VMware Cloud Foundation (vCF)

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...

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...
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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...
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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...
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Check & Renew the expiration of the Machine Certificate of the PSCs & vCenter (vCenter 6.5/6.7)

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...