Replace the VMware Cloud Director Certificates in 10.3 with a PFX or PEM
In VMware Cloud Director 10.3 VMware changed from using the Java keystore to a direct import/management with the cell-management-tool. This is a reminder to myself for the steps involved to change the certificate on a VMware Cloud Director cell.
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The story of the new vCD cell and the incorrect keystore password
The starting situation explained: we have a VMware cloud director instance with three cell servers. On primary and two standby cells, from a database replication perspective. Cells were running on version 10.2.0 and I wanted to upgrade vCD to the latest version which is 10.3.2a.
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VMware Cloud on AWS got updated to v1.16
Good news we have a new version on VMConAWS - m16 is here!
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Why a migration via VMware HCX from on-prem to vmconaws might fail
VMware HCX error message when migrating a VM to VMConAWS, related to the virtual Hardware version.
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VMC - Back to the Basics #1 : Create a VPC and a VMware SDDC on AWS
Before you can deploy a SDDC in VMware Cloud on AWS we need to have either an existing AWS VPC or create a new one. This blog post will cover the creation of a custom VPC as well as a VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC.
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Migrating to VMware Cloud on AWS with HCX from two on-premises datacenters
My customer is currently migrating vSphere workloads to VMware Cloud on AWS.
There are many aspects and processes which are running in the background, this is the what, how, why of the migration from two on-premises datacenters to the cloud with HCX.
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Horizon View Upgrade 8.3 (2106)
After updating Horizon View to 8.3, the Web browser access doesn't work anymore. Here's how to fix it.
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How to request Let’s Encrypt certificates on the NSX Advanced Load Balancer
Lately, I have been doing quite some work on VMware vSphere with Tanzu. A prerequisite to configure vSphere with Tanzu is a load balancer of some sort. Currently the following are supported, HAProxy, the NSX-T integrated load balancer or the NSX Advanced Load Balancer (ALB). (Support for the NSX ALB was added with the release of vSphere 7 U1.)
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vRealize Orchestrator Release 8.4
Some time ago I wrote an article about vRO 8.0 and first steps. Now with version 8.4 I decided to write a second article, checking if anything changed what I pointed out in my last article, or if there are some cool new features or new glimpses.
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vRealize Log Insight upgrade gotchas
I recently had to upgrade two log insight instances for a customer from 4.x to 8.x. This was a manual process in two phases (you have to upgrade to 4.8 first).
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Install older vRealize Automation version (8.0.x)
Recently, I had to install an older version of vRealize Automation, being more precisely, version 8.0.1, which is still downloadable from the Homepage of VMware and is officially still supported. Why, that’s a different story.
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Register vRO 8.2 with vCD 10.2
I decided to write an article, because starting with the official documentation, I found, that the documentation has just been copied from a previous version and is not matching VMware Cloud Director anymore.
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