When troubleshooting a minion deployment failure, I would recommend hashing out the salt part of the blueprint and run this as a day2 task. This would help save significant deployment time and help focuss on the minion deployment issue alone. So in my scenario, I Finished my deployment and run…
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SaltConfig multi-node scripted/automated Deployment Part-2
salt-config_install Saltstack
Topology Prerequisites: you must have a working salt-master and minions installed on the Redis/Postgres and the RAAS instance. Refer SaltConfig Multi-Node scripted Deployment Part-1 Dowload SaltConfig automated installer .gz from https://customerconnect.vmware.com/downloads/details?downloadGroup=VRA-SSC-862&productId=1206&rPId=80829 Extract and copy the files to the salt-master. In my case, I have placed it in the /root dir…
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salt-config_install Saltstack
Topology: (master-minion communication) OS: RHEL7.9/Centos7 For the above topology, you will need 4 machines, we will be using the scripted installer to install RAAS, REDIS and postgres for us. the VM’s I am using: note: My RHEL machine are already registered with RHEL subscription manager. we start by updating the…
Read Moresaltconfig 8.6.1 + vRA 8.6.1 Deploying VM’s with salsify driver fails and time’s out
Saltstack
error: investigation: On salt-config > jobs , look for the deploy.minion task. This was a success in my case. Re-ran the deployment, once the machine is provisioned and customization is successful (has IP when viewing VM from the vCenter view), open the console and I took a look at /etc/salt/minion…
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misc Saltstack vRA8
SaltConfig must be running version 8.5 and must be deployed via LCM. If vRA is running on self-signed/local-CA/LCM-CA certificates the saltstack UI will not load and you will see similar symptoms: Specifically, a blank page when logging on to salt UI with account/info api returning 500 Logs: To resolve this,…
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