Last week, VMware released a knowledge base article KB 95536, which includes a script for fixing the LCM service on SDDC Manager. Due to an invalid index file that was recently pushed to the VMware depot, the LCM service on SDDC Manager has downloaded several incorrect upgrade bundles. This is the reason why the LCM […]
In VCF 5.x, the endpoint for modifying the input values of failed tasks in SDDC Manager is hidden/disabled by default for security purposes. NOTE: For security reasons It shouldn’t be unhidden and if you need it on your prod environment,please contact GSS In VCF 4.x this functionality it’s enabled and in one of my previous […]
It may happen that decommission a host task in SDDC Manager will fail and no matter what you try to do it’s not possible to remove it successfully. This blog post explains how to connect to the embedded vPostgres Database of a SDDC Manager and remove ‘orphaned’ hosts objects with ERROR status. NOTE!!! you shouldn’t […]
In this blog post i will describe what is going on in the background when ‘./sos –stretch-vsan’ command is initiated. It’s not a rocket science because all these steps are done when you stretch cluster manually but i thought it can be helpful for someone who never did that. Some tasks are described as ‘all […]
Today i will focus on steps that should be taken to skip failed task and restart workflow in SDDC Manager on VxRack to complete it with SUCCESS. Next post will be dedicated to show how resolve an issue with ‘Configure new vCenters and ESXi hosts from workload domain in vRLI’ subtask. I encountered an issue […]
When you try logged in to SDDC manager using proper credentials you can find message “You do not have proper privileges…” and you can get some delays in SSH connection until you get logged in. Restart of SDDC Manager Web Service is not working: ‘systemctl‘ and ‘shutdown -h now‘ don’t work as well. But we […]