Three customer projects, three different environments, and the same pattern each time: the upgrade plan was fine, and what cost the time was something small that had been sitting in the environment for years, or a message that didn’t mean what it seemed to say. This post collects the findings I’d want to know before…
In a full VCF fleet, a lot happens without anyone asking for it. The Installer deploys VCF Operations, its Cloud Proxy and a License Server at bring-up, Fleet lifecycle registers every vCenter with VCF Operations, and SDDC Manager drives the upgrade phase by phase. Run VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF) 9.1 without VCF Management Services —…
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…
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…
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…
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 made a simple script for 1 job : changing the portgroup for multiple vm’s in the same portgroup.The script will ask which portgroup you want to move vm’s from using a selection after that using the same method it will ask you for the portgroup to move to. Then it will change all the…
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…
When upgrading a vCenter from 6.7 to 7.0.2 today i ran into something i haven’t seen before…. a quick google search led me to KB article 84355. https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/84355 what you need to do is lookup the PNID and the hostname and with that information you need to change the hostname to the PNID output which…
