vCenter VCSA – How to Add a ‘localos’ User
Access the VCSA shell and log in as a user who has a super administrator role such as ‘root’. Begin by creating a group for the user in this example […]
Virtualization & Storage
Access the VCSA shell and log in as a user who has a super administrator role such as ‘root’. Begin by creating a group for the user in this example […]
Due to repeated failed login attempts via SSH a user account may get locked out. The following provides steps on how to reset the VxRail Manager ‘mystic’ account (SUSE Linux). […]
A very useful benefit of iDRAC Console is that it allows you access to ESXi DCUI thus providing access to the ESXi Shell. The following steps provide detail on how […]
VMware Validated Design (VVD) for SDDC on Dell EMC VxRail Accelerating the path to the VMware Software Defined Data Center (SDDC). Offering VVD with complete vSAN, NSX and vRealize capabilities […]
The following is a list of all the components and their versions as per VMware Validated Design 4.3 This new VVD 4.3 release includes for example vSphere 6.5 U2, NSX 6.4.1, vSAN 6.6.1 U2, vRealize Log Insight 4.6, vRealize Business 7.4, vRealize Operations 6.7 and vRealize Automation 7.4. Note: the list below can be officially found @VMware VVD 4.3 Release […]
Note: this is an example for reference only please use the VxRail ‘External vCenter’ installation procedures provided by Dell EMC. The following will require an understanding of the VVD on […]
I have encountered this error on several systems over the past couple of months while attempting to create an RDP session to a Windows remote machine: I found adding the […]
The following is a list of all the components and their versions as per VMware Validated Design 4.2. Note the list below can be officially found @VMware VVD 4.2 Release Notes
Following steps detail how to mount an NFS share in Windows 2016. Note: The method uses mapping a network drive to Mount the NFS share. Begin by installing the NFS […]
The following steps detail how to enable vSAN to provision the Virtual Machine Swap files as thin. vSAN Sparse Swap Files allow you to conserve space in the vSAN datastore […]
Please also see related post: VCSA 6.0U2 Lookup SSO Domain Name & Site Name The following details how to repoint a vCenter VCSA using an external PSC within the same […]
The following describes how to leverage the $ENV:PATH syntax within powershell to add a value to the Path environment variable, please note changing the environment variables using this method only […]
One quick method to discover your VCSA build number is to run the following command from an ssh console: vpxd -v You can then lookup your vCenter version from the […]
The following post details how to lookup the credentials for accounts that are managed by SDDC Manager. SSH using root credentials to the SDDC Manager VM: In order to utilize […]
There are different scenarios for taking this course of action as detailed in VMware KB2144269 in my case this was a result of losing my lab vCenter which resulted in a […]
The error ‘Unable to authenticate’ may be because the root password has expired. The root account password by default is set to expire after 365 days and if the password is not […]
In order to verify that the services are REGISTERED log into the VAMI (Virtual Appliance Management Infrastructure): https://vra01.domain.local:5480 as root and click on Services:
VMware Validated Designs (VVD) are prescriptive SDDC blueprints with comprehensive deployment and operational practices. Standard SDDC Architecture This VMware Validated Design SDDC ‘Standard Architecture’ is Based on the ‘two-pod’ design where the management workloads & compute and edge workloads are segregated. The management workloads have their own dedicated vSphere cluster while the compute and edge reside on a separate vSphere cluster […]
‘Welcome to the New era of Dell EMC CI’ Some brief highlights and related articles covering the next generation of Dell EMC CI – VxBlock System 1000 4X Storage […]
The following applies to a vCenter Server Appliance that contains a vCenter Server with an embedded Platform Services Controller, a vCenter Server with an external Platform Services Controller, or a Platform Services Controller. Note: Please perform during a maintenance […]