Category: VMware
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VRA vRealize Automation Orchestrator export\import custom workflows
Quick post on how to export\import custom workflows in vRealize Automation Orchestrator Tree view is very helpful, this listed out my custom workflows that were in a folder: Move to packages and clicked new package: Give the new package a name and switch over to the content tab: Find the Custom workflows you wanted to…
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VRA vRealize Automation Orchestrator export\import custom workflows
Quick post on how to export\import custom workflows in vRealize Automation Orchestrator Tree view is very helpful, this listed out my custom workflows that were in a folder: Move to packages and clicked new package: Give the new package a name and switch over to the content tab: Find the Custom workflows you wanted to…
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vCenter 7 /storage/core and /storage/log full 100%
Had an issue where the following appear to occur in vCenter: vCenter Server /storage/core filling up with core.in:imfile.XXXX when configuring vCenter syslog server (81327) (vmware.com) This is a collection of the commands i’d used to fix this problem this problem:
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VMC on AWS SDDC Deployment
This is a collection of some of my notes for the deployment of VMware cloud on AWS: Step one is to configure your AWS account, the easy bit right 😉 Then you will need to create a new VPC, search for VPC in the AWS console. Next Step is to create the Subnet you’ll be…
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NSX-T Install load balancing certificate
How to install a certificate on NSX-T to be used for Load balancing. If your given a PKCS12 certificate which contains both the certificate and private key. First you will need to export the certificate without private key and then separately export the private key. To achieve this, i’d used OpenSSL: https://www.openssl.org/ Step 1: Export…
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Reset the vCenter Server Appliance root password
This post will be handy for those who can’t rely on their memory. AKA Me! Resetting appliance root password is as simple. Note that you need to make a snapshot or backup of your VM. Important, do not ignore this step! as i do sometimes. If something goes wrong, you’ll always have a copy of…
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Change the default Multipathing selection ESXi, From Most Recently used to Round Robin
How to change the default path selection policy from the default of Most Recently used to Round Robin: SSH to each host in the cluster and run the following command: From this command get the Vendor and Model of the storage highlighted below: The run a command like my example below, replacing the vendor -V…
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VxRail Manager Password Validity failed, or error resetting Mystic/root password from SDDC manager
Had the following two errors in my VCF on VxRail environment VxRail Manager password Validity, exception occurred while performing password validation task for VxRail manager. Password validation execution has failed. Didn’t realize at first but also changing the Root or Mystic password from SDDC manager didn’t work, that failed with the following: Remediation Message: Error…
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Failed Pre-check in SDDC manager, error “Disk space on SDDC manager VM is less than required”
Was getting this error when running the upgrade pre-check in SDDC manager: Disk space on SDDC manager VM is less than required Minimal disk space is available in SDDC Manager, available disk space is… To fix this problem I’d had to contact VMware support, who ran the following commands to fix the issue. Basically they…
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NSX-T password expired SDDC Manager rotation fails
With VMware Cloud Foundation password management of SDDC components is handed off to the SDDC manager. The SDDC manager can rotate the passwords for VMware components such as ESXi, Virtual Centre and NSX-T. A very useful feature and a great way. of keeping admin and root accounts secure in the infrastructure. So what happens when…