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 […]
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 […]
One of the many steps performed when you try to unstretch vSAN cluster is disabling stretch cluster mode in all ESXi hosts. It’s done automatically so you don’t need to worry about that but in my case I needed to do that manually. When you run into an below error during ova deployment, definitely it’s […]
In Part#1 of this blog series we upgraded VxRail cluster from v 4.7.300 to v7.0 and now we will deploy VCF 4.0. I assume that VMware Cloud Builder appliance is already deployed in our VxRail cluster. Just download OVF from here and deploy it. Ensure that you can ping the ESXi hosts from Cloud Builder vm […]
Before we start with VCF 4.0 on VxRail 7.0 installation, if not yet done, we need to upgrade our VxRail cluster to version 7.0.x. In this blog post we will upgrade from version 4.7.300. But before start, please read carefully ‘VxRail Software Upgrade Procedures’ available in SolVe Online, allowing users to generate specific step-by-step procedures […]
The second generation of VMware Cloud on Dell EMC unveiled. VMware launched the VMware Cloud on Dell EMC product offering at Dell Tech World 2019 in April and this is the second generation of that product. Last week as a vExpert i’ve had a chance ( again:-) ) to participate in exclusive Bloggers Early Access […]
Few posts ago i described how to automate certificates management for all VCF components using Ansible. In VCF versions prior to VCF 3.8, SDDC Manager allows the user to manage certificates of the VMware Cloud Foundation components except VxRail Manager. This post is just a quick update of vars for my ansible role. Just add […]