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 […]
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 […]
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 […]