Introduction I have another interesting VMware Cloud Director (VCD) issue for everybody. On one of our VCD 10.1.x environments we were having issues editing and/or cloning roles outside of the default “System Administrator” role. The issue manifested itself and was reproducable by doing the following: Open up the VCD interface …
Introduction The other week I upgraded both of our production and test VMware Cloud Director (VCD) environments from 10.0.x to 10.2.1, the current latest available version. The upgrade went fine without any issues for production, the test environment suffered a failed node but more on that in a later blogpost. …
The problem In my homelab I’m using a server which contains both Gigabit and 10GbE NICs. When I first deployed ESXi version 7.0U1 the list of devices looked like this.
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Name PCI Device Driver Admin Status Link Status Speed Duplex MAC Address MTU Description ------ ------------ -------- ------------ ----------- ----- ------ ----------------- ---- ----------- vmnic0 0000:02:00.0 nmlx4_en Up Down 0 Half xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx 1500 Mellanox Technologies MT27500 Family [ConnectX-3] vmnic1 0000:03:00.0 igbn Up Up 1000 Full xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx 2018 Intel Corporation I211 Gigabit Network Connection vmnic2 0000:04:00.0 igbn Up Down 0 Half xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx 2018 Intel Corporation I211 Gigabit Network Connection |
In this system the Mellanox isn’t connected to a switch (yet). So I didn’t notice this straight away. But …
Today I have a rather small blogpost for you guys. I noticed that one of my vCloud Usage Meter appliances, still running on an ancient 3.6.1 version build 7359407, had some difficulties collecting data for one of the connected vCenter Servers. I got loads of e-mail messages from the Usage …
Introduction Recently I’ve discovered a nifty little issue in one of our environments. This environment consists out of VMware Cloud Director (VCD) in combination with VMware vSphere 6.7 hosts and Veeam v10. In this environment we make use of the VCD Veeam UI Plugin so that customers can use the …
Introduction Today we have yet another certificate blogpost. This is the fourth blogpost on this in the last couple of months. I’ve recently created a new environment and added custom CA signed vCenter Server certificates through the vSphere Client (UI). In a recent blogpost I had some issues with this …
A very quick write up today. I’ve recently upgraded one of my VMware Cloud Director environments from 10.0.0.1 to 10.2.1. Once updated with the procedures that are out there (I will post a blogpost for this later on) I found myself with the following message after logging into the VMware …
Introduction The other day I received a ticket from a customer that mentioned that they had several VM’s with the same VM UUID. They noticed this while executing some checks on their VM’s. As you can figure out yourselfes, you should not want any duplicate UUID’s in your environment. So …
The problem Today we have another fascinating error with one of our tenants in our Veeam Backup for Office 365 environment. This tenant and its jobs have been around for months, and nothing actually changed on our side, or the tenant side. But all of a sudden our customer wasn’t …
During an issue I had with my lab environment while using the ‘cmsso-util’ command to join two of my lab vCenters to the same SSO domain, I also had another issue which I will talk about in this blog post. Once I fixed the previous issue, which was due to …
