Restoring the vApp properties in Aria Operations for Logs (formerly vRealize Log Insight)

Products

• VMware Aria Suite

Issue/Introduction

vRealize Operations for Logs depends on accurate vApp properties in order to boot and configure its network.
In some cases, such as restore from backup or disaster recovery using SRM, those properties might get lost.
This article describes how to restore the vApp properties of vRealize Operations Manager.

Note: vApp Properties are only visible in the Flash version of the vSphere Web Client.

Environment

VMware vRealize Log Insight 4.x
VMware vRealize Log Insight 8.x
Aria Operations 8.12 and later

Resolution

Procedure for re-creating the vApp properties using the vCenter UI:

1. Log into the vCenter UI as an Administrator.
2. Right-Click the vRealize Log Insight node VM and select Power > Shut Down Guest OS.
3. Right-Click the vRealize Log Insight node VM and select Edit Settings.
4. Navigate to the vApp Options tab.
5. Check Enable vApp options.
6. Under Authoring, expand Product and set Name to vRealize Log Insight Appliance.
7. Expand IP allocation and set the IP protocol to IPv4 or IPv6 (if you are using IPv6).
8. Expand OVF settings and set the OVF environment transport to VMware Tools.
9. Expand Properties then click on the New button to create a new property.
10. Create the property in accordance to the attached vrlivappproperties.xlsx spreadsheet.
11. Click OK.
12. Repeat steps 9-11 for all properties in the attached vrlivappproperties.xlsx spreadsheet.
13. Expand Networking Properties and configure the correct DNS, Default Gateway, Network IP Address, and Network Netmask.
14. Click OK.
15. Repeat steps 2-15 on all other affected vRealize Log Insight nodes.
16. Power on the vRealize Log Insight VMs.