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Finding vRA Virtual Machines upon successful Catalog Item Request Completed event

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Purpose When it comes to capturing events from vRA 7.x+ through the means of EBS and performing an action through vRO, we need to be specifically aware of the different type of events and what kind of attributes they will carry. Overall vRA provides a decent information during subscription creation, however, some of the event attributes might pose challenges working with. In addition some of the events could be blocking ones, which means they would block the vRA execution until the vRO WF has completed with successful status. These events are useful when you want control over the vRA process and ability to influence it's completion. I've recently had to design a method in which the vRA Blueprint, containing several VMs are automatically placed in vSphere DRS VM Affinity groups after the Blueprint is successfully provisioned. For this purpose I've decided I have to wait for the complete Blueprint to be provisioned and only after that to hook in and perform the orchestr