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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 saw the workflow for deploying cluster in VCF Operations Manager failed. Clearly, it was a permissions issue, after a bit […]

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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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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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