Procedure to Restart Only the Aria Orchestrator Service.

Products

• VCF Operations/Automation (formerly VMware Aria Suite)

Issue/Introduction

Sometimes, after applying configuration changes within VMware Aria Orchestrator, it may be necessary to restart only the Orchestrator service or its associated components/pods without performing a full appliance reboot. 

Note: The command "vracli vro restart" is no longer available.

Environment

VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator 8.x
VMware Aria Automation 8.x

Cause

n/a

Resolution

See the below procedure for restarting vRO pods only. 

First Procedure : Reinitialize each vco-app pod using Kubernetes Delete command

1. SSH into the Automation Orchestrator 8.x appliance.
2. Verify the pods by running kubectl get pods -n prelude.
3. Run kubectl delete pod -n prelude vco-app<UUID> for each pod instance.
4. Wait for the pod to rebuild.

Second Procedure: Reinitialize each vco-app pod using Kubernetes SCALE/UP commands

1. SSH into the Automation Orchestrator 8.x appliance.
2. Verify how many vco-app instances are running from kubectl get pods -n prelude.
3. Run commands to scale down replicas to Zero:
   
   kubectl scale deployment orchestration-ui-app --replicas=0 -n prelude
kubectl scale deployment vco-app --replicas=0 -n prelude sleep 120


4. Run commands to scale up Replicas based on Single deployment (1) or Clustered Deployment (3):
   
   kubectl scale deployments orchestration-ui-app --replicas=1 -n prelude
kubectl scale deployment vco-app --replicas=1 -n prelude