Monthly Archives: January 2020

How to successfully repoint vCenter 6x appliance to another platform service controller - Step-By-Step 1

How to successfully repoint vCenter 6x appliance to another platform service controller – Step-By-Step

Repoint vCenter server to a another platform service controller is quite easy. Recently I needed to repoint a vCenter in a different site to it’s dedicated platform services controller. The current setup was an enhanced linked mode of two vCenters pointing to the same platform service controller. By deploying an additional platform service controller in…

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How to deploy vCloud Director 9.7 cells in HA - Step-by-Step 2

How to deploy vCloud Director 9.7 cells in HA – Step-by-Step

In this article, I will show you how to deploy vCloud Director 9.7 appliance cells in a HA topology. The installation of vCloud Director 9.7 is really straight forward and can be completed with the wonderful vCloud Director documentation page available online. In one of the upcoming articles, I will also demonstrate the migration from…

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Failed to set the time via NTP Details - vCenter upgrade failed 6x Step-By-Step 3

Failed to set the time via NTP Details – vCenter upgrade failed 6x Step-By-Step

Yesterday I had a scheduled maintenance to upgrade a vSphere environment from 6.5 to 6.7U2. This includes the upgrade from vCenter version 6.5 to 6 7U2C. Unfortunately I had a NTP error that caused the failure of the upgrade job. The deployment of the target (vCenter) appliance with the ISO file provided by VMware wasn’t…

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