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vCenter Appliance vCenter restore failed
When you’ve been backing up your vCenter Server Appliance via the built in backup feature in the admin UI, then come to initiate a restore to new vCenter server. Make sure it’s the correct version, selected the same size (medium) and then ended up with a bunch of failures. The errors weren’t very helpful to…
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Performing a Reconfigure for vSphere HA operation on a primary
When you perform a Reconfigure for vSphere HA operation on the primary node in an HA cluster, an unexpected virtual machine failover may occur for the virtual machines running on that primary node. This is caused by a too short default monitor period for the primary host to become secondary. In the Details tab you…
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Process to remove NSX-T from vCenter
Stop any monitoring of NSX-T before the removal process starts, check no VM’s are connect to NSX-T segments. **The guide I’d written assume no edge nodes are deployed, however you’ll have to remove the T0 and T1 plus any edge nodes after the segments are removed** Step 1 Remove all the segments, checking that they’re…
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Data health vSAN Object Health check in the vSAN Health Service and provides details on why it might report an error.
Reminder Best Practice Monitor resync status to avoid potential data loss or service disruptions. Wait until resyncing objects are fully synchronized before placing the host into maintenance mode. Data move: vSAN is building data on the ESXi hosts and storage in the cluster either because you requested some form of maintenance mode or evacuation, or…
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VxRail 7.0 Useful Log File Information
The following log files can be accessed either via console or SSH to VxRail Manager. Useful VxRail Manager 7.0.010+ Log Files Monitor VxRail bring-up logs: dayone.log , short.term.log & firstboot.log: cd /var/log/microservice_log/ (This location is important when looking for logs) # cat dayone.log# tail -f dayone.log# tail -f dayone.log | grep ERROR# tail -n 100 dayone.log# more dayone.log…
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Useful SDDC Manager Log Locations
SDDC Manager, Troubleshooting, VCF, VMware Cloud Foundation SDDC Manager has different logs for different functions. This is to help you identify what log to look at depending on what you are trying to do in SDDC Manager. If you are troubleshooting a bringup and still using cloudbuilder, the main log will be /var/log/vmware/vcf/bringup/bringup.log or bringup-debug.log for more detail. For…
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Error The machine SSL certificate in the VMware Endpoint Certificate Store (VECS) does not correspond with the service registration in the VMware Directory Service (vmdir) KB 2121701
A vCenter Single Sign-On endpoint certificate validation error has occurred. Resolution Ensure that the endpoint service registrations in vmdir match their corresponding machine SSL certificates in VECS. For more information, see Knowledge Base article KB 2121701. I could not find the file to fix the issue, however eventually did find the file however not on…
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Error when adding new hosts to a stretched cluster, could also get this same error when adding hosts to VCF!
The error “Failed to get thumbprints Response : {‘id’: ‘6d76ca8a-0f6a-4458-ab97-0771a82e873e’, ‘errorResponse’: {‘errorCode’: ‘ENABLE_SSH_PRE_CONDITION_NOT_MET’, ‘arguments’: None, ‘context’: None, ‘message’: ‘Dependency of enabling SSH could not be performed on one or many hosts in the request payload.’, ‘remediationMessage’: None, ’cause’: None, ‘nestedErrors’: None, ‘referenceToken’: None}, ‘status’: ‘FAILED’, ‘startTime’: 1736453217280, ‘lastModifiedTime’: 1736453217316, ‘sshFingerprints’: [], ‘sslFingerprints’: []}” I’d experienced…
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VCF Error “Edge VM Not Present in Both NSX Inventory and vCenter” Critical
VMware NSX Issue Caused by Expired vCenter Certificate A recent issue encountered with VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) NSX was traced back to an expired certificate in vCenter. The certificate expiration led to a disruption in communication between vCenter and NSX, triggering the following error: “Edge VM Not Present in Both NSX Inventory and vCenter.” This…
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Remove a node from a VCF on VxRail cluster
Didn’t realize as I’d simply not used it, but VCF now has a single remove host workflow for VCF on VxRail, which is fully automated from SDDC Manager. The manual step of removing the host using VxRail Manager Plugin for VMware vCenter is no longer required and now executed via an API call to VxRail…