certificate of FQDN has expired when attempting to add a product into the usage meter, specifically when using Sectigo signed certificates.

When attempting to add a product to usage meter, the product migth fail to add if it has a certificate signed by sectigo Cause: https://support.sectigo.com/articles/Knowledge/Sectigo-AddTrust-External-CA-Root-Expiring-May-30-2020 Resolution: Import root certificates to the appliance java keystone. Steps:* take a snapshot of the appliance* ssh to usage meter appliance* change user to root * create or import the […]

Photon Os, .local domains do not resolve

VMware appliance running on photon os has mdns setup, basically due to this, certain domain extensions like .local will not be forwarded to the DNS servers for DNS resolution. Detailed information on these top-level domains can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicast_DNS Should your setup have .local domains then you must edit /etc/systemd/resolved.conf and add your domain […]

vRA Deployments Fail with IPAM Provider Error: {“code”:3000,”message”:”The extensible attributes for search are not specified. (Dynamic Script Module name : findFixedAddressesByEA#27)”} (Dynamic Script Module name : throwIpamError#28)

After vRA was upgraded from 7.3 to 7.6 and the infoblox plugin to the latest, Deployments fail with the below message: After investigation from Infoblox, we found the Extensible attribute “VMware IPaddress” was missing on infoblox Infoblox Documentation: https://docs.infoblox.com/download/attachments/8945695/Infoblox_IPAM_Plugin_for_VMware_vRA_User%27s_Guide.pdf?version=1&modificationDate=1606831097478&api=v2 In a second scenario, Looks like my DHCP range was fully allocated. we root caused this […]

vRA 8.x GitLab Integration

Create the GitLab integration in vRealize Automation: 1. Navigate to Infrastructure > Connections > Integrations. 2. Click + ADD INTEGRATION. 3. Select GitLab. 4. Enter the Name and Description. 5. Enter the server URL. 6. Enter the access token. 7. Click VALIDATE. 8. Click ADD. The Access Token is copied from the GitLab console. Preparing […]

Install Rancher and set up a Kubernetes cluster

Install docker: install Rancher in a docker container (single node) with persistent data. We’ll map 80 of the container to 8080 of the docker host and 443 of the container to 8443 of the external host, I’m doing this since I will be using the above ports for different containers. check the status of the […]