Renewing NSX-T LocalManager certificates
Expiring certificates occur every so often. It is best to have the replaced or renewed before the expiration date. In our NSX-T environment, the LocalManager, mp-cluster and tomcat certificates are…
CLI
Properly restarting the NSX-T Management Cluster
Sometimes it is necessary to restart all nodes in the NSX-T Management cluster. In this specific case, because a T0 Gateway showed a Failed status through a false-positive error. The…
Upgrade vSAN Disk Format Using RVC
On a regular basis, the ESXi hypervisors in your environment are updated. When updating to major updates (e.g. ESXi 8.0U1), you have the option to update your vSAN On-Disk Format…
Remove stuck VAMI backup jobs in five steps
Some months ago, a VAMI vCenter backup job was not finished successfully; the job was canceled manually. Unfortunately, the canceling itself failed and the backup process was stuck at 95%.…
Secure Boot on ESXi
What is Secure Boot Secure Boot is a security feature to prevent malicious software from loading when your system boots. With Secure Boot in use, a machine refuses to load…
Restore vSAN Skyline Health Check Alerts through RVC
Have you ever wanted to restore the previously silenced Skyline Health Checks, but you could not do this the normal way, meaning through the vSphere GUI? The alternate method is…
VCF 4.5.0 precheck fails with failed rotation workflows
Very recently, we required a vCenter Update in our VCF 4.5.0 environment. In this case, we were using the AsyncPatch Tool for VMSA-2023-0014 One of the steps required is to…
VCF – Using the Async Patch Tool
Has the installation of patches through Cloud Foundation always been straightforward for you? …. Well, that’s not always the case. This post guides you through the process of downloading these…
VCF 4.5.0 Change DNS or NTP Servers in NSX-T
VCF 4.5.0 Change DNS or NTP Servers in NSX-T Manager In addition to our post in this link, our VCF 4.5.0 SDDC Manager started mentioning something is out of the…
PhotonOS Configuring Cronjobs
While using VMware’s Photon OS more regularly, some basic activities might be required, one such topic is the creation of cronjobs : creating and managing cronjobs, schedules Using cronjobs to…
NSX-T CheatSheet
In this section some basic CLI commands for nsxcli will be provided. These can be used for troubleshooting. Please take into account the NSX-T Data Center Administration Guide for NSX-T…
NSX-T Management service has failed
After backup, the NSX-T Management (SSH) service has failed. According to VMware Support, this can be due to the NSX-T backup that seems to disable the NSX-T Management Service after…