Two weeks ago VCF 4.3.1 has been released and few hours later I had an opportunity to test upgrade procedure. In this post I will show you how to upgrade VCF software, NSX-T, vCenter, ESXi hosts and vRealize Suite components if you have vRealize Suite deployed in your environment. It’s a pretty straight forward process. […]
Connect to psql ( ssh to vRLSCM ): 2. Select password vmid you want to replace to find password alias of that vmid: 3. Update vmid of password aliad with vmid you want to replace with:
Zapraszam wszystkich na drugie w tym roku spotkanie Poland VMUG, które odbędzie się 18 maja 2021. Tym razem będę miał przyjemność opowiedzieć o upgrajdzie VMware Cloud Foundation 4.0 do 4.1 ale z perspektywy wybranych komponentów vRealize Suite ( vRSLCM, vIDM, vRLI, vROPS, vNI). Zapraszam serdecznie. Rejestracja: https://community.vmug.com/events/event-description?CalendarEventKey=6172308e-a1c5-4e02-a9e2-71e59e643b68&CommunityKey=6558a847-c2b3-44a7-8278-d2daf29efc80&Home=%2fcommunities%2fcommunity-home%2frecent-community-events
To configure a file-based backup schedule for the SDDC Manager VM you must use the Cloud Foundation API because it’s not possible to configure it via GUI. BUT, before you can use the VMware Cloud Foundation API to configure a backup schedule, you must enable the feature creating properties file (feature.properties) in the /home/vcf directory […]
First run this command to dump the instance names for all instances in the system: and now just execute the command (replace ‘lsi_mr3-544a842043a54a00/LSI Incorporation’ with the Key Value Instance you received as the output of previous command) : That’s it 🙂 Any questions, comments? Just ping me.
In this post, which is third of a number of posts on VCF 4 on VxRail, we wil rename default VxRail cluster components names before VCF bring-up. Once the VxRail cluster is installed and configured, a default names are assigned to the Datacenter, cluster, vDS, portgroups and vSAN Datastore in the vCenter Server inventory. Once […]
In the previous post I showed how to automate initial VxRail cluster configuration and deployment with Ansible. In this post, which is the next of a number of posts on VCF 4 on VxRail I will show you how to externalize embedded vCenter. As you know, by default, VMware vCenter server is internal to the […]
A few weeks ago VxRail 7.0.10 was released and one of the many new features is that provides enhanced workflows and an API to support automation of initial cluster configuration and deployment. There is a great Dell EMC VxRail RESTful API Cookbook and it provides sample VxRail RESTful API workflows. You can find there even […]
As we all know, lazy sysadmin is the best sysadmin so even few clicks may cause you feel exhausted. That’s why I wrote Ansible role to automate VCF Cloud Builder deployment using ‘vmware_deploy_ovf’ module. Of course some OVA property keys were needed, but they can be found under ProductSection in OVF descriptor. This ansible role is for […]
If your VCF bring-up process ended with some failures “Bring-up has completed with failure…” or when you’re trying to run deploy once again and you are getting “Bringup already exists” message or even if you want to re-use existing VMware Cloud Builder to go through the VMware Cloud Foundation bring-up process multiple times (and you […]