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vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager license error "Exception while loading DLF"

I was just trying to add a new license in to my vRSLCM (vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager) v8.0.1 instance when I hit upon the following error: Exception while loading DLF. Check logs for more detail. Not the most helpful of messages! Of course, the first rule of technology

osx

Trusted SSL certificates in OSX 10.15+ and iOS 13+

I deployed a new vSphere VCSA for my homelab in December 2019 (last month). By default these come with a self-signed SSL certificate that's valid for 10 years. Of course I typically replace these with a signed certificate but it's not always the first thing that I do. What I

ESXi

Homelab vSphere 6.7u3 experience

About 18 months ago I wrote a post on my experience upgrading my homelab from vSphere 6.5 to vSphere 6.7 [https://michaelpoore.com/2018/07/my-vsphere-6-7-homelab-upgrade-experience/]. Since that time it has had a few rebuilds and reconfigurations, been off for several months, been idle, been busy and generally

AWS

Migrating from Wordpress to Hugo Part 4: Securing the Site with SSL

> I originally drafted this in June 2018. Following on from Sam McGeown's recent migration to Hugo [https://www.definit.co.uk/2019/04/goodbye-wordpress-hello-hugo/], I thought I'd finally publish this in case it's useful for anyone rather than sitting on it until I complete the process! Why SSL? It's only

AWS

Migrating from Wordpress to Hugo Part 3: Hosted Zones in Route53

> I originally drafted this in June 2018. Following on from Sam McGeown's recent migration to Hugo [https://www.definit.co.uk/2019/04/goodbye-wordpress-hello-hugo/], I thought I'd finally publish this in case it's useful for anyone rather than sitting on it until I complete the process! It's Always DNS When

AWS

Migrating from Wordpress to Hugo Part 2: Basic Tooling

> I originally drafted this in June 2018. Following on from Sam McGeown's recent migration to Hugo [https://www.definit.co.uk/2019/04/goodbye-wordpress-hello-hugo/], I thought I'd finally publish this in case it's useful for anyone rather than sitting on it until I complete the process! Summary of Tools Used

AWS

Migrating from Wordpress to Hugo Part 1: Overview

> I originally drafted this in June 2018. Following on from Sam McGeown's recent migration to Hugo [https://www.definit.co.uk/2019/04/goodbye-wordpress-hello-hugo/], I thought I'd finally publish this in case it's useful for anyone rather than sitting on it until I complete the process! What, When and Why?

vExpert

vRO 7.6 XaaS form support clarification

When vRealize Orchestrator 7.6 became generally available last week (and related to the simultaneous availability of vRealize Automation 7.6), an eagle-eyed VMware Partner spotted a statement in the release notes [https://docs.vmware.com/en/vRealize-Orchestrator/7.6/rn/VMware-vRealize-Orchestrator-76-Release-Notes.html] under the Feature and Support Notice section.

iis

vRA installation failure caused by .NET trust levels in IIS

I've been meaning to post this for about a year. I'm doing it now just in case it's still relevant and useful for anyone. I was working with a customer getting a vRA (7.3.1) PoC environment deployed for them so that they could run some penetration tests against

vExpert

What's new in vRA 7.6

Today sees the General Availability of vRealize Automation 7.6, VMware's Cloud Management solution. I get excited by new releases as the product is maturing and new features and integrations are added each time. This release is no different. Below are some of the changes you can expect to find.

Certification

VMware Exams Retiring August 30th 2019

A number of VMware exams will be retired on August 30th 2019. The table below shows the exams to be retired and the exams taking their place: Retiring ExamReplacement Exam2V0-620 / vSphere 6 Foundations Exam2V0-01.19 / vSphere 6.7 Foundations Exam2V0-602 / vSphere 6.5 Foundations Exam2V0-01.19 / vSphere 6.7 Foundations

Cloud

Introducing VMware Cloud Automation Services (CAS)

My focus on a day-to-day basis for most of the last five years has been on cloud automation and orchestration, more specifically with VMware vRealize Automation (vRA) and VMware vRealize Orchestrator (vRO). I've worked with a variety of customers in different verticals (government, finance, service provider) to help them design

HomeLab

My vSphere 6.7 homelab upgrade experience

vSphere 6.7 was released several months ago, and I've been meaning to upgrade my homelab for a while now. vSphere 6.5 has been pretty rock-solid, but it's time for me to keep up with the Joneses. This post covers my upgrade process and experiences. vCenter Migration My original

VMware

Addressing errors when using vRA 7.4 Guest Agent

Having upgraded my vRA instance in my HomeLab to 7.4 not long after it GA'd, I recently decided to create some nice, new templates as well. You know, latest patches, hardware, basic config etc. I won't bore you with exactly how I installed Windows, patched it or configured it.

backup

Unitrends announces VM Backup Essentials (vBE)

If you're working for an Enterprise with your workloads based purely on VMware vSphere, then there's a new launch from Unitrends that you may be interested in looking at for your virtual backup / business continuity solution that I have learned about. vBE (short for VM Backup Essentials),converges enterprise-grade backup

Linux

Automated NIC names in Linux on VMware vSphere

A colleague of mine was working with a customer recently on some changes to their automated VM provisioning process (they're not vRA customers… yet). He got stuck trying to get around a particular challenge with the automatic naming of network interfaces in certain Linux distributions. The customer in question is

Certification

VCAP6 exams retiring in September 2018

If you're looking at taking one of the VMware Advanced Professional exams listed below, you might want to get your skates on as they're being retired at the end of September: * VCAP6 – Data Centre Virtualization Design (VCAP6-DCV Design) * VCAP6 – Cloud Management and Automation Design (VCAP6-CMA Design) * VCAP6 – Desktop and Mobility

powercli

Documenting vCenter Privileges with PowerCLI

A customer that I'm working with at present asked this week if the minimum privileges required for vRA to access a vSphere Endpoint could be documented. As someone who isn't a fan of unnecessary wheel re-invention, my initial response was to direct them to the relevant VMware documentation (vRA 7.

Cohesity

vRetreat London 2018 and Zerto Virtual Replication 6.0

I was lucky enough last year to be invited to the inaugural UK vRetreat, organised by fellow vExpert Patrick Redknap [https://twitter.com/PatrickRedknap] . If you've not encountered a vRetreat before, or are wondering what it is, it's an event with a small delegation of bloggers invited to pick apart

education

Extensibility course in vRA / vRO (Feb 2018)

A new vRA / vRO Extensibility course is scheduled to be held in the UK in February 2018. It will provide detailed information on how to leverage the power of vRealize Automation and vRealize Orchestrator. I should point out that it's a beta course, so it may not be 100% polished

HomeLab

Root password expired on vCenter VCSA 6.5

I thought I'd update my homelab's primary vCenter to the latest and greatest (6.5 update 1d), when I encountered an issue with the root password. The update showed up ok in the appliance's VAMI interface and I selected to install it but an error quickly showed up: [/content/images/

CTOA

New Year, New CTOA - Congratulations

[/content/images/wordpress/2018/01/CTO-Ambassadors_avatar_1461093858-96x96.jpeg] VMware's Office of the CTO (OCTO) [https://octo.vmware.com] runs an annual programme internally to appoint a limited number of outstanding individuals as CTO Ambassadors (CTOA). Broadly, the role of an ambassador is to help ensure a tight collaboration between

powercli

Automating vSphere VM disk zeroing with vRA7 and vRO

A long time ago, on a project far back in time, the team that I was part of was given a requirement to zero the disks of VMs before they were deleted by vRA / vRO (or vCAC and vCO as they were called back then). One of my colleagues on

vRA

How to change the vRA 7.2 "All Services" icon using vRO

This post was inspired by Ryan Kelly's recent post of a similar title in which he revealed how to change the “All Services” icon [http://www.vmtocloud.com/how-to-change-the-vra-7-2-all-services-icon/] in the vRA 7.2 Catalog tab. Shortly after seeing that, I noticed that Ricky El-Qasem had also posted on the

ipam

Some vRO IP address actions

I just wanted to take this opportunity to share a few vRO actions from my library that I've recently tidied up. Some started life as scriptable tasks in other workflows but it made sense to strip those bits out and put them in to discreet actions to enable better re-use.