Introduction We recently stood up a fresh vSphere 8.0 Update 3 environment. Since it was a clean start, we decided we did not want to drag the old Host Profiles feature along with us anymore, and instead go with the newer vSphere Configuration Profiles (VCP). In vSphere 8 Update 3 Read more
Introduction Once in a while you’ll need to decommission an Organization in VMware Cloud Director (VCD), for example when a tenant leaves. Recently while doing this for a tenant, let’s call it CustomerA, the delete of the Org and its Org VDC reported success without any errors. Afterwards though, both Read more
Introduction Once in a while you will have to remove a Resource Pool (vSphere Cluster in vCenter Server) in VMware Cloud Director (VCD). In this specific case we are using Elastic Provider VDC’s (pVDC’s). This means that a single pVDC can hold several physical backed vSphere Clusters on the back-end Read more
Fixing relocate taskt timeouts in VCD was never easier. Read the blog to find out.
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 be seen below: You can see these alarms on the 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 step in upgrading your NSX Fabric is the step in 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 this blogpost I will discuss how to fix this issue. Read more
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 consumption data is no longer being uploaded to the VMware 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 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