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VPN ISSUE – VMware Fusion 12 & Big Sur (Mac OS X)
Intro So almost after a year, I finally updated my macbook pro to Big Sur. I came from Catalina and was postponing this upgrade for some time. For my work, I often do upgrades and updates for customers within Windows & VMware. However, coming to my own personal life, ...read more →
Mental Note to My Self: PLZ check these 3 things first, when troubleshooting VUM (VMware)
Intro So this is going to be a quick blogpost. I often find myself in the situation that I need to update something within VMware. VMware Update Manager (VUM) of course seems to be the best solution for this. However, often I found myself also in the situation that ...read more →
4 Most Common Permission Problems & Mistakes within VMware vSphere and the Content Libary
Intro For one of my customers I looked at a content library (permissions) problem which they have been dealing with for some time. The problem that the customer had was that the vCenter reported that the account(s) had not enough rights to deploy in the resource, whenever a template ...read more →
SDDC-Manager Doesn’t want to start or retry an update (VCF 3.10)
I had a weird problem, where my SDDC-Manager of my VCF environment didn’t want to start any update. I had this in 2 different scenario’s. In one case I had a failed ESXi upgrade according to the SDDC-Manager. Checking it later on, the upgrade was fine, but the SDDC-Manager ...read more →
vCF Upgrade 3.9.1. to 3.10 – vCenter Upgrade errors & issues
Intro During the upgrade of the vCenters of one of my customers, I stumbled several times upon the issue down below. It suggest to check the logs, and to check if the ‘service-control –start applmgmt is running. On both machines the service applmgmt is running. I also checked if ...read more →
How to fix Expired Password issues for vCenters & PSCs (Also for vCF environments)
So a frequently upcomming issue at customers, is the password expiration of the root password. This is set by default for 90 days, and after 90 days, well people figure out that they cannot login. To solve this, simply make a SSH connection towards the vCenter or PSC. To ...read more →
How to get fully (root) access to NSX-v appliances (Manager & Edge) & NSX Intelligence
If you have ever tried to troubleshoot an NSX-v Management Appliance or Edge, you probably noticed that you are quite limited in the execution of your controls. That’s because in NSX-v you are standardly limited with most of the time only esxcli, even when you are logged in as ...read more →
Password Expired for vCenters & PSCs (Solution also for vCF)
So a frequently upcomming issue at customers, is the password expiration of the root password. This is set by default for 90 days, and after 90 days, well people figure out that they cannot login. To solve this. Simply make a SSH connection towards the vCenter or PSC. Type ...read more →
VMware vRealize Orchestrator Log Integration with Log Insight
Intro For a customer I created a work-around after an update of vRO 7.5 to 7.6 removed the read roles for its users that are managed directly through the vRO client. The workaround is simple, forwarding the logs of vRO to vRLI, which then can be used and viewed ...read more →
vRO update from 7.5 to 7.6 or higher removes simple Read-Rigths Consumer Role
90% of the time, VMware has updates that really bring value and give something to look forward to. The upgrade from vRO 7.5 to 7.6 however, does not. vRO has 3 roles, and the consumer role access in the bottom, is the one that gives user Read only rights. ...read more →
Check if the Replication is working between PSCs
For a customer I was replacing the SSO/STS certificates, after the change wanted to make sure if the PSCs were still replicating the information between each other. To simply check this Type the command: ./vdcrepadmin -f showpartnerstatus -h localhost -u administrator You can see who the partner is of ...read more →
vRLI Webgui doesn’t start up: Config Folder Lost & “Keystore was tampered with or Password was incorrect”
Intro One of my customers had problems with their vRLI environment, the most obvious one was that the webgui wasn’t available or even started. The following post is a more general approach of how I troubleshoot vRLI. In this case I had to apply 2 workarounds / solutions to ...read more →
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