvals, policies, multi-cloud deployments, onboarding, drift, updates, decommissioning, and governance with representative infrastructure or application data. Use “an onboarded resource missing metadata required by policy evaluation” as the troubleshooting challenge, compare hypotheses, retest the affected path, and complete day-two governance matrix and action-execution record for review.

1. Define the requirement and identify dependencies before changing the environment.
2. Create a baseline result that can be compared with later changes.
3. Reproduce the exception and test one hypothesis at a time.
4. Complete the evidence record and obtain peer or instructor review.

Scenario Analysis

• Clarify the service trigger, affected components and roles, prerequisites, and acceptable result for Day-two actions, resource actions, leases, approvals, policies, multi-cloud deployments, onboarding, drift, updates, decommissioning, and governance.
• Compare at least two implementation or correction choices and identify which evidence would distinguish them.
• Decide how day-two governance matrix and action-execution record should be reviewed, approved, retained, and handed to the next owner.

Troubleshooting Guidance

Avoid changing multiple settings at once while troubleshooting Day-two actions, resource actions, leases, approvals, policies, multi-cloud deployments, onboarding, drift, updates, decommissioning, and governance. Preserve the failing example, review day-two governance matrix and action-execution record, and verify whether “an onboarded resource missing metadata required by policy evaluation” is the root cause. After remediation, confirm downstream effects and add a monitoring action.

Validation Checklist

• The scope of Day-two actions, resource actions, leases, approvals, policies, multi-cloud deployments, onboarding, drift, updates, decommissioning, and governance is clear, including what is deliberately excluded from the test.
• Evidence in day-two governance matrix and action-execution record supports each material decision and outcome.
• A negative test demonstrates that controls reject or expose an invalid condition.
• Open risks, owners, due actions, and production safeguards are documented.

Lesson Outcome

Learners can apply Day-two actions, resource actions, leases, approvals, policies, multi-cloud deployments, onboarding, drift, updates, decommissioning, and governance, explain the decisions made, and defend the result with day-two governance matrix and action-execution record.