Today I need to change my DNS settings in my homelab, so I need to change the DNS in most of my implementations and on my VCF. In this How to change DNS in VMware SDDC Manager with API, I will explain how to do this quickly with API that will change the DNS in [...]
In this VMware SDDC Manager Workload Domain greyed out a quick tip I will explain how to fix this issue. When you try to do any task in your SDDC Manager, like create a new Workload Domain, or add a Commission Hosts, etc., all the options are greyed out and with the message "Disable due [...]
In this second HCX - How to create Network and Compute Profiles about HCX Series blog post, I will address the Network Profiles. How to create them, and what the best practices and requirements are. In the previous HCX blog post, How to install-pairing HCX Manager and Connector I installed the HCX Cloud Manager and [...]
I don't work with HCX(abbreviation for Hybrid Cloud Extension) for some time, installing the infrastructure at least. Recently I only used it in some VMs and Apps migrations. So it was time to build some HCX infrastructure lab, and in this How to install-pairing HCX Manager and Connector, I will explain how to do this. [...]
I had a power outage, and my VCF was down. When I tried to power it on, all the vSAN Cluster was gone, and no VMs available. Only 2 of the 4 ESXi hosts cluster were configured correctly with the vSAN Cluster Datastore. So no vCenter, SDDC Manager, or NSX to power on the VCF. [...]
In this second blog post about VCF and errors, I discuss this error, VCF error commission hosts: Failed to connect to the host - Certificate Error. When we try to add hosts to VCF with commission hosts, I get the error: Failed to connect to the host. Ensure that the host is reachable, it has [...]
I will publish some VMware Cloud Foundation(VCF) articles in the following weeks. Mainly will be errors that we can get when doing some tasks in the VCF and how to fix them. In this VCF error commission hosts: Unable to get Host Fingerprint, I will explain this error and how to fix it. When I [...]
When your VMware Cloud Foundation(VCF) SDDC Manager Workload Domain is getting full, you need to add disks to your VCF through ESXi vSAN hosts. Most of the changes you need to do in your vCenter should be done through the SDDC Manager. Not the case when you need physically add extra disks to your ESXi [...]
We know that some systems cannot be connected to the internet. In this How to update your vSAN HCL DB without internet, I will show how we can update our vSAN HCL DB without an internet connection. In my case, a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) doesn't directly connect to the internet, but I still need [...]
