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 […]
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 […]
Zapraszam wszystkich na pierwszy w tym roku spotkanie Poland VMUG, które odbędzie się 26 marca 2020. W związku z obecną sytuacją, spotkanie odbędzie się online. Będę miał okazję opowiedzieć o rozwiązaniu jakim jest VCF on VxRail – jak wygląda integracja VMware VCF software stack’a z platforma HCI DellEMC VxRail. Kliknij tutaj żeby się zarejestrować.
Today is a big day that we’ve been waiting for a long time. New version of VMware vSphere has just been announced by VMware and i will try to describe in a few words what’s new. I won’t cover all of changes but will do my best to bring the concept closer. As a vExpert […]
Check out what’s new in VCF 4.0 https://blogs.vmware.com/cloud-foundation/2020/03/10/whats-new-in-vmware-cloud-foundation-4/
It may happened that VxRail plugin wasn’t loaded into vCenter correctly and it’s in ‘Failed’ status. In my case the error was: Error downloading plug-in. Make sure that the URL is reachable and the registered thumbprint is correct. sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilder.build(SunCertPathBuilder.java:141) In /var/log/mystic/connectors-cluster.log on VxRail Manager some […]
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 […]
This time very short and quick post:) If you see such error message (as below) in vCenter when adding or replacing VMware vSAN 6.7 Witness Appliance, just remember: CHECK YOUR vSAN Witness Appliance VERSION AND BUILD. The witness host must be capable of running the same version of ESXi as vSAN data nodes. 2019-11-08T18:24:31.613Z info […]