VCF9 – HTTP failure on Network Pools in vCenter
After setting up VIDB authentication and adding our AD groups to the administrators role we logged into vcenter with our own admin account and noticed we could not open the…
VCF9 – Setting up Backup
When using VCF9 there are multiple places to configure SFTP backup for some components. For SDDC Manager and NSX it is still somewhat the same as in VCF 5 but…
VCF9 – More DNS issues Cloud Collector
When deploying VCF9 you can also run into an extended wait timeout when in phase of deploying Operations. If you then look into the domainmanager logfile you can see this…
VCF9 VCF Installer DNS issues
When using VCF Installer deployed on one of the hosts used in the to be created Management Domain we ran into an issue with DNS config. OVA was deployed with…
VCF Password remediation on Operations cloud proxies
We recently installed some new Operations cloud proxies through VRSLCM and these got automatically added to the password inventory of VCF in SDDC Manager, for some reason the passwords showed…
VRSLCM upgrade network failure
When upgrading VRSLCM from 8.16 to 8.18 we went with the latest SPS for 8.16 and then the upgrade to 8.18 with the ISO. After that we went on with…
VCF and vCenter Diagnostic Tool and Bundle Cleanup script for SDDC Manager
VMware has released diagnostic tools for vCenter and VCF to check your environments health quickly and easily. Find the official documentation here: Using the VCF Diagnostic Tool for SDDC Manager…
Fix ip’s in use Network Pool in SDDC Manager
When trying to remove a networkpool in SDDC Manager which had no more hosts connected to it VCF still thinks there are a couple of ip’s in use which is…
Reset vCenter root password without restarting!
VMware added a method to reset a locked/forgotten root pass without the need for restarting the appliance and having to go into GRUB to boot into single user mode. login…
FIX HOST ERROR STATE IN SDDC Manager
I was patching esxi hosts and had 1 host that was waiting to go into maintenance for hours because of a stuck vsan resyncing process (something with a stale object).…