I have been scripting alot of post tasks after creating a new cluster for a existing Workload domain in VCF. Here they are : The first one is to join all your hosts to Active Directory for local authentication: This one will rename those nasty local datastores to their respective hostnames! The next one will…
We had a dead host in our environment which needed a reinstall due to a failed boot drive. So we needed to remove the host from the Workload domain. We used the VMware documented way to remove it : https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Cloud-Foundation/4.4/vcf-admin/GUID-41BE1B30-8D52-43BF-8297-0059B92D723D.html We used the “normal” way and not Force because we had enough hosts left :…
We ran into an issue where our remote collectors only worked for a couple days and after that we had to reset (reboot) them to start collecting again. Instead of troubleshooting the issue we choose to redeploy the appliances with more resources (large). We have 2 remote collectors per VCF site and we choose to…
The quickest way to recover from a expired vCenter root password in a VCF environment is too connect to the vcenter with SSH and it will prompt you to enter a new password. It might be that the SSH session will log you out very fast so have old and new passwords ready! If you…
VMware just released this exciting new subscription model for vSphere and vSAN and i decided to look up some information about it and came across this awesome blogpost from William Lam. Considerations and Requirements for VCGW I took this piece of information about the new appliance that the subscription uses and pasted it here, i…
Trying to upgrade to 6.6.0 from 6.2.0 in one shot unfortunately is not allowed… so i downloaded 6.4.0 and gone ahead and installed that first. Update took about an hour to complete to give you an estimate. Now i can finally take new snaps and go ahead with the upgrade to 6.6.0 which now agrees…
I got a question from a colleague if we could export the disk information of a certain vm which had 37 vmdk’s and they needed the size and names of all of them. So i went searching for something like i usually do with the use of Google :). I came across another blogger who…
I was in need of a way to check if a VM is placed in 2 DRS groups so i made a little script to read out the vm cluster groups and get the members (vm’s) and then output the names of the vm’s that are in both groups. This bit of code also includes…
Last couple of days i have been making some small but very usefull “scripts” to perform some tedious tasks where i did not feel like clicking in the GUI to make it all happen. Chapter 1 : Check MAC to find VM’s I think the title says it all, simple import of csv file with…
Something i struggled with in the past is setting the productlocker, hassle with scripts and ssh and avoiding host reboots. Today we had to configure another 20 hosts with this and i was pointed to a solution doing it with the MOB. So my next thing was, how to automate this. And with 2 simple…
