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  • vExpert 2026 — Why Sharing What You Learn Still Matters
    ITQ | VCF | vExpert

    vExpert 2026 — Why Sharing What You Learn Still Matters

    Bypaul@vandieen.com 04/04/202604/04/2026

    I am proud to share that I have been awarded the VMware vExpert 2026 title by Broadcom. Being part of the vExpert community is something I genuinely value, and receiving this recognition for another year means a lot. I am also proud to be part of ITQ, where I work as a Consultant. ITQ is…

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  • Export and Import vCenter Custom Roles with PowerShell
    Automation | ITQ | PowerCLI | Powershell | vCenter | VCF

    Export and Import vCenter Custom Roles with PowerShell

    Bypaul@vandieen.com 31/03/202631/03/2026

    If you have ever spent time carefully building custom roles in vCenter — defining exactly which privileges a monitoring account, a backup service, or a Tanzu user needs — you know how tedious it is to recreate those same roles on a second vCenter. There is no native export button in the vSphere Client. You…

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  • Automating vSphere VLAN Validation — A Complete Toolset
    ITQ | Linux | vCenter | VCF | vSphere

    Automating vSphere VLAN Validation — A Complete Toolset

    Bypaul@vandieen.com 15/03/202615/03/2026

    The Problem Anyone who has spent time managing VMware vSphere environments knows the pain of VLAN validation. You’ve just rolled out a new set of port groups, migrated a batch of VMs, or made changes to your distributed switch configuration — and now you need to verify that each VLAN actually works end-to-end. The traditional…

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  • Automating ESXi Host Preparation and Commissioning for VCF 9 with PowerShell
    ITQ | PowerCLI | Powershell | VCF | vSphere

    Automating ESXi Host Preparation and Commissioning for VCF 9 with PowerShell

    Bypaul@vandieen.com 07/03/202602/04/2026

    Overview When commissioning ESXi hosts into SDDC Manager as part of a VMware Cloud Foundation 9 deployment, there are a handful of preparation steps that need to be done on every host before it can be added to the inventory. Doing this manually across a dozen or more hosts is tedious and error-prone, so I…

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  • Automating NSX Segment Migration with PowerShell
    API | ITQ | NSX | Powershell | VCF

    Automating NSX Segment Migration with PowerShell

    Bypaul@vandieen.com 06/03/202618/03/2026

    A set of three PowerShell scripts to export, import, and clean up NSX segmentsand segment profiles across any NSX environment — compatible with NSX 4.x and 9.x. GitHub: https://github.com/pauldiee/nsx-segment-migration Introduction Migrating NSX segments between environments is one of those tasks that soundsstraightforward until you are actually doing it. Move a handful of segments byhand and…

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  • ITQ | vCenter | VCF

    VCF9 – HTTP failure on Network Pools in vCenter

    Bypaul@vandieen.com 03/11/202503/11/2025

    After setting up VIDB authentication and adding our AD groups to the administrators role we logged into vcenter with our own admin account and noticed we could not open the hosts section where you Commission hosts and add/edit Network pools: This is a rights issue with SDDC Manager, you have to add your admin accounts…

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  • ITQ | VCF

    VCF9 – Setting up Backup

    Bypaul@vandieen.com 21/10/2025

    When using VCF9 there are multiple places to configure SFTP backup for some components. For SDDC Manager and NSX it is still somewhat the same as in VCF 5 but within “Operations – Administration – SDDC Manager – Backups”. Here you configure your external SFTP and setup schedule and retention periods for those 2 products….

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  • ITQ | VCF

    VCF9 – More DNS issues Cloud Collector

    Bypaul@vandieen.com 17/10/2025

    When deploying VCF9 you can also run into an extended wait timeout when in phase of deploying Operations. If you then look into the domainmanager logfile you can see this error : this happens to be already document by Broadcom in the following KB article : https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article/409008/the-firstboot-of-the-vcf-operations-coll.html Apparently the cloud collector HAproxy component tries to…

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  • ITQ | VCF

    VCF9 VCF Installer DNS issues

    Bypaul@vandieen.com 16/10/202517/10/2025

    When using VCF Installer deployed on one of the hosts used in the to be created Management Domain we ran into an issue with DNS config. OVA was deployed with all settings correct and DNS records created including PTR (reverse) records. After some testing we found the hosts file on the SDDC Manager/VCF Installer to…

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  • ITQ | LifeCycle Manager | vRealize Operations

    VCF Password remediation on Operations cloud proxies

    Bypaul@vandieen.com 04/12/202404/12/2024

    We recently installed some new Operations cloud proxies through VRSLCM and these got automatically added to the password inventory of VCF in SDDC Manager, for some reason the passwords showed disconnected and we could not update or remediate the passwords to fix this issue. A closer look into the error showed something about making an…

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