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 up on our environment after the upgrade. The bug manifested 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 and Nodes) we had one expired certificate left, the one 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 issues removing the objects, even while using the ‘force’ parameter. Read more
Introduction The other day we were finding us in the position to completely re-install a couple of vSphere ESXi hosts which were once part of a larger VMware vSAN cluster environment. Usually this does not take that long to do since nowadays the cluster wizard inside the vCenter Server does Read more
Introduction Recently I have been upgrading one of my test environments from NSX 3.1.2 to 3.2.1 and have come across a couple of issues. This time it seems like there is one Tier 1 GW in my environment that is not connecting to both Edge Nodes in a Edge Cluster. Read more
Introduction Recently I have been upgrading one of my test NSX-T labs. In this particular lab environment the scenario was upgrading NSX-T 3.1.2.1.0 to 3.2.3.1.0. NSX-T environments are upgraded in phases and the first (actually second) phase is upgrading the NSX Edge Clusters and NSX Edges inside these clusters. Doing Read more
Introduction If you have worked or are working with NSX for vSphere (NSX-V) like me you are probably aware of the known bug that is present on some olders versions of NSX-V. Even the VMware Interoperability Matrix has a remark on this on all versions. The bug I am talking Read more
Introduction We are back at it again with another blogpost for VMware Cloud Director (VCD)! This week we were working on a new issue in our environment, that was again a new not yet discovered bug in the VCD 10.4.x branch. This time we found out that if editing existing Read more
Introduction Today we have something different from the ever growing VMware Cloud Director (VCD) blogposts on our blog! The other day I was upgrading a couple of ESXi hosts on one of our environments. This however did not work how it should, the ESXi host would not stage or remediate Read more
Introduction This week I have been troubleshooting a fresh issue that I came across in our environment. We have recently upgraded one of our VMware Cloud Director (VCD) environments to version 10.4.0. This version of VCD brings loads of new enhancements that we loved and wanted to use after the Read more