VxRail Mgmt Pack for vROPS – Example Alert
For a detailed overview of the VxRail Management Pack for vROps please refer to the excellent post by Steve Hegarty: VxRail Management Pack for vROps This post provides an example use case […]
VxRail Manager 4.5 – View Version Number
Quick ‘How to’ on looking up the current running version of VxRail Manager. Login to VxRail Manager UI: Navigate to ‘Config’, click on the ‘General’ tab: From CLI, ssh […]
VxRail Manager – Manual Backup
Note: Please refer to the DELL EMC Solve procedures before performing this task, this is for example purposes only, running VxRail code 4.5.210. This is an example of a manual […]
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 […]
VxRail Manager – Using ‘pam_tally2’ to reset ‘Mystic’ user account due to failed logins
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). […]
VxRail iDRAC – ESXi Shell Access via DCUI
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 […]
VVD on VxRail – Sizing
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 […]
VMware VVD 4.3 – BOM
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 […]
VVD on VxRail – Shared Edge & Compute Domain (External vCenter Installation)
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 […]
Windows RDP – CredSSP encryption oracle remediation
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 […]
VMware VVD 4.2 – BOM
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
Windows 2016 – Mount An NFS Share
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 […]
VMware vSAN – Enable Provision of VM SWAP Files as Thin
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 […]
vCenter VCSA 6.5 – Repoint to New PSC
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 […]
Windows Powershell – Setting Environment Variable
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 […]
VMware VCSA – How to Determine Build Number
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 […]
VCF SDDC Manager – Account Credentials
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 […]
vRA 7.x – Using Cloud Client to remove virtual machines
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 […]
vRA VAMI – ‘root’ Password Expires
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 […]
vRealize Automation – Shutdown / Startup Sequence
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:
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