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VCF 9 – NSX Edge Cluster Deployment and VPC Configuration
The NSX Edge Cluster deployment procedure has changed significantly in VCF 9. When we performed this in previous versions, it was via the SDDC Manager. SDDC Manager is being deprecated, so the Edge deployment has moved into the vCenter GUI. This deployment method only supports specific deployment scenarios, so if you have more advanced requirements…
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Random 443 traffic being dropped in VCF 9 and NSX
Traffic from VM’s to certain destinations is not working Quick post about an issue i had yesterday with random traffic being blocked when a VM was being migrated over to VCF and critically to NSX. At first it was just a random URL that wouldn’t work in NSX, so i moved the VM back and…
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Reset Admin@local password for Fleet Management in VCF 9. Fleet Management is Not Ready
VCF Ops gui, clicking Fleet Management I was getting the error: VCF Operations Fleet Management is Not Ready I had a problem where the admin@local password became disconnected in VCF Operations for Fleet management. I wanted to test the password i had for admin@local however i couldn’t because the GUI was disabled in VCF for…
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Edit VCF network pools
Warning this post is just my notes, and involves editing the SDDC database a big no no. take a snapshot of SDDC before Connect to the DB Select * from vcf_network; This is me removing free ip’s and changing the range in a pool:
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VCF 9 Identity Broker Deployment
We now have a new authentication solution for VCF: the Identity Broker. It is designed to serve as the central authentication point for all VCF components and introduces enhanced capabilities, including integration with modern identity providers. We have 2 deployment modes available:1: Integrated with Management Domain vCenter.This is recommended for smaller environments. The Identity broker…
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VCF 9 errors
Build validation response:{“errorCode”:”EXISTING_SDDC_HOSTNAME_VALIDATION ERROR.error”,”arguments”: [“FQDN”, “127.0.0.1″],”context”: {“severity”:”ERROR”,”bundleName”:”com. vmware. evo. sddc.common.validation.errors.messages”,”validation.taskId”:”7f000001-987e-1224-8198-7eed263700c8″},”message”:”Incorrect SDDCManager hostname \u0027{0}\u0027 providedwhilst using the option to reuse VCFInstaller, expected hostname\u0027{1}\u0027″} Kept getting the error in the build about Incorrect SDDC Manager hostname. Didn’t notice at first but the SDDC manager host name was set to SDDC-manager, weirdly in the OVF deployment i’d told…
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Adding Certificate to VMware vCenter 8.0U3
Step 1 Backup vCenter Step 2 Snapshot vCenter The certificate authority i was using was Windows Server 2022 I’d used this article to create a template, Remoted onto the certificate server: https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article?articleNumber=315271 Creating a new template for vSphere to use for VMCA as a Subordinate CA Note: If you have an encryption level higher than…
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Checking SSL Certificate Validity Period using vRealize Operations Application Monitoring Agents
A Simple Dashboard! example of 3: In the new versions of Aria Operations Application Monitoring capabilities have been introduced including a new Telegraf-based agent. In this post I will describe how to use the new agent to implement an easy solution to continuously check the validity of SSL/TLS certificates. The remaining days until expiration will be displayed as…
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Deploying vSAN with a local vCenter Server Appliance
Deploying vSAN in existing environments is typically straightforward. New hosts are sized based on anticipated workloads, ideally using vSAN Ready Nodes, procured, racked, configured, and added to an existing vCenter workload domain before enabling and configuring vSAN. But what about new greenfield environments? In these scenarios, there’s no vCenter, no shared storage, just freshly installed…