William Lam’s blog inspired this article, the idea is to walk you through setting up a vSphere Content library, adding items to the library, and removing a library item when it’s no longer required using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Object Storage. Before jumping into the steps let’s cover What is a Content Library and some […]
NSX-T 3.2 Add NSX Advanced Load Balancer Error Verification failed
Starting with NSX version 3.2 AVI load balancer integrates with NSX allowing users to deploy and configure AVI using NSX-T UI or API. As seen in NSX-T 3.2 release notes AVI is called NSX Advanced Load Balancer and is integrated into NSX-T, the NSX-T Native Load Balancer is going away. Excerpt of load balancer release […]
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 […]
Backup vCenter Server Appliance using OCI File System Service
VMware continues supporting multi-cloud strategy and partnering with major cloud service providers, including Oracle VMware Cloud Solution (OCVS).This article will cover one of the many cases of integrating a cloud-native service and the VMware solution: “Backup the vCenter Server Appliance running on OCVS using the OCI File System Service“. Let’s begin! Prerequisites To add an […]
NSX-T Migration Coordinator Troubleshooting Guide – Chapter 1
We will keep it short and direct to the point. You are here because you have intentions to use NSX-T migration coordinator for your NSX-V to NSX-T migration project for a smooth and easy migration. Or at least that is what we all expect right? Guess what. There are many reasons migration coordinator service can […]
VMware Cloud Provider Lifecycle Manager 1.2 Released!
VMware recently released a new version of VMware Cloud Provider Lifecycle Manager. For those unfamiliar with this product, we can say that it provides a comprehensive solution to implement, update, configure and manage VMware Cloud Provider products in an automated way from one place. VMware Cloud Provider Lifecycle Manager provides REST APIs to facilitate tasks […]
vRealize Operations Tenant App 8.6 API reference
This post is about vRealize Operations Tenant App API documentation reference to help you know what can be done with the API Tenant APP 8.6 API can be integrated with other solutions and but APIs are not documented in code.vmware.com and vRealize Operations API reference is for version 6.7 API Reference Index for VMware products […]
vRealize Operations Manager 8.6 API reference
Hello!! We found that vROPs 8.6 APIs are not yet documented in code.vmware.com, the latest available version is of vRealize Operations API reference version 6.7. In this blog post, we are including the swagger information. Enjoy!! If you want to know how to how to use the REST API resources, authenticate, and construct REST API […]
Simplified backup and restore in VMware Cloud Director 10.3.1
VMware recently released VMware Cloud Director 10.3.1, which includes new features and resolves known issues. The full list is included in the release notes. In this post, we are showing the new simplified management of the VMware Cloud Director system to backup and restore introduced in the new appliance management UI and API that allows the automation […]
Fix: vROPs Tenant App for vCD Failed to install updates error
Hello readers!! You might come across the following issue when trying to upgrade the vRealize Tenant App for vCD, there is no much information in the official documentation on how to troubleshoot this product, but no worries! this post will help you! Problem In our scenario, we are using the offline iso file vROps-Tenant-App-for-vCD-2.6.1.48550-18326914-updaterepo.iso to […]