TCPWave, a leading DDI (DNS, DHCP, and IPAM) solutions provider, has introduced a new IPAM plugin for VMware's vRA 8.2 and vRA Cloud. The plugin provides seamless integration with vRA Cloud Assembly using Action Based Extensibility (ABX), VMware's serverless function capability. With these extensibility actions, the TCPWave plugin allows you to allocate IP space for networks, allocate IP addresses for virtual machines, create DNS records for these new VMs, and cleanup unused resources. TCPWave IPAM's extensible attributes provide additional capabilities to store valuable data about your VMware deployments and resources.
The TCPWave plugin for vRA 8.2 extends your TCPWave DDI services into the VMware cloud management environment. With TCPWave, you can automate IPAM and DNS services when deploying or tearing down VMware on-prem/cloud resources.
Simplify IT Operations
Increased Efficiency
Enhanced Security
Improved Visibility
The TCPWave plugin is the first enterprise to develop SSL authentication from vRA 8.2 to the DNS management ecosystem. It is important to note that a plain text username and password are not supported for the API handshake. It is mandatory to use an SSL cert when vRA communicates with TCPWave. The vRealize Automation plugin for IPAM provides an out of the box integration between the TCPWave portal and vRealize Automation catalog and governance model. Provisioned VMs and machines seamlessly obtain their IP addresses, DNS configuration, and gateway information from TCPWave IPAM.
A user or administrator specifies an IPAM endpoint in vRA that enables communication with TCPWave IPAM. After the endpoint is defined, the TCPWave IPAM service is accessible from the vRA user interface, and administrators can choose IP address ranges from TCPWave IPAM. The APIs provided by the service allows users to retrieve the list of available IP ranges, allocate a subrange of IPs, and deallocate a subrange of IPs.
The TCPWave plugin for VMware vRA provides seamless integration with vRA Cloud Assembly using ABX. The plugin automates IPAM and DNS services, simplifying IT operations and increasing efficiency. SSL authentication ensures secure communication between vRA and TCPWave, providing an additional layer of security to your SDDC environment. Automation provides a centralized self-service portal, standardization, capacity planning, workload deployments, availability and performance, financial management, governance, and more. TCPWave's IPAM plugin for VMware's vRealize Automation (vRA) is a perfect example of how automation can enhance your software-defined data center (SDDC) journey.
