Category Archives: VMware
Stretch Management Domain in VCF 5.1.1
In this article, we’ll guide you through the process of stretching a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) management domain across two availability zones, enhancing your infrastructure’s resilience and ensuring continuous availability. By the end of this tutorial, you’ll have a solid understanding of how to configure and manage a stretched VCF deployment to protect your critical…
Deploy Edge Cluster in a Workload Domain in VCF 5.1.1
Once you have a Management Domain or a VI Workload Domain, you can deploy an Edge cluster from the SDDC Manager. The SDDC Manager will initiate the deployment and configuration of the Edge cluster, resulting in a fully configured and operational Edge cluster in less than an hour, depending on your hardware. Add Edge Cluster…
Deploy VI Workload Domain with vVols in VCF 5.1.1
Once your VCF management domain is fully operational, you may want to set up a VI Workload domain to deploy your workloads. In this article, we will guide you through the process of deploying a VI Workload Domain with vVols in VCF 5.1.1. For our example, we will use Pure Storage to create a vVol…
Automating LDAPS Configuration on vCenter Server using PowerCLI and Bash
In today’s post, we’ll explore a PowerShell script that automates the LDAPS configuration (LDAP over SSL) on a vCenter Server. This script, named Configure-VcIdentitySourceLdaps.ps1, performs various tasks, including connecting to a vCenter Server, retrieving certificates from a domain controller, and configuring LDAPS with SSO (Single Sign-On). Let’s dive into the details of the script and…
Remove cloud-config from existing vRA 8 deployments
In vRA you have the possibility to enable cloud-config in your blueprints to automate certain tasks at creation time. This could be tasks like installing packages, changing root credentials, setting a hostname and much more. vRA and cloud-config When you enable cloud-config in a blueprint and perform a deployment, an ISO file will be created…
vIDM 3.3.6 Directory Sync Failed
The VMware Identity Manager (vIDM) was running fine for a while until we received a mail notification from the vIDM appliance stating that the directory sync is failing with the following error message: “The specified Bind DN and password could not be used to successfully authenticate against the directory”. Investigating the issue I wanted to…
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How to migrate NSX-V to NSX 4.1.0 with the Migration Coordinator [User Defined Topology]
This is the second part of the migrate NSX-V to NSX series. Click here if you haven’t seen part 1, where I describe the Fixed Topology migration mode . This time, we will cover the User Defined Topology migration mode in the NSX Migration Coordinator. Lab overview The lab contains of the following: Migration Topology…
Configure IPSec VPN tunnels with terraform in Cloud Director 10.x
In my previous blog post, I showed you how to configure IPSec VPN tunnels from within the Cloud Director GUI. But what if you want to automate this repetitive task? In this blog post I will explain how you can achieve this with Terraform. Configuring and maintaining the IPSec VPN tunnels will become more easy…
Configure IPSec VPN tunnels in Cloud Director 10.x
This is a quick blog post on how to configure IPSec VPN tunnels in Cloud Director with a NSX-T backed Edge node. To get this working, we need to configure the remote endpoint with the matching IPSec VPN configurations as in Cloud Director. Requirements In order to configure a site to site IPSec VPN tunnel…
Upgrade vRA 8.6.2 to 8.10.2 without vRSLCM
One of the vRSLCM (vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager) was recently upgraded without checking the interoperability of the products that were managed by vRSLCM. This broke the connectivity/managebility between vRA on version 8.6.2 (vRealize Automation) and the vRSLCM on version 8.10.0.6. In this blog post i’m going to show you how to upgrade the vRA appliance…