Let’s talk about VCF a little bit. A recent VCF implementation conversation inspired this post. You received your hardware to deploy your VCF Management Domain or Workload Domain. Exciting times after a long wait! While you are preparing the host by installing the devices you need and the supported firmware is possible that your physical […]
Fix Issue: “Deleting or renaming a vDS uplink port fails” error
Welcome to another Baking Clouds post. You are maybe here because you are experiencing the error Deleting or renaming a vDS uplink port fails with: Uplink name is in use by the teaming policy defined at DVPort as documented in this KB article on vCenter Server 5.5 or above. It is unusual to experience this […]
Easy Fix for VEEAM error “Retrieving certificate for s3.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud:443 Failed”
In this new blog post we are going to cover a simple fix for the following scenario VEEAM Backup and Replication Server, VEEAM Gateway server behind squid proxy Adding an IBM S3 object storage repository fails with the following error: Log %programdata%\Veeam\Backup\Satellites\BackupServer\User\Agent.PublicCloud.Satellite.log Root cause The network configuration does not allow direct internet access for Veeam […]
Fix: Unable to register plugin vRealize Operations Tenant App for VMware Cloud Director
Hello readers!! You might come across the following issue after you upgrade the vRealize Tenant App spend hours trying to figure out how to fix it! Hopefully, this problem is resolved in the next release or a KB in VMware soon, in the meantime here are the steps on how to register the plugin in […]
Quick Fix for Zerto unable to send billing data
The intent of this post is to help you resolve a problem that can happen to you when applying a permanent license key from Zerto and see the following error message: “ZVM is disconnected from the VRAs as usage information for billing purposes was not sent for 54 days. To ensure replication, resolve this issue. […]
Fix Error: “cannot upgrade until ZVM has finished all his clean-up tasks”
Symptoms When running ZVM VMware installer package “7.5 Update 4”, the following error appears when starts the pre-checks: “you cannot upgrade until zvm has finished all his clean-up tasks” You check the GUI and follow all the steps described in ZVM Upgrade Best Practices, but the problem persists. Cause This error indicates stale undo records […]
How to effortless delete 1000’s audit events in vCloud Director DB
During recent vCloud Director cell upgrades and database migrations it was noticed the size of DB increased drastically and the amount of time needed to migrate a DB from SQL Server database to PostgreSQL database specially during creation and data migration of TABLE “audit_event” Normally I let this process run unattended until it completes minutes later […]
vRealize Operations vCloud Director adapter timed out
Few days ago we updated vCloud Director content pack for vRealize Operations Manager 8.0.1 from version 5.2 to version 5.3. After the upgrade vCloud Adapters stopped collecting data.The following message was displayed when Testing the connection: vCloud Adapter logs /storage/log/vcops/log/adapters/VCOpsAdapter 2020-05-20 12:45:12,919 WARN Collector worker thread 2 com.integrien.adapter3.alive.AliveAdapter.checkForRemovedNodeMaster – Skipping check for missing nodes, SuiteAPI […]
Cannot login as admin after upgrade vRealize Operations to version 8.0
After completing the upgrade from vRealize Operations 7.5 to version 8.0 we were unable to login as admin Symptoms Log in to the admin or Product UI of VMware vRealize Operations Manager 8 You see the error: The credentials are correct and logging into the node (in my case I only have a single node) […]
Inconsistencies between VOMA versions on vSphere 6.5 and vSphere 6.7 – What version to trust?
Experiencing metadata corruptions in VMFS volumes is a troubleshooting scenario that consumes a lot of time specially if you can’t access some VMs files anymore and your applications are experiencing outage. Hopefully you have your backups up to date and tested to restore your machines but in some cases you may need to recover those […]