When upgrading VRSLCM from 8.16 to 8.18 we went with the latest SPS for 8.16 and then the upgrade to 8.18 with the ISO. After that we went on with the latests SPS 4 for 8.18. This all went fine until the webui showed starting services for a very long time. After doing some checks…
VMware has released diagnostic tools for vCenter and VCF to check your environments health quickly and easily. Find the official documentation here: Using the VCF Diagnostic Tool for SDDC Manager Using the VCF Diagnostic Tool for vSphere (VDT) Also they have released a new script (which has some powershell requirements and needs PowerVCF) but it…
When trying to remove a networkpool in SDDC Manager which had no more hosts connected to it VCF still thinks there are a couple of ip’s in use which is not the case. This is how we fixed the networkpools in VCF so they are actually empty with VMware Support. Make sure before you do…
VMware added a method to reset a locked/forgotten root pass without the need for restarting the appliance and having to go into GRUB to boot into single user mode. login to the VAMI on port 5480 and login with your SSO Admin (administrator@vsphere.local). From there you can use the top right menu to change the…
I was patching esxi hosts and had 1 host that was waiting to go into maintenance for hours because of a stuck vsan resyncing process (something with a stale object). After we fixed the vsan issue we could put the host into maintenance again but VCF had decided to put the host into an ERROR…
First we have to disable the current LCM installation in the SDDC Manager database, for this we login with SSH with vcf user and switch user to root and run the following command : From here we can delete the LCM installation with the API call from the Developer centre in SDDC Manager. This will…
After deploying my edges and creating the AVN for the deployments of the VRSLCM and deploying Aria Operations i noticed my VIP address was not working. After some troubleshooting i found that the static route was not created on the standalone T1 gateway where the loadbalancer lives. Normally this is done by VCF as that…
We have a clustered VIDM installation which gave us login problems after a SDDC manager upgrade from 4.4.1 to 4.5.1, this does not seem related at all but the timing is when the problems started. After some investigation we noticed we could not login to the second node with root or sshuser and noticed that…
Coming from 8.10.2 our upgrade process got stuck for unknown reasons so we engaged support and they helped us upgrade it starting from the web ui and upgrading the primary went fine but it did not progress through the second and third node. From here we uploaded the PAK file to both nodes into /tmp/…
I made a script that will output the current license keys per cluster and changes them to a new one which the script will ask for. Just make sure you have the license key already added to vCenter. The script will ask you for inputs so it should just work. But better to be safe…
