This post documents the experience in using ansible module for nsx-t https://github.com/vmware/ansible-for-nsxt Prerequisites The following steps were undertaken in a control VM where the ansible playbook will be executed. Install ovftool I’m using ubuntu 18.04 and have downloaded ovftool.bundle from VMware. After uploading the file, issue sh VMware-ovftool-4.3.0-7948156-lin.x86_64.bundle pip3 install --upgrade
The following post describes how to update vRealize Automation from 8.0.x to 8.1 manually. Most of the guides that tackles the topic assumes you are directly connected to the internet to pull the upgrade binaries. Unfortunately, this is not the case on some environments where the solution is deployed in an airgapped setup. With that said, here’s the high-level steps on how to go about bring up the solution to 8
TKG Series [TKG Series – Part 1] VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid introduction and installation [TKG Series – Part 2] Install Kubernetes Cluster(s) using Tanzu Kubernetes Grid [TKG Series – Part 3] Creating custom plan in Tanzu Kubernetes Grid For this post, I’ll be showing how to create custom plan that can be used when provisioning kubernetes clusters using tkg. Plan is used to define specifics of the provisio
TKG Series [TKG Series – Part 1] VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid introduction and installation [TKG Series – Part 2] Install Kubernetes Cluster(s) using Tanzu Kubernetes Grid [TKG Series – Part 3] Creating custom plan in Tanzu Kubernetes Grid For my next post, we will now be installing kubernetes clusters using Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG). With properly configured tkg, the command is straightforward:. Execu
TKG Series [TKG Series – Part 1] VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid introduction and installation [TKG Series – Part 2] Install Kubernetes Cluster(s) using Tanzu Kubernetes Grid [TKG Series – Part 3] Creating custom plan in Tanzu Kubernetes Grid This is going to be a long post as I will try to keep it as detailed as possible. Quick Introduction VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG for short) is the rebranded PKS
This post is a long overdue tutorial on how to setup govc. What is govc? It’s a cli utilizing govmomi, a go library used to interact with vSphere API. Why use govc? It’s fast and way better to use for automation tasks. Installation: Download release binary here: https://github.com/vmware/govmomi/releases Depending on the platform, decompress: gzip -d govc_linux_amd64.gz Flag it as executable chmod +x govc
Encountered issue after a power failure which cause all the nodes of the identity manager cluster to reboot. Based on the error, i’m getting the following: Error 500: org.hibernate.exception.GenericJDBCException: could not prepare statement Bookmark this KB as this explains how the internal Postgres cluster works – basically, if all the nodes failed – you need to manully bring up the VIP of the post
I was with a GSS Support today troubleshooting NSX issue on one of my engagement. He did a packet trace from ESXi hosts to see if there is traffic leaving/ entering the physical NIC which really nice. This will be helpful in establishing if the issue is somewhere in the environment or not. Here’s the command Receive: pktcap-uw –uplink vmnic0 –capture UplinkRcvKernel -o -| tcpdump-uw -nr – Send
Unable to validate the provided access credentials: Failed to validate credentials. Error: java.security.cert.CertificateException: No subject alternative DNS name matching <nsx> found. Cloud account: null Task: /provisioning/endpoint-tasks/d3f06b7ab13aec7559c1458d6fa20 Got the above error when trying to add NSX-V cloud-account to vRealize Automation 8. Issue: it’s because the self-signed certificate of the
When doing an upgrade via LCM of vRA from 8.0 to 8.0.1, you might encounter this error: Disk space on root partition (/) on VM Disk 1 (/dev/sda4) should have atleast 20 GB of free disk space. This is because initial installation of vRA only has small disk not enough for upgrade. The issue is documented in the Known Issue for vRA 8.0.1 here To resolve, WITHOUT POWERING OFF your Virtual Appliance, go to each of the vRA