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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
In VCF 3.9 we can manage certificates for all Cloud Foundation components, including configuring a certificate authority, generating and downloading CSRs, and installing them. In this post i will show you how to configure Microsoft certificate authority and create and install certificates for the following components: Platform Services Controllers vCenter Server NSX Manager SDDC Managee vRealize […]
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 […]