Introduction The other day we were upgrading our VMware NSX environment to a fresh new version from 3.x to 4.x. After the upgrade, the first login we encountered many NSX Corfu certificates as expired from the alarm screen as can Read more…
Introduction The other day I was doing an NSX(T) upgrade from 3.2.3.1 to 4.1.1.0 on one of our environments. Everything went alright until the actual first stage in which you start upgrading your NSX infrastructure. As you know the first Read more…
Introduction Earlier this week I have had the opportunity to listen to the new enhancements announced today for the VMware products VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), vSphere and NSX! In this blogpost I will highlight the most important parts that apply Read more…
Introduction The other day we received a fresh new warning in VMware Cloud Director (VCD) while editing a VM to add more disk space. The request failed with an java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException: Index 0 out of bounds for length 0 message. In Read more…
When building a new VMware SDDC it takes some time before you can hand over management duties to an existing team. In the meantime you want to get notified when something breaks using tools which are already in place. In this blog post I will explain how to use the adapter instance in Aria Operations so you can easily filter notifications.
Introduction The other day we updated our UsageMeter environment to 4.8. We have a couple and all of them including this appliance worked fine after the upgrade. After a couple of days I received a message that the Usage Meter Read more…
Introduction The other day we upgraded our VMware Cloud Director (VCD) environment. The upgrade itself did not go so well for us, but I will discuss this in another blogpost. However this blogpost is for a specific bug which came Read more…
Introduction In our NSX(T) environment I’ve had to replace certificates loads of times. This is actually quite easy if you know how (which I will explain in this post). However, this time after replacing all the NSX Manager certificates (Cluster Read more…
Introduction In my previous blogpost where we deleted stuck vSAN objects due to a vSAN bug in the remediation workflow I mentioned the use of the ‘objtool’ to delete objects from the vSAN filesystem. In that specific blogpost I had Read more…
Recently I upgraded a vSphere 7 environment to version 8. This left me with a vCLM baseline which was no longer applicable to any of the ESXi hosts. However I could not delete it. The option to detach the baseline from the cluster was grayed out. The baseline itself shows it was intended to install a host extension for NSX-V. And the option to remove the baseline entirely is also grayed out. This post describes the underlying issue and how to resolve it.