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Updating the vCenter Service accounts for vRealize products:
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LCM(LifeCycle Manager) Log into lifecycle manager https://lcmFQDN/vrlcm Click on Datacentre>Managed vCenter Server> Edit icon> Update the credentials there. vRops: Log in to vRops as an admin Browse to Administration> Solutions >Cloud accounts > Click on the vCenter edit Click on the edit icon for the credentials Update the password in…
Read MorevRops 8, Exclude Specific host
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Login to VRops, Click on Administration>Licencing (under management) > edit the product licensing group. Click next on the “select license keys tab”, in the “add members” tab, scroll to the bottom and look for “objects always to exclude” Expand “vCenter adapter” Expand “host system” and select the host that you…
Read MoreDeploying VRA, Setting up MSSQL server errors out with “MS DTC on the IaaS database server is not configured correctly for network access”
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Running through the installation and installation of MSDTC by following the instructions on KB https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/59422 did not help in order to resolve this, I checked the component services on both IIAS and the DB server GO to Start and then search for component services Component services> Computers> My Computer> Distributed…
Read Moreubuntu 18.04 getting VMware guest customization to work
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ubuntu 18.x is by default shipped with cloud-init/netplan that breaks when customizing the VM using vCenter custom spec. In this blog, I’ll show you how to get the customization to work with vCenter. On a fresh install of ubuntu 18.04, create a bash script with the below contents (mine was…
Read Moreany host/VM tasks performed on vCenter errors with ““A general system error occurred: Connection refused: The remote service is not running, OR is overloaded, OR a firewall is rejecting connections””
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logs from the above snippet, it appears the connection to vcenter port: 8190 was being rejected. as per Vmware docs, port 8190 is used by profile driven storage so we take a look at profile-driven storage log: at this stage, the service refused to start pointing to an invalid entry…
Read MorePowerCLi: remove orphaned VM’s from vCenter inventory
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For instructions on how to connect to VMware PowerCLI, Follow the post here: Run the below to get the list of orphaned VM Run the below to remove orphaned VM
Read MorePowerCli- Script to reconfigure the default alarm email address on the vCenter server.
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Using the GUI to set up email alerts for the default alarm might be time-consuming. In this post I will show you how to use VMware PowerCLi to automate re-configuring the existing, Default alarms with the notification email address. You will need VMware PowerCLi to run through this. if you…
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