Virtualization & Storage
Prior to VCF On VxRail 5.1 both Management VMs (vCenter server, VxRail Manager,SDDC Manager, NSX components, etc) Network and the ESXi VMkernel Network distributed virtual port groups (DvPG) had a requirement to […]
VCF 5.0 SDDC Manager introduces Context-aware prechecks. As part of this new feature VCF 5.0 introduces a new precheck engine capable of granular precheck selections. SDDC Manager prechecks can be run […]
VMware Cloud Foundation 5.0 on Dell VxRail 8.0.100 is now GA (Generally Available), this is the first VCF release to support vSphere 8.0. The following is a list of all […]
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 […]
IMPORTANT FEATURE UPDATE: JULY 2022 As of VCF 4.4 Multi-Instance Management is deprecated. VMware Cloud Foundation 3.9 on Dell EMC VxRail 4.7.300 Multi-Instance Management code named ‘Pantheon’ is a new […]
Example VCF 3.8.1 -> 3.9 upgrade In order to check the availability of Update/Patches from within the SDDC manager console navigate to Inventory->WLD->Update/Patches. In this example we see that VCF 3.9.0.0 update […]
The following is a known VCF 3.9 error that may appear on the SDDC Manager GUI: “Got bad CSRF token; invalid CSRF token” As per the VCF 3.9 Release Notes: […]
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 […]
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