Category: VMware
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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…
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Join VMs to specific OUs in AD with vRA
Connecting a deployed Windows VM to an Active Directory domain is pretty easy, just apply an appropriately-configured customization spec and vCenter will take care of it for you. Of course, you’ll likely then need to move the newly-created computer object to the correct Organizational Unit so that it gets the correct Group Policy. Fortunately, vRA…
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NSX-T Manager account has been locked
Had a problem today trying to access via the UI to an NSX-T Manager with admin user, received the following error message: Your login attempt was not successful.The username/password combination is incorrect or the account specified has been locked. SHH also gave me errors (If you can’t SSH, don’t forget to test a console session to the…
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VRA8 Error Upfront price is unavailable, please run vROPS price engine first!
https://blogs.vmware.com/management/2020/04/vm-pricing-with-vrealize-automation-8-1-and-vrealize-operations-8-1.html First it’s worth checking you have the correct Currency selected in Operations Manager (Error :Currency information is not available) Login to vRealize Operations Manager go to Administration tab Expand Management section choose global settings on the very last line you can select the currency Next you should Sync up the prices in cloud assembly…
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vRealize Automation 8 expressions and functions advanced blueprint techniques
In one input you can only choose either the image or imageRef or choose the customization spec, not both at once 🙁 Then I found out about expressions and functions that can be used from within the vRA8 blueprints. First create a blueprint To show the workings of a function in blueprints we just need…
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Error deploying VCF on VxRail 4.2 workload domain ‘invalid parameter’
Task adding VxRail cluster to domain, error Invalid parameter: ovftool pre-verification failed for deployment of vm: The fix for this issue came from the release notes of the product: Workaround: In the vSphere client create a folder under the management domain data center and move the vSAN witness host VM into that folder. The Solve…
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vRealize Orchestrator control center
Information on how to install the powerscale plugin in vRealize, first step is to navigate to the control center. This appears to have changed in newer versions of VRA: https://VIP Address of VRA/vco-controlcenter/config/login.html
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Create NSX-T Segments using powerCLI Script
Before running the script you’ll need the following: Script file can be accessed here along with an example txt file: https://github.com/PhilCDW/NSXTCreateSegments/blob/c1203d93948a3623dfb1b9732a20022ea04fd860/CreateNSXTSegments.ps1 The Script will ask the following: Input your NSX-T FQDN:Credentials for NST-TInput your Transport Zone ID. Another script I’ve uploaded is delete segments using a CSV file, can be useful if you make any…
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HCX Migration Example
First Job is to create a network profile A Network Profile is a component of a complete Compute Profile. You will have to create a Network Profile for each network you intend to use with the HCX services. The HCX Manager selects these network profiles when creating a Compute Profile and assignes one or more…
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ESXi vmkping command
This is a post about using the VMKping command on ESXi, something that each time i’m using it i have to double check i have the command correct. (-s & -d are key for me) Some examples (1) Basic ping command: vmkping x.x.x.x (2) Ping command out of a certain vmk interface: vmkping -I vmk1…