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 in shell to access shell with …read more →
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 by users for troubleshooting. Here we …read more →
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. Unfortunately, after the upgrade this role …read more →
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 the PSC, and how much changes …read more →
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 make it work again. In this …read more →
Intro At a customer we got the notification in the vCenter that the certificate was almost expiring. This was about the SSO/STS certificate. Later we found out that also the machine certificates were expiring on each PSC and vCenter that were deployed 2 years earlier. This post will focus on the renewal of the Machine …read more →
A colleague of my, had some troubles making an API call to the NSX-T Managers in a particular site. Looking closer into vRA we saw the following message: So we decided to log into one of the NSX-T managers, and we directly saw the following: Since the password was expired, we were asked to change …read more →
When trying to connect to a NSX-T manager node with SSH, it is possible that you get this message. That is because during the deployment of NSX-T, the SDDC-Manager doesn’t turn on SSH for the VMs. This can simply be changed by login in to the webconsole of the NSX-T manager, and turning on SSH …read more →
At a customer we got the notification in the vCenter that the certificate was almost expiring. However, the vCenter with version 6.7 was part of a vCF Deployment. Almost all the certificates are being managed by vCF, so when we checked the status, it didn’t seem that anything was expiring soon. However, the SSO STS …read more →
SSL Certificate almost Expired At a customer we got the notification in the vCenter that the certificate was almost expiring. When I checked the HTML client, I couldn’t find the SSL certificate that the warning was talking about. Looking deeper, I noticed that the SSO STS Certificate, which are standard issued by VMware and being …read more →
