VCF 3.X – vRSLCM Deployment Not Available
In this scenario I upgraded from 3.10 to 3.11 in advance of deploying vRSLCM; this required me to reset feature.vcf.avn.freenfield to status of ‘true’:
VCF 4.4 On VxRAIL 7.0.320 Release
VMware Cloud Foundation 4.4 on Dell VxRail 7.0.320 is now available. The following is a list of all the components and their versions as per VMware Cloud Foundation 4.4. Security Update: VCF 4.4 On VxRail 7.0.320 includes the critical Apache Log4j Remote Code Execution Vulnerability fixes. Some other notable highlights of this VCF 4.4 release include: vRealize LCM initiated from vRSLCM […]
VCF On VxRail 3.X – Bring-up Failed to apply default vSAN policy
This is a known issue and documented in the release notes: ‘If bring-up fails when deploying the second Platform Services Controller (psc-2), retrying bring-up will fail with the error Failed to apply default vSAN policy. The cause is that the original deployment of psc-2 was not removed from the vCenter Server inventory.’ Release notes: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Cloud-Foundation/3.10/rn/vmware-cloud-foundation-on-dell-emc-vxrail-18-release-notes.html The workaround as per detailed in […]
VCF 3.X – Bring-Up License Expired
Issue: NSX Datacenter license used in parameter xls was expired, resulting in a failure during bring-up. Rather than rolling back the bring-up I edited the NSX lic entry in postgres […]
VCF On VxRail 4.3 – Flexible AVN Day-N Operations
Prior to VCF 4.3 Application Virtual Networks(AVN)s including the NSX Edge Cluster and NSX network segments were deployed and configured during bring-up by Cloud Builder. Example of this process can […]
VCF On VXRAIL 4.2 – Walkthrough (Part3: NSX-T EDGE AUTOMATION)
This is the third post in a series of posts covering VCF On VxRail 4.2. The previous posts detailed an example walkthrough covering the process of: Deploying a VxRail Management Workload Domain cluster Deploying VMware CloudBuilder for VxRail Bring-Up of VCF 4.2 Deploying a VI WLD Part 1 & Part 2 Versions used in this example are VCF 4.2 & VxRail 7.0.131. Release Notes: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Cloud-Foundation/4.2/rn/vmware-cloud-foundation-on-dell-emc-vxrail-22-release-notes.html […]
VCF On VxRAIL 4.2 – Walkthrough (Part2: VI Workload Domain)
Note: this is an example for reference only please use the VxRail installation procedures & services provided by Dell. This is the second in a series of posts covering VCF On […]
VCF On VxRAIL 4.2 – Walkthrough (Part1: Bring-Up)
Note: this is an example for reference only please use the VxRail installation procedures & services provided by Dell. This is the first in a series of posts covering VCF […]
VCF 4.2 On VxRAIL – ‘Validate Thumbprints’
In order to prevent the opportunity of a Man In The Middle (MiTM) attack VMware have introduced a security feature which validates the SSH RSA fingerprint and SSL thumbprint of […]
VCF 4.x – ‘Failed To Assign Role Admin TO ESXi User’
I hit the following issue recently while creating a VCF 4.1 ‘NSX-T VI Workload Domain‘ for a VCF on VxRail solution: Referring to the VMware VCF 4.0.1 Release Notes (extract): VI workload domain creation or expansion operations fail If there is a mismatch between the letter case (upper or lower) of an ESXi host’s FQDN and the FQDN used when […]
VCF 4.1 ON VXRAIL – REDUCE A CLUSTER (REMOVE NODE)
In a previous post I provided an example walk-through of the process for adding a new host to an existing VCF 4.1 on VxRail ‘VI Workload Domain (WLD)’: https://davidring.ie/2020/12/16/vcf-4-1-on-vxrail-expand-a-cluster-add-node/ In this post I will provide an example walk-through of the process for removing a host from a VCF 4.1 on VxRail ‘VI Workload Domain (WLD)’. There are various reasons you may wish to perform this task […]
VCF 4.1 ON VXRAIL – EXPAND A CLUSTER (ADD NODE)
In this post I will provide an example walk-through of the process for adding a new VxRail node to an existing VCF on VxRail ‘VI Workload Domain (WLD)’. At a high level there are […]
VCF 4.1 ON VXRAIL – “HOSTKEY HAS BEEN CHANGED”
Upgrading VxRail Manager to 7.0.100 fails with message: VxRail component upgrade failed with error HostKey has been changed This is a known issue and expected behavior as part of the […]
VCF ON VXRAIL 4.1 – NSX-T EDGE AUTOMATION
Since the release of VCF 4.0 NSX-T is now used exclusively across both the Mgmt and VI Workload Domains (WLDs). As per previous releases the Management WLD cluster requires a […]
VCF ON VXRAIL – NSX-T PASSWORD MANAGEMENT (Expired p/w)
By default NSX-T user passwords (NSX-T Manager: root & admin | NSX-T Edge: root, admin & audit) expire after 90 days. In a VCF On VxRail environment it is good […]
VCF ON VXRAIL – NSX-T MANAGER ENABLE SSH
By default SSH is disabled on the NSX-T managers. To enable SSH open the NSX-T Manager VM console from the vSphere client: Log in to the CLI as admin and […]
VCF ON VXRAIL – DFW EXCLUSION LISTS
As per VVD guidance the following layer2 management VMs are excluded from any distributed firewall rules in a VCF On VxRail solution: VxRail Manager WLD VCSA Appliances NSX Managers SDDC […]
VCF ON VXRAIL 4.1 – NEW ACCOUNT ‘ADMIN@LOCAL’
VCF 4.1 introduced a new account ‘admin@local’ which is configured as part of a greenfield installation of VCF. If you have upgraded to VCF 4.1 then you will encounter the […]
VCF 4.0 On VxRail – “Hostkey Has Been Changed”
Upgrading VxRail Manager to 7.0.010 fails with message: VxRail component upgrade failed with error HostKey has been changed This is a known issue and expected behavior as part of the […]
VCF ON VXRAIL 4.0 – DEPLOYING VREALIZE SUITE (PART1 – VRSLCM)
VCF Version: 4.0.1.1 Note: ensure ‘My VMware’ creds are entered successfully in the SDDC Manager repository settings and the list of available products are being displayed in the SDDC Manager […]
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