Recreating VCF Managed vSAN Disk Groups
July 4, 2021 Recreating VCF Managed vSAN Disk Groups Misconfigured Tags This post discusses incorrectly tagged disks for all-flash vSAN, on hosts that are part of a VCF domain. When…
Errors with VCF 4.2.1 Configuration Drift Bundle
August 3, 2021 Errors with VCF 4.2.1 Configuration Drift Bundle Precheck Failures Preventing Upgrades The Issue? “NSX-T Audit Check Failures” Ordinarily, upgrading VCF versions should be easy. Unfortunately, this isn’t…
VCF SDDC Manager Bundle Checksum Issue
August 27, 2021 VCF SDDC Manager Bundle Checksum Issue LcmException: bundle checksum does NOT match the manifest value The Issue? SDDC Manager Bundle Downloads Fail with the above issue When…
Replace a Failed vSAN Diskgroup on a VCF Managed Node
September 9, 2021 Replace a Failed vSAN Diskgroup on a VCF Managed Node VCF Upgrade Workflow Description – Upgrade – ESX_HOST The Issue? SDDC Manager Upgrade Workflow Fails During the…
Deploy NSX-T Edge Clusters using SDDC Manager API
September 21, 2021 Deploy NSX-T Edge Clusters using SDDC Manager API A quicker way to deploy multiple clusters What? Utilize SDDC Manager’s API to deploy NSX-T Edge Clusters I decided…
NSX-T Federated VCF Regions (VCF Multi-Region)
October 25, 2021 NSX-T Federated VCF Regions (VCF Multi-Region) A Step-by-step approach A Written Guide to NSX-T Federated VCF Regions The intention of this post is to provide some of…
Rebuild a Failed VCF Managed Host
March 10, 2022 Rebuild a Failed VCF Managed Host Replace a Host With Custom NIC Mapping The Issue? A host in the VCF Management Domain Failed In this post I…
VCF – Delete Domain Failed
June 8, 2022 VCF – Delete Domain Failed Delete Domain Workflow Fails The Issue – Delete Domain Workflow Failed? Deleting a Workload Domain in SDDC Manager may result in the…
VMware Cloud Foundation Add Host and Cluster Failed – LAB2PROD
The Issue?: Can’t Add Hosts or Clusters to VCF Domains You’ve done everything right; built resilient data centers using VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Regions, patched both data centers, enabled NSX…
Manual Product Upgrades – LAB2PROD
February 13, 2024 VMware Cloud Foundation: Manual Product Upgrades Why You Shouldn’t Upgrade VMware NSX Manually The Issue? It is important to understand the impacts of manually upgrading products…
VMware Cloud Foundation: Patching Failed – LAB2PROD
VCF February 7, 2024 VMware Cloud Foundation: Patching Failed SDDC Manager: Unable To Configure Security Global Config The Issue? There are 6 steps to upgrade a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)…
3 Reasons Why VMware vSphere Needs Aria Operations
VMware by Broadcom recently announced a dramatic simplification of their product portfolio to unlock more value from customer investments. The cost of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), the flagship enterprise hybrid…
Accelerate Sustainability Targets with VMware
This post will look at how VMware prioritises Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG), and how it supports and accelerates its global customer base with their own sustainability initiatives. The focus…
Multi-Cloud Infrastructure: Five New Innovations
At VMware Explore Las Vegas, VMware President, Summit Dhawan introduced 5 new, major innovations that strengthen VMware’s Cloud and Edge Infrastructure offering, part of VMware Cross-Cloud services. VMware Cross-Cloud services…
Domain Failed State
VMware Cloud Foundation: Domain Failed State Environment Upgrade Blocked The Issue? Upgrading VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 4.5.1 to VCF 5 results in a host failure or host error state,…
VMware NSX-T 3.x: Traffic Capture on Tier-0 Gateway Uplink – vExpert Consultancy
This post will walk you through the steps needed to capture the incoming/outgoing traffic on Tier0 gateway uplink level. The result will be a PCAP file that can be imported…
VCF, NSX, SD-WAN, AWS – LAB2PROD
NSX-ALB August 30, 2022 HomeLab 2022: VCF, NSX, SD-WAN, AWS Architecture and Hardware Refresh I get asked about my homelab quite a bit, so this post details the recent architecture…