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NSX-ALB: Aria Operations for Logs as a syslog over TLS

Configuring the syslog to use TLS streamed over TCP for NSX ALB can only be accomplished through the console because these aren’t exposed via UI. The user interface only allows the specification of UDP. I used self-signed certificates for the AVI controller and AOL, but the process is identical when using CA-signed certificates. 1. Firstly, […]

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VCF on VxRail: Edge VM Present in NSX Inventory Not Present in vCenter

In VCF on VxRail 4.5 I found some alerts related to NSX Edge nodes displayed in NSX-T UI Home page: The VM “Edge VM” with moref id “vm-xxxxx” corresponding to the Edge Transport node “Edge Transport node id” vSphere placement parameters is found in NSX inventory but is not present in vCenter. Please check if the VM […]

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VCF on VxRail 4.x – VXM-VC service account password reset

While applying the async vCenter 7.0U3o patch to workload domain (related to VMSA-2023-0023) in VCF on VxRail 4.x, I faced an issue with VxRail prechecks in SDDC Manager: ‘VxManager HTTP Request failed with invalid status code’ If you open the Physical View of VxRail cluster in vCenter, page keeps loading or it shows ‘Unable to […]

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VCF 5.0 – VCF bring-up with Ansible

This post describes how to perform VCF bringup via Ansible. If you need another VCF related ansible playbooks check rest of my blog posts in here. Backing to VCF bringup, my folder structure is as follow: startVcfBringup.yml playbook /roles/runVcfBringup/defaults/main.yml cloudBuilderRestApiSddcValidate – var for Cloud Builder API used for input specification validation. cloudBuilderRestApiSddcCreate: var for Cloud […]

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VCF 5.0 – how to disable the VMNICS_MIN_SPEED validation during bring-up process

If you want to disable the VMNICS_MIN_SPEED validation during bring-up in you VCF lab (because of error as below) you can just skip the validation process at all. 2023-10-20T16:23:20.023+0000 [bringup,11c0e70c474a8970,5431] DEBUG [c.v.e.s.c.v.util.ResponseUtil,pool-2-thread-19] Build validation response: {“errorCode”:”VMNICS_MIN_SPEED.error”,”arguments”:[“vmnic0″,”reg02-esx02.xxxx.xx”,”1000″],”context”:{“severity”:”ERROR”,”bundleName”:”com.vmware.evo.sddc.common.validation.errors.messages”,”validation.taskId”:”7f000001-8b4d-18c5-818b-4de5a780010f”},”message”:”The speed of vmnic0 on host reg02-esx02.xxxx.xxx is 1000 MB/s but must be at least 10 GB/s according to minimum hardware requirements“} […]

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VCF 5.x – how to modify the input values of failed task in SDDC Manager

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 […]

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vSAN – encryption, checksum and data reduction features in I/O flow

Let’s quick remind ourselves I/O flow and how do checksum calculation and disk encryption work in conjunction with deduplication and compression on vSAN All-Flash cluster while creating/modifying new vmdk. 1. Checksum – functionality to avoid data integrity issues – is calculated before writing data (the block) to the caching tier. vSAN created 5-byte checksum for […]

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