VxRail ‘Dynamic Nodes’– Fibre Channel Storage
The definition of a VxRail Dynamic node: ‘VxRail systems that are compute-only nodes used to form a vSphere cluster.’ This essentially means that a VxRail Dynamic node cluster relies on having external...
View ArticleVCF 3.X – Bring-Up License Expired
Issue: NSX Datacenter license used in parameter xls was expired, resulting in a failure during bring-up. Rather than rolling back the bring-up I edited the NSX lic entry in postgres […]
View ArticleVCF On VxRail 3.X – Bring-up Failed to apply default vSAN policy
This is a known issue and documented in the release notes: ‘If bring-up fails when deploying the second Platform Services Controller (psc-2), retrying bring-up will fail with the error Failed to apply...
View ArticleVCF 4.4 On VxRAIL 7.0.320 Release
VMware Cloud Foundation 4.4 on Dell VxRail 7.0.320 is now available. The following is a list of all the components and their versions as per VMware Cloud Foundation 4.4. Security Update: VCF 4.4 On...
View ArticleVCF 3.X – vRSLCM Deployment Not Available
In this scenario I upgraded from 3.10 to 3.11 in advance of deploying vRSLCM; this required me to reset feature.vcf.avn.freenfield to status of ‘true’:
View ArticleVCF 3.x – Remove Bundles From SDDC Manager
The following provides a method of cleaning out unwanted bundles from SDDC Manager. Firstly browse to the Bundle section on SDDC UI, select the bundle you wish to remove and click view details: From...
View ArticleVCF On VxRail 4.4 – Walkthrough (Part1: Bring-Up)
This is the first in a series of posts covering VCF On VxRail 4.4. The following detailed post provides an example walkthrough covering the process of: Deploying a VxRail Management Workload Domain...
View ArticleVCF On VxRail 4.4 – Walkthrough (Part2: NSX-T Edge & AVN)
Part1: https://davidring.ie/2022/03/04/vcf-on-vxrail-4-4-walkthrough-part1-bring-up/ This is the second in a series of posts covering VCF On VxRail 4.4. The following detailed post provides an example...
View ArticleVCF On VxRail 4.4 – Walkthrough (Part3: VI Workload Domain)
PART1 PART2 This is the third in a series of posts covering VCF On VxRail 4.4. The following detailed post provides an example walkthrough covering the process of deploying a VI Workload Domain using...
View ArticleVCF On VxRail 4.4 – Walkthrough (Part4: NSX-T Edge Automation)
PART1 PART2 PART3 This is the fourth in a series of posts covering VCF On VxRail 4.4. The following detailed post provides an example walkthrough covering the process of deploying a NSX-T Edge nodes...
View ArticleVCF On VxRail 4.4 – Walkthrough (Part5: Deploy vRSLCM)
PART1 PART2 PART3 PART4 The VMware vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager automates the LCM of the vRealize Suite. It must be deployed before any vRealize Log Insight, vRealize Operations, or vRealize...
View ArticleVxRail – TPM 2.0 Device Detected
If you receive the following alert in vCenter then some BIOS Security settings may need to be configured which I will detail below: Detailed information in relation to securing ESXi […]
View ArticleVxRail – Enable LLDP On vDS
Link Layer Data Protocol (LLDP) can be enabled from the vSphere Distributed Switch in vCenter as follows: Log in to vCenter and select the Networking tab and right-click the vDS. Navigate to Settings...
View ArticleVCF 4.4.1 On VxRAIL 7.0.371 Release
VMware Cloud Foundation 4.4.1 on Dell VxRail 7.0.371 is now available. The following is a list of all the components and their versions as per VMware Cloud Foundation 4.4.1. Security Update: VCF 4.4.1...
View ArticleVCF On VxRAIL – Pre-Check Error ‘LCM Bundle Repo Disk Space’
Over time there may be a build-up of downloaded bundles which can consume a lot of space on the SDDC Manager bundle repo. In this case during an upgrade Pre-Check […]
View ArticleVMware VCF SDDC Manager: Enable ‘bash shell history’
As part of security hardening VMware removed bash shell history in SDDC Manager from VCF 4.3 onwards. You can simply enable history for an open session by issuing the following […]
View ArticleVCF 4.x SDDC MGR UI –‘Throwing error from session middleware’
Encountered the following error whilst performing an upgrade from VCF 4.4 TO 4.4.1.1: The following KB provided the fix in this case: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/77551 Issue resolved:
View ArticleVxRAIL 7.0 – Upgrade Bundles Explained
When performing a local offline upgrade of VxRAIL you will need to download the required upgrade composite bundle(s) from dell.com/support/ to complete your upgrade as guided by the associated VxRail...
View ArticleVxRail 7.0.400 Release
VxRail 7.0.400 GA September 2022 This is a feature packed release! Future posts will highlight some of these features but for now here is a snippet. VxRail 7.0.400 BOM 7.0.400 release BOM includes the...
View ArticleVCF 4.5 On VxRAIL 7.0.400 Release
VMware Cloud Foundation 4.5 on Dell VxRail 7.0.400 is now GA (Generally Available). The following is a list of all the components and their versions as per VMware Cloud Foundation 4.5. Note: the BOM...
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