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 access, and why your home lab needs more memory than the VMware Hands-on Labs (HOL). The VCF Installer Loop I […]
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 to share the error I faced and the simple steps I took to fix it. First the problem: In the […]
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 Operations for logs, you must integrate it with a vCenter instance of version 9 that is licensed with a VMware […]
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 is pretty straightforward. You first need to download the binary file and then start the workflow. This is typically a […]
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 […]
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