Tag: VCF
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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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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 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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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…
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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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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…