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…

Veeam Guest Credentials test failed

13 april 2023 Solutions
I was trying to add my laptop to my local Veeam Backup & Replication server but was unsuccessful in adding it to a protection group. The error I received was: Veeam Guest Credentials test failed: rpc connection failed First I tried all the obvious… Adding ports to the local firewall……

Reset your Windows password in 5 minutes

12 april 2023 Solutions
Every once in a while you run into a server that is not in a domain and nobody knows the Administrator password. What do you do? When you boot the server with a standard Windows ISO file you go into the recovery options and open a Command window. In that…

Copying Home Assistant configuration to GitHub

14 november 2022 DIY HomeAssistant
After some issues with my Home Assistant setup, I looked at ways to save my configuration files to GitHub. I found a very detailed Youtube video that showed how to do it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhv-WqGUy_o However, in the end, the automated solution used an option I did not want to use: “StrictHostKeyChecking=no“.…