My first experience with vSAN goes back to 2019 when I worked as a virtualization consultant at APK in Iran. During that time, I had the opportunity to work on several projects involving vSAN, and it was truly an excellent experience. This positive encounter motivated me to pursue the vSAN 2017 certification and continuously try to stay updated and expand […]
I was involved in a project where we had to replace the vSAN Witness Appliance. I told customer that since we’ve had to do it multiple times, we should automate the process using a tool like Terraform! he was also happy with this decision! If you have ever deployed vSAN Witness Appliances manually through vCenter, you already know it is […]
When deploying my new VCF environment, I forgot to adjust the JSON file to specify only NSX Cluster with only one node. As a result, after deployment, I saw that my NSX environment was set up with three nodes instead of one. Since this is a test environment, I wanted to remove the extra nodes and retain just one to […]
VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) enables us to manage certificates for different components, including integrating a certificate authority, generating CSRs and generating signed certificates and installing signed certificates. In this post, I want to show how I managed certificates for the following components: Today, I successfully integrated Microsoft Certificate Authority with VCF and below are the steps I followed to accomplish […]
I was upgrading my home lab from VCF 5.0.0 to 5.1.0, when I encountered the following error. Upon expanding the error for more details, it only displayed “Upgrade_Third Party” To investigate further, I accessed the SDDC Manager via SSH examined logs under this location “/var/log/vmware/vcf/lcm/thirdparty/upgrades/<upgrade_id>/vcf-platform/upgrade:” There I found a log entry “CAP services are not enabled in SDDC Manager” I […]
In this post, I will use the VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle Easy Installer for Aria Automation and vIDM to install a VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle instance. Configure DNS for the VMware Aria Suite Products You need to configure DNS records for the VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle, VMware IdentityManager and VMware Aria Automation instances that you plan to deploy using Aria […]
Yesterday, while I was working on a project remotely, I received an email that interrupted my focus for a moment. To be honest, I couldn’t believe the news it contained. I immediately told the customer that I would be present at VMware Explore in the coming year! I have always enjoyed participating in events like VMware Explore. Despite having moved […]
Today, as part of setting up my new VCF lab, I needed to renew all the ESXi certificates in my home lab. Typically, you can regenerate the self-signed certificates on each ESXi host using SSH with the following commands: However, I didn’t want to manually connect to each host via SSH and run the commands. Instead, I looked for a […]
This is part of the VMware vSAN guide post series. You can access and explore more objectives from the VMware vSAN study guide using the following link. There are several tools available to achieve this purpose, and it is necessary to be familiar with these tools in order to facilitate faster troubleshooting. In the previous post, I walked through vSAN […]
This is part of the VMware vSAN guide post series. You can access and explore more objectives from the VMware vSAN study guide using the following link. Up to this point of vSAN study guide, I’ve primarily discussed configuration, settings, features, and the process of running a vSAN cluster, along with keeping it updated. So far, everything’s been working good! […]
This is part of the VMware vSAN guide post series. You can access and explore more objectives from the VMware vSAN study guide using the following link. In this post, I want to update my vSAN Cluster from version 8 to version 8 Update 2. Updating vSAN is a multistage process. You must update vCenter first, then ESXi, and finally […]
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