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…

VxRail Console Commands

11 mei 2023 Solutions VMware
Find missing disks Update disk information Restart VxRail Manager services Change disk serial number on host Restart VxRail platform service on host

VxRail Cluster Health Monitoring disabled

11 mei 2023 Solutions VMware
A while ago I had to change a disk in a vSAN disk group and for some reason, the Physical Health view in vCenter showed the information of the old disk. A closer look told me that Health Monitoring was not enabled so I selected the cluster and looked at…

Handy one-liners

1 mei 2023 Microsoft VMware
Every once in a while you stumble upon a one-liner that you want to remember. So where do you keep those? Here! Clear VCSA Backup History rm /storage/applmgmt/backup_restore/backup-history.json Reset VAMI Update Status rm /etc/applmgmt/appliance/software_update_state.conf Restart Management Agents services.sh restart &tail -f /var/log/jumpstart-stdout.log Finding Templates based on Tag name (Get-Template |…

Deploying Patches to VCF – RTFM

1 mei 2023 VMware
If there are important patches to deploy in your VCF environment you can use the VMware Async Patch Tool to deploy those patches. You can find a lot of information on the internet on using this tool but still, I ran into some issues. Don’t be like me and read…

Upgrading Cloud Director without Admin account credentials

18 april 2023 VMware
When you want to upgrade VMware Cloud Director you need to have the <admin_username>. At least, that’s what it says when you follow the official documentation. Unfortunately, I didn’t have access to these credentials. The only credentials I had were for the root account. But it turned out you can…