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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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Official VMware Visio Stencils & Icons for 2022
Official VMware Visio Stencils & Icons for 2022 I have been writing documentation for some time but it has always bothered me that there has been no official Visio Stencils, Draw.io or other Icons for the documentation of VMware solutions. […] VMware Social Media Advocacy
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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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How to configure Jumbo frames in windows. 9000MTU
Configure Jumbo Frames for NIC cards in the Windows-based OS servers Change the Maximum Transmission Unit (mtu) setting to 9,000, or the highest value that is supported by the switch Run the following from CMD: You many also have to configure the NIC for Jumbo frames Test with a ping using -f -l 8972
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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…
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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…