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…
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…
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…
