VMware vSAN – Study Guide
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…
Building a Portable VCF 9.0 Offline Depot with Docker on Mac
In my part of Krefeld, the internet infrastructure still relies on DSL technology. No matter how much I pay my provider, they cannot give me more than 16Mbps because the physical wires can’t go faster. For a normal home, this…
Troubleshooting VCF Automation: Why 54GB (and 64GB) isn’t enough for home lab
If you are installing VCF Automation using the VCF Installer or Fleet Management and your installation stops with error LCMVMSP10002, you are not alone. In this post, I will show you how to find the problem, how to get SSH…
“Request and Configure VCF Operations fleet management SSL Certificate” failed during VCF 9.0 deployment
Recently, I was working on a new deployment of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) version 9.0.0.0. The process was going smoothly until it reached the stage of configuring VCF Operations fleet management. The deployment failed during a security step. I want…
Enabling Log Collection and Replacing Certificates in VCF Operations for Logs
In the previous post, I deployed a VCF Operations for Logs appliance, but initial configuration still needs to completed. In this post, I will first enable Log Collection and then replace self-signed certificate with a CA-signed certificate. To use VCF…
Deploying the VCF Operations for Logs Appliance in VCF 9
Last week I completed my VCF 9 lab, which I will explain in more detail later, including hardware and overall lab design. Now I want to deploy VCF Operations for Logs in my home lab. Deploying VCF Operations for Logs…
Adding an NFS Share on TrueNAS for ESXi
While deploying a new two node cluster in my VCF 9 lab, I decided to use True NAS as the NFS storage solution. Everything looked fine at first, both ESXi hosts mounted the NFS datastore without any issue. But I…
Deploy Multiple vSAN Witness Appliances Using Terraform
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…
How to Reduce a Three-Node NSX Cluster to a Single Node
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…
Step-by-Step Guide to Managing Certificates in VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)
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…
SDDC Manager Third_Party Upgrade fails at Setup Common Appliance Platform (CAP)
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…