NSX
Refresh NSX-T site information
Recently I upgraded a NSX-T multisite deployment. Unfortunately following the upgrade on one of the local sites it failed to display that site’s status on the system overview page.
NSX
Replace Edge Transport nodes using the NSX Manager API
NSX-T makes it very easy to deploy virtual edge transport nodes using the NSX manager. Simply fill in a couple of variables and it will make sure a new node is created by importing an OVF file on your vSphere environment. But once deployed not all settings can be changed. This is where the NSX manager API can be a useful tool.
ESXi
How to quickly find NSX-V KB85070 affected ESXi hosts
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…
VMware
How to fix the new VMware Cloud Director 10.4.x bug that crashes your cells
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…
ESXi
How to fix VUM not updating ESXi hosts due to old UserVars advanced settings
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…
Troubleshooting
How to fix VMware Cloud Director 10.4.x bug that slingshots VM’s across clusters
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…
vCenter
How to fix a vCenter 6.7 to 7.0 U3h upgrade failure
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 Read more…
Troubleshooting
How to resolve the VMware Cloud Director 10.4.x console issues after upgrading
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 Read more…
VMware
Error while editing a VMware Cloud Director vAPP with networks
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 Read more…
ESXi
Using pcap filters with pktcap-uw on ESXi
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.