VCF & vSphere Commands
Kader Useful vcf and vsphere commands that I use often. In sddc manager your product show as – are not in ACTIVE state ssh to sddc manager via vcf account su…
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Replace certificates with SDDC Manager using Microsoft Certificate authority
This blog is a walkthrough of replacing your vcenter, sddc manager and nsx-t certificates using a sddc manager using a Microsoft certificate authority. You can do it a couple of…
VMware Operations Manager (vrops) certificate expired
If your vrops certificates has expired you wont be able to take your cluster offline or online. You will need to default your certificates and if you have an custom…
Create & Import an Microsoft Certificate Authority signed certificate using VMware Lifecycle Manager suite 8.6.2 (vrslcm)
Login to vrslcm Click locker Click generate csr Type in the details of the csr and click generate (in this example I am using my vrops) File will automatically download…
Replace VMware Operations Manager 8.6.2 certificate with vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.7
In this blog I will go through replacing my vrops certificates with lifecycle manager (vrslcm). My vrops servers have been imported into vrslcm to better manager Lifecyle operations. I have…
Upgrade NSX-T from 3.2.1 to 4.0.0.1
In this blog I am doing a walkthrough of upgrading nsx-t from 3.2.1 to 4.0.0.1. Before you start make sure DRS is enabled and it is full automated & that…
ADDING MULTIPLE NICS ON AN ESXI HOST VIA API IN SDDC MANAGER
SDDC UI currently has a limitation adding more then two nics per esxi host. The below has two API configs 1. To add an esxi host back to an existing…
skipping esxi host during a VCF upgrade and control their order
In this blog I am going through skipping hosts during a VCF upgrade so you can control the order of the host upgrade. There are some items in this blog…
Remove a sddc manager bundle
Find the bundle id from sddc manager bundle id can be found in sddc manager GUI ssh into sddc manager su python /opt/vmware/vcf/lcm/lcm-app/bin/bundle_cleanup.py 4073e1c9-4eeb-4d46-97b5-374daa24be41 python /opt/vmware/vcf/lcm/lcm-app/bin/bundle_cleanup.py 05be2afd-990d-45bd-9472-fab032e8c696 bundle is removed…
Remove an absent disk from vSAN
When you try to remove the missing disk from vsan disk management in vcenter it fails as it is missing. The below is to remove the missing disk via command…