February 2021 – Nick's Container on the cloud ;)

upgrade vRA 8.2 to 8.3

February 13, 2021 - Nithin Titta

Upgrade LCM Log in to LCM> Lifecycle operations> Settings> System upgrade Create snapshot Once snapshot is done, Click on Check for upgrade, vRLCM will reboot as a part of the upgrade. Wait patiently… (go have a coffee) On successfull upgrade, we should see : Add vRA package repository to LCM…

SaltStack-Config-8.3.0.0 Default GUI user password?

February 9, 2021 - Nithin Titta

misc

user: root when deployed via LCM:Password: same as appliance password as configured on LCM When deployed via ovf(vCenter)password: salt

Getting started with salt stack and VMware (vCenter)

February 4, 2021April 14, 2021 - Nithin Titta

Saltstack

Salt stack (salt open) is an opensource utility that can be used to orchestrate vCenter tasks. In this blog, I will guide you on how to install, and set a basic clone operation with salt stack. Install: pre-requisite: Linux VM (cent os or ubuntu), I’ve used Ubuntu 20.4 for the…