vRSLCM is Winner!! – Deploy vRealize Operations in Cloud Foundation In my previous blogs, I had covered my experience and procedure to stretch a MGMT workload domain on VCF, in this blog I will share information on vRealize Operations Manager (vROPS) deployment & configuration using vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager (vRSLCM) on VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) platform. What Does vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager (vRSLCM) offer? VMware vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager comes free with VMware vRealize Suite in all three editions. It is designed to simplify the deployment and on-going management of the vRealize product portfolio. It delivers fast time-to value, improved user experience and greater operational efficiency to vRealize Suite customers.…

Dark Site VCF!! Manually downloading the VMware Cloud Foundation Software’s & Update Bundle In this blog I am going to cover how to manually download an LCM bundle. LCM update bundle must be available on SDDC Manager before you can apply the update. When an update bundle is available, a notification is displayed on the Workload Domain page in the update/Patches tab. LCM polls the VMware depot to access update bundles. If you do not have internet connectivity in your Cloud Foundation system, you can use the Bundle Transfer utility to manually the bundles from the depot on your local computer and then upload them to SDDC Manager. The utility identifies applicable bundles based…

Here is the procedure to fix login error. Brand new fresh install of vSphere ESXi 6.7U1B encountered login issue. It reported incorrect User Name or Password. To fix the issue, you will need access to the ESXi console. Once you login to the console, access the System Customization menu by hitting F2. Select Troubleshooting Options. In Troubleshooting Mode Option, select ‘restart management agent’ option. Confirm restart management agent now. Proceed to log in again into the ESXi. The issue shall be resolved now. Hope you enjoyed this post, I’d be very grateful if you’d help to share it on Social Media. Thank you!     DISCLAIMER: The views expressed on…

vSAN load testing using HCI Bench 2.0 This blog will showcase how to run performance test for vSAN using HCI Bench load testing tool. In vSAN storage each compute server is configured to contribute for the storage capacity thus performance test should run by invoking many test VMs and each VM must access multiple VMDK disks using vSAN. Such test patter will simulate a busy cluster. To fulfill such load testing pattern and requirements VMware releases a performance testing automation tool called as HCI Bench. It uses VDbench testing tool in backend. HCI Bench instruct and automate use of VDbench. Yu will only access the HCI bench UI to define…

vRA 7.x IAAS encountered “Server Error 401 – Unauthorized: Access is denied due to invalid credentials” In my experience vRA is extremely stable component from the vRealize Suite product portfolio. Perhaps when I received below error that self explain something not right regards to the credentials. Thats Easy!! However when noticed no issues with the credentials, it was purely misleading error message. The real reason behind this error was something else. Thats the HARD part.  Where to start??   Since the vRA Infrastructure Tab reported error, decided to start looking into the IaaS configuration and server status. Noticed ‘RepositoryAppPool’ service was stopped in IaaS Application Pools. Tried to start the…