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….
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…
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…
