During troubleshooting of an NTP issue on my VCF Operations 9.1 environment, I came across an additional option for configuring NTP servers. In addition to the options available during the Operations deployment and the possibility of modifying the configuration via CLI, there is another option to configure NTP servers through the Administration GUI. To access... Continue Reading →
The Broadcom site ID of my company was renewed due to the consolidation of several older site IDs. What does this mean in the VMware context? All download tokens I created in april are now invalid, and neither my vCenter nor Lifecycle Manager in my home lab can download update files from Broadcom anymore. In... Continue Reading →
Since the acquisition by Broadcom, many things have changed, including the location where the downloads for the Health Analyzer files are available. https://docs.broadcom.com/docs/VHA-FULL-OVF10https://docs.broadcom.com/docs/VHA-COLLECTOR-OVF10https://docs.broadcom.com/docs/VHA-collector-install-and-user-guidehttps://pstoolhub.broadcom.com/ Furthermore, a key is required, and the link for it has also been moved to the Broadcom domain. https://pstoolhub.broadcom.com/index.html With this updated information, you should be able to access everything needed to... Continue Reading →
Since Broadcom introduced the new Download Tokens for entitlement-based access, it's important to configure them in all relevant VMware components to ensure smooth updates and patching. To set the token in VCSA VAMI: Go to https://<vcenter>:5480 Log in as root Navigate to Update > Settings Enter your Broadcom Download Token under Repository Settings https://dl.broadcom.com/<downloadToken>/PROD/COMP/VCENTER/vmw/8d167796-34d5-4899-be0a-6daade4005a3/8.0.3.00400 Replace <downloadToken> with the download token assigned to you. Further patches automatically update this URL.... Continue Reading →
I wanted to import a VM in a vCenter managed vSphere 7 cluster, but during the deployment/import task an error occured! I checked the the /var/log/vmware/vpxd.log, where I found the following line Transfer failed: Invalid response code: 403, note that HTTP/s proxy is configured for the transfer. So this brought me on track to check... Continue Reading →
During an Upgrade from vCenter 7.0 to vCenter 8.0 I run into a problem during Stage 2. While the wizard was showing that the data from "VMware Analytics Service" will be exported, nothing happens for 60 minutes and a it ends up with an error message. I never ever see this particular error before, so... Continue Reading →
Have you ever had the problem that your vCenter Lifecycle Manager (vLCM) could not connet to the default download source/repositories?? By default the standard is https://hostupdate.vmware.com/ and sometimes there are problems connect to them after changes, reboots or vCenter update/upgrades. If you want to check if its a problem related by the changes you made... Continue Reading →
If you want to upgrade your vCenter Server Appliance from 7.0.x to 8.0x you have to check a lot dependencies and Interoperabilities, but one thing the most of you (including me) may didn´t have on the radar... The LDAPS certificate!! The error showed a certificate issued for an AD related system and so I discovered... Continue Reading →
Have you ever wonder how to update the Nvidia vGPU vibs on your ESXi servers? In this case I updated an ESXi 7.0.3 to Nvidia vGPU 16.2. Get the version that is supported for your environment from Nvidia -> https://docs.nvidia.com/grid/ and store them on a storage you can access from each ESXi (Shared ISO datastore... Continue Reading →
If you have a home lab or a sealed off environment with no DNS in place, you can use the local hosts files of vCenter and ESXi to setup a "name service". You can use vi to edit the /etc/hosts file or to make it much easier use this command echo "192.168.0.1 esx01 esx01.domain.local" >>/etc/hosts... Continue Reading →
