Virtualization & Storage
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 […]
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 […]
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
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 following script allows the user to retrieve a listing of Network (ENIC) & Storage (FNIC) firmware drivers installed on Cisco UCS blades at a per vSphere cluster level. You may download the ‘Cisco_FNIC_ENIC.ps1‘ script here: […]
Experiencing issues connecting to an ESXi host from vCenter Server? A good place to start your troubleshooting is by restarting the ESXi management agents. The following method uses the CLI […]
The following script allows the user to Enable/Disable SSH at a per vSphere cluster level. You may download the ‘SSH.ps1‘ script here: SSH.ps1 (Remove the .doc extension). The script will begin by prompting you to […]
Based on the vSphere v6.0 platform the Enterprise Hybrid Cloud 3.5 solution has a host of new features, code upgrades and converged platforms support which result in an impressive release of […]
You may encounter a scenario where a vCenter server is not part of a solution and SVMotion is not an option to migrate a VM from one VMFS datastore to […]
The following script allows the user to modify an MS Windows Guest VM IP and DNS configuration. You may download the ‘IP&DNS_Modification.ps1‘ script HERE (Remove the .doc extension). Begin by […]
The VMware vSphere Host storage path limit as of vSphere 5.5 is 1024 and the maximum LUNs per host is 256. Maximum LUNS PER ESXi HOST = 256 Maximum FC […]
See also: VMware PowerCLI – Adding VMFS Datastore’s After creating the required LUN’s on your storage array and mapped the LUN’s to your ESXi hosts then you may use PowerCLI […]
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