vCenter VCSA – How to Add a ‘localos’ User
Access the VCSA shell and log in as a user who has a super administrator role such as ‘root’. Begin by creating a group for the user in this example the group and user are both named ‘management’. Use...
View ArticleVxRail Manager – Manual Backup
Note: Please refer to the DELL EMC Solve procedures before performing this task, this is for example purposes only, running VxRail code 4.5.210. This is an example of a manual file-based backup of your...
View ArticleVxRail Manager – View Version Number
Quick ‘How to’ on looking up the current running version of VxRail Manager. Login to VxRail Manager: Navigate to ‘Config’, click on the ‘General’ tab:
View ArticleVxRail Mgmt Pack for vROPS – Example Alert
For a detailed overview of the VxRail Management Pack for vROps please refer to the excellent post by Steve Hegarty: VxRail Management Pack for vROps This post provides an example use case of working...
View ArticleVxRail – How to Check ‘PTAgent’ Status
VxRail manager utilizes the PTAgent running on the ESXi hosts as part of a VxRail cluster in order to pull hardware related information from the host. If you are experiencing host visibility issues in...
View ArticleVxRail – Basic vSAN UI Overview
The following post provides a basic UI overview of how the VxRail Appliance disk groups are configured and viewed from both the VxRail Manager and the vSphere Client. The VxRail Appliance vSAN disk...
View ArticleVMware vRSLCM 2.0 – Import Brownfield Environment
vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager (vRSLCM) v2.0 is a centralized way to manage the vRealize suite of products from a single pane of glass, allowing users to perform tasks such as installation,...
View ArticleVMware ESXi – How to Determine Build Number via CLI
One quick method to discover your ESXi build number and version is to connect via ssh and run the following command from the ESXi console: vmware -vl The output displays a build number 8294256 and...
View ArticlevRSLCM 2.0 –‘Patch 1’ Install
For details of vRSLCM Patch 1 and associated fixes please refer to VMware KB59658 Note: It is best practice to snapshot vRSLCM before proceeding with the update. From the top right corner of vRSLCM...
View ArticlevRSLCM – Add a vROps Remote Collector
One of the cool things about vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager is the capability to add components to an existing LCM configured vROps. In this example it is demonstrated how to add a Remote Collector...
View ArticleVxRail – Visio Stencils
Thanks to our prod marketing team for creating these VxRail stencils which can be used in Microsoft Visio. The zip download below contains images of all VxRail series appliances both 13&14G...
View ArticleVxRail – VVD 4.3 (Notes)
Dell EMC VxRail and VMware Validated Design (VVD) brief notes: For a list of the VVD 4.3 BOM see here. VVD certification offers guidance on how to deploy the vRealize Suite (vRealize Automation,...
View ArticleVMware VVD 5.0 – BOM
Previous posts: VMware VVD 4.2 – BOM VMware VVD 4.3 – BOM VMware Validated Design 5.0 The following is a list of all the components and their versions as per VMware Validated Design 5.0. This new VVD...
View ArticleVMware vRSLCM 2.0 – Delete an Environment
VMware vRSLCM 2.0 – Delete an Environment: Quite a useful feature especially in a lab environment from where I normally operate! As you may gather from the versions specified below, this is a VVD 4.3...
View ArticleAVAMAR VE – Proxy Client Already Exists #202
Besides the obvious, you may encounter the following error while attempting to deploy an Avamar Proxy agent using the same hostname as one previously removed/deleted:Continue reading
View ArticleVVD on VxRail – Deploy vRealize Suite Leveraging vRSLCM (Part1 – vRA)
VMware VVD solutions leverage vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager (vRSLCM) tool for the automated deployment and the lifecycle management of the vRealize Suite products, namely: vRealizeContinue reading
View ArticleVMware – Useful Links
A general list of VMware sites which I use on a regular basis: VMware Product Interoperability Matrices VMware Compatibility Guide VMware Configuration Maximums VMware DownloadsContinue reading
View ArticleVMWARE VVD 5.0.1 – BOM
Previous posts: VMware VVD 4.2 – BOM VMware VVD 4.3 – BOM VMware VVD 5.0 – BOM VMware Validated Designs 5.0.1 The following is aContinue reading
View ArticleVMware vSAN – Viewing Disk Capacity (RVC)
There are multiple ways to skin this cat, in this example I will show how to view % disk capacity utilization leveraging the Ruby vSphereContinue reading
View ArticleVxRail –‘vCenter Sever Mgmt A/C Changed’
You may encounter this error due to various reasons such as password change or account lockout or if in this example for some odd reasonContinue reading
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