Yahya zahedi, Author at Virtualization Blog

September 25, 2024

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 following components: Today, I successfully integrated Microsoft Certificate Authority with VCF and below are the steps I followed to accomplish […]

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September 25, 2024

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 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 […]

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August 2, 2024

Installing VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle

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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July 12, 2024

Looking forward to my second VMware Explore

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 […]

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July 7, 2024

Run ESXCLi and ESXi Shell Commands through Powershell

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 […]

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May 6, 2024

vSAN Monitoring and Troubleshooting Tools – Part 2

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 […]

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April 28, 2024

vSAN Monitoring and Troubleshooting Tools – Part 1

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! […]

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April 22, 2024

Update vSAN Cluster

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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April 18, 2024

Removing inaccessible objects in 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. During several reboots of hosts in my lab, the vCLS virtual machine became inaccessible. However, a new one has been created, but old objects still exist in the vSAN. I see inaccessible objects […]

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April 4, 2024

Shut Down and Power On vSAN Cluster

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. One of the cool features of vSAN is the Shutdown Cluster Wizard, which assists you in shutting down the vSAN cluster for maintenance or troubleshooting. Previously, these steps had to be performed manually […]

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