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 …
Introduction Sometimes you can find some issues in older environment while upgrading that you haven’t seen before. This blogpost is about one that I’ve never seen before, but luckily is very easy to fix.We were upgrading the our environment from 6.7 U3x to 7.0 U3h. The upgrade eventually failed on …
Introduction Just a couple of months ago during the summer VMware Cloud Director (VCD) released a brand new version in the form of VCD 10.4 and now in december 10.4.1! Both of the releases feel like a major release with the big change in the Console Proxy loadbalancing technique, Photon …
Introduction Lately I have been into the seperation of permissions in one of our VMware Cloud Director (VCD) environments. This means that instead of giving everybody a Provider Administrator account, I want to provide a form of Role Based Access Control (RBAC) and provide users with the correct amount of …
A feature that was introduced in vSphere 7 is the ability to use pcap (tcpdump) filters with pktcap-uw. One of the use cases where this can be useful is filtering for TCP control bits.
Have you ever found yourself wondering when a certain ESXi server was installed? In this case VMware GSS has your back. Check out KB 2144905 to find a simple esxcli command that dissects the hosts UUID to give you the installation date of that specific host. But what if you want to audit an entire cluster? This is where Powershell can help you out.
Lately I’ve been interacting a lot with REST APIs. I found that testing an API from within an application can sometimes cause some issues. For instance, when setting up a webhook notification instance using vROPS you only have a simple test button. But what if the application you want to access requires authentication and all you want to test is if you are able to access a URL via a HTTP proxy server?
Introduction If you can remember I’ve made a blogpost quite recently about the issues that got up when we updated one of our Workspace ONE Access instances to 21.08. Our entire ElastichSearch engine eventually got in read-only mode which prevented us from using the product like we should be able …
Introduction Recently we were in a situation in which we upgraded one of our Workspace ONE Access (formerly known as VMware Identity Manager) environments to the at that moment newest version 21.08 (Release notes here). All in all the upgrade went fine, however it seems that after the upgrade we …
The way in which you can customize notifications in vROPS has significantly improved in version 8.6. You now have the ability to use payload templates that can include all sorts of vROPS properties. This way you can make your alerts much more meaningful.
