Unregister or remove an vCenter plugin
Kader The below blog is a walk through of removing an unwanted plugin from vCenter this may because the application or virtual machine has been deleted and has left the plugin…
VCF 4.4 Prerequisite Error: SSL Certificate Common Name Doesn’t Match ESXi FQDN
Alexandra When deploying VCF 4.4.1.0 in my lab I came across the following error under the security requirements validation section: Failed to get SSH key for host Error connecting to ESXi…
Deploying NSX via the vCenter Plugin
In NSX-T version 3.2, VMware introduced a native vCenter plugin for NSX. This plugin makes NSX much easier to deploy and operate for existing vSphere users who don’t have much…
Understanding the mp-cluster and tomcat certificates on nsx-t (standalone and vcf install)
Your mp-cluster and tomcat are your front end ssl certificates on a standalone setup of nsx-t manager, they are located in the nsx-t manager certificate store in the UI. If…
vSAN encryption data-at-rest & VM/VMcrypt encryption with Native Key Provider NKP setup
This blog is a walk through to setup vSan encryption data-at-rest and VM/VMcrypt encryption with the vSphere native key provider. Data-at-Rest encryption in a vSphere environment can occur either inside…
Stretch a cluster using SDDC manager API
The following blog goes through stretching a management cluster in a VCF environment on 4.4.1.0. You need to ensure you have deployed your edges first in management, you have commissioned…
Deleting, updating, cleaning licenses in sddc manager
When you try to delete a license from sddc manager manager it fails and throws a error message that it is in use, like below This would happen if you…
vSAN – Calculating the number of hosts that your vSAN Cluster will need for Failure to tolerate (FTT)
In a vSAN policy the configuration you will have is Raid 1, Raid 5 and Raid 6. The failure to tolerate (ftt) can be 1, 2 or 3 for a…
Study Resources for the VCP-DCV 2022 – V7 (First VMware Certification)
When I started with VMware as part of the graduate program in February, I knew almost nothing about vSphere. In this post I’ll share some of the resources I used…
Create an edge cluster on VCF & Cisco configuration
Edges provide north-south routing and network services in the management domain and VI workload domains. In my lab I have only one physical cisco 3750g switch, so in this walk…