VCF Anyone? Get your license for free…

12 november 2024 VMware
In a press release from Broadcom (https://news.broadcom.com/releases/vmware-explore-2024-barcelona-vmware-cloud-foundation), they announced some expanded capabilities but also something interesting for professionals like me… Free VCF Licenses through VMUG Advantage for VCF Certified Professionals <quote>VMUG is an independent, global, customer-led organization, created to maximize members’ use of VMware and partner solutions through knowledge sharing,…

Configure Entra ID as Cloud Director IdP

12 november 2024 Azure Cloud Director VMware
Cloud Director organizations can use local accounts for administration. But larger organizations may already have some sort of identity provider in place such as Microsoft Entra ID. So why create and manage local users when you already have an IdP available? This article describes the configuration steps for using Microsoft…

Removing/updating vCenter Trusted Root Certificates

24 januari 2024 Solutions VMware
Last month I had to update the machine certificate of vCenter (SSL). I prepared the new certificate and the certificate chain. In the end, I was able to change the machine certificate but the Trusted Root certificate of the Intermediate CA was not updated and needed to be replaced. However,…

Update VxRail Manager TLS Certificate

3 januari 2024 Solutions VMware
The VxRail Manager VM uses its own SSL certificate that eventually will expire. When this happens an alarm will be shown in vCenter: VXR028008 ALARM SSL certificate is within 30 days of expiring. The alarm has a reference to KB 00194212. However, this KB article only tells you to replace…

Cloud Director VM compliancy

30 november 2023 Cloud Director VMware
If you create a VM in VMware Cloud Director you can choose a compute policy (T-shirt size) and/or placement policy. With a placement policy, you can control where the VM should run. This can be useful for VMs with a specific OS (Windows) where you want to pin them on…

VCF pre-check error installing async patch

8 november 2023 Solutions VMware
On 25th October VMware released a Security Advisory (https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2023-0023.html) about two vulnerabilities in vCenter. One of them had a CVSS score of 9,8 (out of 10) so it was very important to patch the vCenter servers in the environment. The environment was based on VCF so you cannot just install…

Connecting to Cloud Director using API Token

17 oktober 2023 Cloud Director VMware
When you log in to VMware Cloud Director you can use a username and password. But for automation purposes like Terraform, this is not very user-friendly. For this kind of applications, you can use API access tokens. From https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Cloud-Director/10.4/VMware-Cloud-Director-Tenant-Portal-Guide/GUID-A1B3B2FA-7B2C-4EE1-9D1B-188BE703EEDE.html: Starting with VMware Cloud Director 10.3.1, you can generate and issue…

Cloud Director VAMI Setup – NFS Errors

4 september 2023 Cloud Director Solutions VMware
Today we got some complaints from users about slow VMware Cloud Director tasks. It took 40 minutes to create a VM, 10 minutes to power off, and 10 minutes to eject media. Not good! Not good at all! After logging in to the VAMI of the primary cell we noticed…

VCDA – Operation canceled

5 juni 2023 Cloud Director Solutions VMware
I was working on setting up a protection from an on-prem vCenter to a cloud site running VMware Cloud Director but whatever I did, I received an error message “Operation canceled due to an unexpected error”. From my point of view, an error is always unexpected, but I wanted to…