We wanted to add a VxRail VI WLD because we had four VxRail Nodes in our demo environment that had become free. This time we wanted it do it the “new way” which is possible since Version 5.2 – using the SDDC Manager UI instead of the WFO script. During the addition of the VI …
If you are updating the SDDC Manager from 5.2 to 5.2.1 in a strictly firewall secured environment where only a few, officially vendor documented URLs are allowed for outgoing traffic then you can possibly run into the same issue as we did. During the SDDC Manager update the process is stuck in the step “Refresh …
If you want to deploy a new VCF 5.2 Management Workload Domain using the Cloud Builder Appliance and want to activate the EVC mode during the deployment (what IMO you should always do except in the lab), it will unfortunately fail in the step “Enable Cluster EVC Mode”. Inexplicably, the deployment activates EVC mode after …
If you ever have some disk space issues on the SDDC Manager or just want to clean up all the old, downloaded update/upgrade bundles which you don’t need anymore, there is a nice PowerShell script from VMware which I want to show you in this post. The script is called VcfBundleManagement.ps1. It is explained in …
After a few months of winter darkness, rain, even storm (over here in Germany) and mostly negative publicity because of the Broadcom acquisition of VMware we can finally see the light at the end of the (SDDC) tunnel. The summer is back and so is VMware – back with a big and shiny monster release! …
If you ever need a new VI Workload Domain in VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Version 5.1 using NFS as principal storage and you don’t have a DHCP serverfor the Host TEP network of your Transport Nodes (or don’t want to use one) you have to get a little creative. Unfortunately, you cannot use one of …
