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vCenter HA – Failed to get management network information – Solved
I tried to configure vCenter HA in my lab environment. I use vCenter 7 U1 so it is the latest version. I added new network interface into VM and configured it on WAMI page, but when I pushed the “SET UP VCENTER HA” button I got error message. You can see this message in the…
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Upgrade from vSAN 7.0 File Service to U1
My previous blog post I presented how you can enable vSAN file service on vSAN 7.0. In this article I’m going to show the process of upgrade from 7.0 to 7.0 U1, where you are able to use SMB shares. I find the official document about this topic but I felt it is not so…
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How to configure vSAN 7.0 File Serice
In this blog post I’m going to show you how can enable vSAN 7.0 File Service. This article doesn’t cover of vCenter, vSphere ESXi and vSAN upgrade process, just show you how can configure one of new capability of vSAN 7.0 I don’t want to rob your time let’s jump in. Open vCenter server and…
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vCenter 6.7 External PSC converge to embedded with Linked Mode step by step guide
vSphere 7 U1 in the corner and as we know external PSC mode is depricated. If you use external PSC configuration with linked mode you have to switch to internal PSC mode. https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2020/03/vsphere-7-vcenter-server-7-migration-upgrades.html Fortunatly VMware introduced converge tool (in 6.7 U1) to help us migrate external PSC to embedded. It is a GUI solution so…
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Delete vSAN datastore after VCSA install fail
I want to redeploy my lab environment because I have to use same vCenter version like in production system. During the VCSA server installation process I got error message and I have to delete VCSA. Nothing special until I realised I intalled VCSA on vSAN datastore. As you know during VCSA install you can select…
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vRealize Operations Manager 8.x Application Monitoring explain
In the beginning, I want to tell you that the Application Monitoring and Service Discovery two different and independent features in vRealize Operations Manager. Application Monitoring collects metrics from 20 different applications (Eg.: ActiveDirectory, Exchange, MS-SQL… and so on) while Service Discovery discover services in VM / OS. If you enable the “Business Application Discovery…
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Change vROPs IPs
In this article I’m going to show how you can change vRealize Operations Manager’s IP address. I followed this VMware KB during ip changes. https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2127442 In this scenario I’m going to change Master (172.24.0.182) and Master replica (172.24.0.183) nodes IPs. I want to change this two IP to 172.24.0.140 and 172.24.0.141. This two nodes ware…
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vROPs Telegraf Agent install
As you know from VMware vRealize Operations Manager 7.5 the application monitoring agent has been changed from End Point Operations Agent to Telegraf. Earlier admins needs to deploy End Point Operations Agents manual or use some central / remote deploy solutions. Upgrade was a nightmare becouse in versions 6.x have no manage upgrade process. Some…
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vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.1 Deploy
Who read regulary my blog knows my main focus recently vRealize Operations Manager. Because of I’m working on vROps deployment project at field. I have worked with vROps since version 6.1 so it is a long relationship. Of course I’m working with vSphere and vSAN as well. I want to make next steps and open…
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VMware vCenter upgrade from 6.7 to 7.0
I would like to share my experience about vCenter upgrade from 6.7 to 7.0. I was part of vSphere private bate tests like last couple of vSphere version. In my Lab environment I have upgraded vCenter. Upgrades or migrations from vSphere 6.0 or earlier releases to vSphere 7.0 are not supported. Upgrades or migrations from…
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Cisco UCS B200 M3 vSphere ESXi 6.0 upgrade to 6.7 custom image
I want to upgrade our Cisco UCS B200 M3 environment from vSphere (ESXi) 6.0 to 6.7 by VMware Update Manager. We used to Cisco custom ISO image (Vmware-ESXi-6.0.0-3620759-Custom-Cisco-6.0.2.1) so I downloaded the latest release and uploaded to Update Manager. After a few minutes later I received an error message. Fine lets look what is the…
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vRealize Operations Manager 8 CA (Continuous Availability)
Requiments (minimum the following): 1 Master node, 1 Data node 1 Witness (new node type) I recommend 2-2 nodes to each domain in production. !!! Before you start it, I warn you the change is offline process !!! About existing environment: I used to High Availabilty feature of vRealize Operations Manager so I had one…
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vRealize Operations Manager 8.x upgrade is hanging on step 4 of 9
I destroyed my vRealize Operation lab environment successfully last night. So I have to rebuld it from zero. I installed an earlier version of vRalize, it was 7.5. Why? First time I tried deploy vROPs 8.0.1 but when I finshed with the new cluster wizard the admin page could’t loaded. I’m going to investigate the…
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vRealize Operation Endpoint Agent Unable to register error
When you install a vRealize Operation Endpoint Agent and then check status of Agent You will see similar message on screen: “Agent not yet setup” You can check status of agent if you browse by CMD (run as administrator) the agent’s folder (default on Windows it is “C:\ep-agent\”) and go “bin” folder. There are two…
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vRealize Operation Manager 7.5 – What’s new
Today (2019.06.07) was the second VMUG Hungary meeting in this year. I’m really proud of that I was part of one of the speakers in this event. My presentation main story was vRealize 7.5 – What’s new, but middle of it i changed the direction from new features to automatization. I show how you can…
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