vRA and Infoblox Integration

Hi,

Today we will integrate Infoblox IPAM with vRealize Automation.

Infoblox Configuration

We will need to deploy the Infoblox Appliance to our VMware environment
Make initial network configuration.
Login to the web-interface
The Installation Wizard will start automatically. In this case we configure it as a standalone appliance.
Assign the IP address and the FQDN.
Change the admin password
Add NTP server.
Review and press Finish
Now we have to Setup GRID.
Set a GRID name and other requested info
Set the IP Addresses
If you want to change password do it.
Confirm that the correct NTP chosen.
Review and Finish
Now we need to goto Administration->Extensible Attributes
Add the required for vRA attributes
Go To Data Management and add Subnet.
We need to create cloudadmin account which will work with cloud-api (don’t forget to apply the cloud automation license to Infoblox)
I give full permission to cloud-api-only as it is in test environment.
Add Microsoft Servers so we can get the AD-Integrated DNS Synced.

SSH or Console to your vRA Appliance and start vco-configurator service as it is disabled by default.
Go To vRO Control Center
Use your Credentials.
Go To Manage Plug-Ins
Browse to your Plugin and press Install. Don’t Forget to save changes.
Now we need to add Infoblox Certificate to the trusted store of vRO.
Simply Import it from the infobox URL
Now we are ready to go to vRO
Browse through the library to Infoblox ->vRA->Installation->Setup Wizard
I have vRA and IaaS Hosts already added to vRO. And it is not needed to add them once again.

Create new Endpoint IPAM->Infoblox. Use cloudadmin account we created in the first section and go to properties and add new: Infoblox.IPAM.APIType = Cloud API
Create new External Network Profile
Choose Infoblox as an EndPoint. In Network Ranges you will see the Infoblox Range you already created choose it.
Go to Reservations and edit the one where you want to Add Infoblox.
In network tab choose Network Profile ->Infoblox.