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 […]
cannot verify certificate chain. when attempting to add vCenter to usage meter 4.x
bump up logs to trace and re-adding shows the below: when looking at the certificate of the venter Cause: Incorrect ordering of the certificates. if you look closely on the certificate chain: Certificate 0 is for the vcenter server and was issued by RapidSSL. Certificate 1 is the DigiCert root certificate. And certificate 2 is […]
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 […]
HomeLab Storage Upgrade!!
Old blue drives on my dual xeon build!! Red Drives on Netgear nas
vRA 7.6 HP upgrade fails RPM already installed
vRA 7.6 HP upgrade fails with Resolution Run and then re-try the upgrade. if the problem persists then and then re-run the upgrade
Deepin linux 20, snap packages do not show up on launcher
create a symlnk of the snap package to the deepin desktop config dir below example to make it executable globally
vRo 7/8 Plugin on vCenter 6.7 missing/do not load after upgrade
There is no GA plugin available for the HTML5 client. This is planed to be included on the 8.2 release. You may use the beta client as a workaround, However this needs manual installation.. Please ensure that you take a snapshot before you run through the below steps. cleanup: Delete/move the contents of the below […]
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 […]