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 […]
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 […]
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