VMware vCloud Director – Change SSL certificates
The following procedure is a self-reminder of How-To replace the certificates of a VMware vCloud Director deployment. Prepare informations Here is a configuration sample for a single cell deployment. Change settings according to your needs: If you are using multi-cells deployment, I stronlgy recommend you to extend …
Read MoreSimple restart of health broker service 1service vrhb-service on # ensure that service is activated 2service vrhb-service restart Reset health broker service data In case of non-working health management page (error message displayed or white/missing content), and after having tested the previous troubleshoot method it …
Read MoreThe time required to fetch information on a third party deployment platform (like Azure virtual machine's current and available public address) through vRealize Orchestrator can take too long and raise SocketTimeout errors. The process times out in vRealize Automation with this error message: "The connection to …
Read MoreIf you are familiar with the vRealize Automation installation process, you probably already know that it is possible to download some usefull files from the "installers" page. You can access to the "installers" with two URLs: https://vrava.domain/installers (most commun URL) or …
Read MoreAs you could notice (if you don't use an RSS tool to read this blog): there is a new UI theme based on the Clarity Design System. To compare before/after: This decision was strongly motivated by the new HTML5-powered interface of vCSA 6.5 & 6.7. This new VMware vCenter UI is also based (as many of others VMware's …
Read MoreVMware vRealize orchestrator package diff python tool
I have recently published a draft tool to provide a table-formated diff of two vRealize Orchestrator packages. Project is available on GitHub project and will evolve in futur to support more package item's types and to provide better information about differences. Sample of output Installation Requirements: Python 3 …
Read MoreAnsible is a well known software to automates software provisioning, configuration management, and application deployment. In concrete terms, it's possible to manage infrastructure deployment and configuration during life cycle from sets of configuration files. In the following post, I will try to explain how to use it …
Read MoreIn a previous post, I've already talk about an issue occuring in a lab environment with vCSA 6.5u0 and PSC appliance : VCSA or PSC appliance won't boot after hard shutdown. As the issue became more regular with time, I tried to figure out the root cause of those events. As system's logs reports SCSI timeout on write …
Read MoreWhen you install a VMware vCloud Director instance, it comes with an embedded JRE (Java Runtime Environment). For example, vCloud Director includes JRE 1.8.0_121 : 1$VCLOUD_HOME/jre/bin/java -version 2java version "1.8.0_121" 3Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_121-b13) 4Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server …
Read MoreVMware introduced in version 5.5 of vCloud Director, a feature to externaly expose catalogs and if necessary, to subscribe to an externaly exposed one. This is useful to synchronize catalog between two (or more) vCloud Director instances. Basic usage The two following sections are extracts from the VMware documentation …
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