Category: vSphere 6

we are talking about vRA 7.x and Approval Request raised via Approval Policy when a blueprint deployment request is raised. let’s say you have a blueprint, on request of which there’s an approval policy triggers which is sending approval requst to corresponding approvers. How long are you willing to wait before it gets responded? few… Continue reading vRA 7.x and Approval Request Timeout

A relatively simple looking process, but at times, it might make you wonder in which order I should be doing this. Lately while talking with a customer, I realized that in vRO documentation, hints of this process are given but not really in the form of step by step instructions. I then went ahead and… Continue reading How to change vRO 7.x Active-Active cluster to Active-StandBy?

as my previous post about collecting vRO log bundle using command line This post addresses step by step instructions for collecting log bundle from vRA infra. ==> Take log bundle from vRA Appliance only login into vRA appliance using SSH Client cd /tmp run command ‘vcac-support’ this will create a tgz file use WinSCP to… Continue reading How to collect log bundle of vRA using command line

Lately I was working with a customer who requested that they need vRealize Orchestrator workflow execution token and state to be fetched from logs, since they have vRealize LogInsight in place which they wanted to make use of it. This is when I looked in the server.log file and found following bits. in this case… Continue reading vRO workflow execution tokens and state from Server.log

Replace vRealize Business Standard 7.0 Self-Signed SSL Certificates. Business Management tab in vRA reports SSLHandshakeException. Business Management Tab in vRA reporting error Javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: java.security.cert.CertificateException: Untrusted Certificate Chain vRA VAMI starts to report following services status as Blank vcbm-service (com.vmware.vcbm.vcbm) pricing-api (com.vmware.vcbm.pricing) Did this in a vRA 7.1 – vRB 7.0 based simple deployment Where I… Continue reading Replace vRealize Business Standard 7 Self Signed Certificates

working with vRA 7.1 created a blueprint with Minimum Lease as 10 Days and left Maximum lease as empty. created a deployment out of it with 10 days lease and now I have a need to change the lease of this same deployment to Never Expire. Action entitlement is there to do this and I… Continue reading Change Lease to Never Expire in vRA 7.1

This came as a requirement from one of the clients. They are using vRA 6.2.2 where they have migrated few Deployments (vSphere VMs) from one Reservation to Other and ended up in a situation that old Reservation based Network profile which was having IP Range configured from where these set of VMs were holding IPs… Continue reading Unallocate IP from IP Range in vRA 6.2.x

Attend vForum Online 19th April, 2016 where featured speakers are VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger and VMware CTO Chris Wolf, talking SDDC, End User Computing and the Hybrid cloud. There will be 8 Hands-On-Labs to test-drive a variety of VMware Solutions. Certain unique product demos by VMware system engineers and unlimited access to eBooks, tech-tips and… Continue reading VMware vForum Online 2016

Let’s say we have vCSA 6.0 appliance in place, where some firewall rules are created. Managing this is easy using vSphere Web Client -> Administration -> System Configuration -> Nodes -> <your vCSA node> -> Manage -> Settings -> Firewall (List of rules would appear like following screenshot) Click on ‘Edit’ button Where there are… Continue reading Delete Firewall rules in VCSA 6.0