Virtualization & Storage
vRealize Automation 7.1 – Create a Service & Entitlement (Part 5) 1. Create a ‘vSphere’ Machine Blueprint VMware Machine Blueprint Definition: A blueprint that contains a machine component specifies the workflow used […]
vRealize Automation 7.1 – Create Machine Prefix, Business Group & Add Reservation (Part 4) 1. Create a Service VMware Services Definition: Services are used to organize catalog items into related offerings to […]
vRealize Automation 7.1 – Create Endpoints & Fabric Groups (Part 3) Before creating the Business Group we firstly need to create a Machine Prefix which can be used by the Business […]
Reference KB: Directory sync is running endlessly in vRealize Automation 7.x (2146237) While the above Kb refers to a known issue affecting VMware vRealize Automation 7.0.x, I also encountered this issue […]
While in the process of creating a vRA blueprint, none of my vSphere templates were displaying as an option for selection. This led me to verify some of my previous […]
vRealize Automation 7.1 – Create Tenant & Configure Authentication (Part 2) Following on from the tenant & authentication post above, the following steps detail the creation of an Endpoint & Fabric Group […]
vRealize Automation 7.1 – Installation (Part 1) Following on from the Install post above, the following steps detail the creation of a Tenant in vRA 7.1. Begin by navigating to https://vRA-FQDN […]
The following provides a step-by-step walkthrough for deploying an external PSC Appliance into a new site, while joining an existing SSO Domain, followed by the installation of VCSA 6.0. This scenario […]
This ‘Error 12000’ maybe encountered while exporting a VMAX 3/AFA LUN from ViPR Controller as a shared datastore to a specific vSphere ESXi Cluster (ViPR shared export mask). The reason for the failure is because ViPR either attempts to add the new shared LUN to independent exclusive ESXi Masking Views or to a manually created shared cluster masking view: Error […]
Looks like there maybe a bug in the vRA 7.1 wizard deployment. I’m running vRA version 7.1 build 4270058 and Windows 2012 R2 build 9600. Even though we configured the […]
VMAX All Flash compression feature – released with HYPERMAX OS 5977.945.890 Some key points: 1. This new feature compresses data before it is written to flash drives. 2. Compression is […]
This post will provide a step-by-step walk through installation of vRA 7.1, utilising the vRA wizard based install and configuration utility. This example focuses on the ‘Enterprise Install’ for a […]
Begin by SSH to your platform services controller (PSC). Run the following command to discover your SSO Domain Name: /usr/lib/vmware-vmafd/bin/vmafd-cli get-domain-name –server-name localhost
This post provides a high level overview of the Enterprise Hybrid Cloud 4.x ‘Hybrid Management Model’, which is the default model used for VxBlock & VxRack EHC solutions. The following DellEMC acronyms […]
Disassociate Host From vCenter Server There maybe many reasons to perform such an action, but mine was due to not removing ESXi 6.0 hosts from a Lab vCenter before destroying […]
We encountered the following “Conflicting VIBs” blocker, while upgrading ESXi 5.5 hosts to 6.0: The Mellanox driver is required for infiniBand, as we do not have a requirement for infiniBand […]
“The vCenter Server Appliance is a preconfigured Linux virtual machine, which is optimized for running vCenter Server and the associated services on Linux.” Detailed VMware overview of VCSA found here. The following tables […]
During the process of deploying an OVF (Log Insight in this example) using the vSphere Web Client running on a local windows vCenter instance, I encountered the following error: ‘A […]
The default built-in administrative accounts may not be granular enough to meet your business needs, if this is the case then adding an authentication provider such as Active Directory which […]
This post was a result of requiring access to the VCSA BASH Shell console in order to perform such functions as certificate-manager (/usr/lib/vmware-vmca/bin/certificate-manager). The default Shell access when you initially login to […]
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