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2026  12

May  1

License a Standalone ESX 9.1 Host Using the New License Server Appliance (No VCF Operations Required)

May 15, 2026 · Cosmin Trif

April  2

Installing and Configuring Cloudbase-Init on Windows for VCF Automation Guest Customization

April 16, 2026 · Cosmin Trif

Querying Aria Operations for Logs API by Hostname – A Complete Guide

April 2, 2026 · Cosmin Trif

March  6

Custom Rightsizing Guardrails in VCF Operations 9 with Super Metrics

March 31, 2026 · Cosmin Trif

Importing a vCenter 8.x as a Workload Domain into VCF 9

March 31, 2026 · Cosmin Trif

Using 90 Days of Usage for Rightsizing Recommendations in VCF Operations 9

March 30, 2026 · Cosmin Trif

Configuring VCF Operations 9 Capacity Calculations to Consider 90 Days of Usage

March 30, 2026 · Cosmin Trif

How I Migrated My WordPress Blog to Hugo on Cloudflare Workers (And Why You Should Too)

March 24, 2026 · Cosmin

Bulk Delete Alerts in VCF Operations (formerly know as Aria Operations)

March 17, 2026 · Cosmin Trif

February  2

License a Standalone ESX 9.0 Host with a Private License File (When the Trial Expired and vCenter Won’t Boot)

February 23, 2026 · Cosmin Trif

Unstuck Your VCF Lab: A Script to Bypass Compatibility & Interoperability Checks

February 9, 2026 · Cosmin Trif

January  1

Salt vs. BigFix: The Speed of Light vs. The Heavyweight Champion

January 27, 2026 · Cosmin Trif

2025  47

November  3

Troubleshooting notification plugins in VCF Operations

November 26, 2025 · Cosmin Trif

Deploying an External VCF Operations Orchestrator 9 Appliance

November 21, 2025 · Cosmin Trif

Upgrading VCF Operations to 9.0.1 Using a .PAK File

November 12, 2025 · Cosmin Trif

October  4

Upgrading VCF 9.0 SDDC Manager to 9.0.1: A Step-by-Step Guide

October 9, 2025 · Cosmin Trif

Deploying VCF Fleet Management 9 from OVA: A Step-by-Step Guide

October 9, 2025 · Cosmin Trif

Upgrading VCF 9.0.0 Fleet Management to 9.0.1: A Step-by-Step Guide

October 9, 2025 · Cosmin Trif

Deploying VCF Operations 9 from OVA: A Step-by-Step Guide

October 3, 2025 · Cosmin Trif

September  1

Fixing “PostgreSQL won’t start after reboot” on VCF Operations Fleet Management 9.0.1 — and automating it

September 30, 2025 · Cosmin Trif

August  1

WordPress to Cloudflare Workers: how I statically mirrored my entire site (and kept search & lightbox!)

August 22, 2025 · Cosmin Trif

July  1

Suppress ESXi Host Alerts in VCF Operations 9 When a Host Enters Maintenance Mode

July 30, 2025 · Cosmin Trif

June  9

Upgrading Aria Operations to 9.0 via Aria Suite Lifecycle

June 20, 2025 · Cosmin Trif

Applying VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.18 Patch 2

June 20, 2025 · Cosmin Trif

Upgrading VCF 5.2.1 to VCF 9 Step by Step

June 20, 2025 · Cosmin Trif

Patching//Upgrading ESXi 8 to ESXi 9 via esxcli

June 20, 2025 · Cosmin Trif

Upgrading Aria Operations to 9.0 Using a .PAK File

June 19, 2025 · Cosmin Trif

Deploy a VCF 9 Instance in an new VCF fleet

June 18, 2025 · Cosmin Trif

Configuring the VMware Cloud Foundation Installer appliance Step-by-step instructions

June 18, 2025 · Cosmin Trif

Deploying the VMware Cloud Foundation Installer appliance Step-by-step instructions

June 17, 2025 · Cosmin Trif

Fixing “Received Too Large SFTP Packet” When Connecting to vCenter Using WinSCP

June 11, 2025 · Cosmin Trif

May  1

Replacing the VMware Identity Manager (vIDM) Certificate using VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle 8.18

May 8, 2025 · Cosmin Trif

April  1

Step-by-Step Guide to Deploying Salt Open Source

April 9, 2025 · Cosmin Trif

March  3

How to Add Custom Disks with Drive Letters and Labels in Aria Automation (VMware by Broadcom)

March 25, 2025 · Cosmin Trif

How to Fix Excessive ApiGwServicePrincipal Logging in vCenter

March 6, 2025 · Cosmin Trif

Understanding VMSA-2025-0004 and Protecting Your VMware Environment

March 4, 2025 · Cosmin Trif

February  17

Upgrading Aria Operations to 8.18.3 Using a .PAK File

February 28, 2025 · Cosmin Trif

Error LCMVRNICONFIG90115 in VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager

February 27, 2025 · Cosmin Trif

SaltStack Config vs Ansible Tower: A Comprehensive Comparison of Two Leading Configuration Management Tools

February 27, 2025 · Cosmin Trif

Understanding the Differences Between SaltStack and Terraform

February 27, 2025 · Cosmin Trif

Comparing VMware vSAN ESA and Traditional Storage Solutions

February 27, 2025 · Cosmin Trif

Tracking Licensed Assets in VMware Aria Automation

February 27, 2025 · Cosmin Trif

Deploying SaltStack Config 8.17 via Lifecycle Manager in an Aria Automation Environment

February 27, 2025 · Cosmin Trif

SaltStack vs Ansible: Which Open-Source Configuration Management Tool is Best for Your Needs?

February 27, 2025 · Cosmin Trif

How to Deploy SaltStack Config 8.17 Standalone Using VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager

February 27, 2025 · Cosmin Trif

Single Node vSAN

February 27, 2025 · Cosmin Trif

Upgrading Aria Operations for Networks to 6.14 via upgrade bundle

February 4, 2025 · Cosmin Trif

Upgrading Aria Operations for Networks to 6.14 via Aria Suite Lifecycle

February 4, 2025 · Cosmin Trif

Deploying VMware Aria Operations for Networks via Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager

February 4, 2025 · Cosmin Trif

Upgrading Aria Operations for Logs to 8.18.3 via Aria Suite Lifecycle

February 4, 2025 · Cosmin Trif

Upgrading Aria Operations for Logs to 8.18.3 Using a .PAK File

February 4, 2025 · Cosmin Trif

Upgrading Aria Operations to 8.18.3 via Aria Suite Lifecycle

February 4, 2025 · Cosmin Trif

Aria Suite Lifecycle 8.18 Product Support Pack upgrade (PSPACK5)

February 4, 2025 · Cosmin Trif

January  6

Setting User SSH Keys in NSX

January 28, 2025 · Cosmin Trif

Upgrading Aria Operations to 8.18.2 Using a .PAK File

January 16, 2025 · Cosmin Trif

Upgrading Aria Automation to 8.18.1 Patch 1

January 16, 2025 · Cosmin Trif

Step-by-Step Guide: Upgrading Aria Operations for Logs to 8.18.1 Using a .PAK File

January 16, 2025 · Cosmin Trif

Upgrading Aria Operations for Logs to 8.18.1 via VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle

January 16, 2025 · Cosmin Trif

Aria Suite Lifecycle 8.18 Product Support Pack (PSPACK4) upgrade - manual version

January 16, 2025 · Cosmin Trif

2024  50

December  1

Connecting a VI Workload Domain to VMware Aria Operations for Logs in VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)

December 7, 2024 · Cosmin Trif

November  1

Patching//Upgrading ESXi 8 to ESXi8U3b via esxcli

November 9, 2024 · Cosmin Trif

October  8

Deploying VMware Aria Operations for Logs in a VCF 5.2.1 Environment: Step-by-Step Guide

October 18, 2024 · Cosmin Trif

Deploying VMware Aria Automation in a VCF 5.2.1 Environment: Step-by-Step Guide

October 18, 2024 · Cosmin Trif

Deploying VMware Aria Operations 8.18 in a VCF 5.2.1 Environment: Step-by-Step Guide

October 16, 2024 · Cosmin Trif

Deploying vIDM Using Aria Lifecycle Manager in a VCF 5.2.1 Environment: Step-by-Step Guide

October 15, 2024 · Cosmin Trif

Aria Suite Lifecycle 8.18 Product Support Pack (PSPACK) upgrade - manual version

October 15, 2024 · Cosmin Trif

Deploying the VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle 8.18 using VCF 5.2.1

October 15, 2024 · Cosmin Trif

Upgrading VCF 5.x to VCF 5.2.1 Step by Step

October 14, 2024 · Cosmin Trif

Cleaning up VCF bundles

October 14, 2024 · Cosmin Trif

September  2

Changing the IP Address of Aria Automation 8.x Node

September 5, 2024 · Cosmin Trif

Step-by-Step Guide for Changing the IP Address in Workspace ONE Access 3.3.7

September 5, 2024 · Cosmin Trif

July  8

Deploying the Aria Suite Lifecycle 8.18 using VCF 5.2

July 28, 2024 · Cosmin Trif

Upgrading VMware Aria Automation to 8.18

July 28, 2024 · Cosmin Trif

Upgrading Aria Automation to 8.18 via CLI: A Step-by-Step Guide

July 28, 2024 · Cosmin Trif

Upgrading Aria Automation via CLI: A Step-by-Step Guide

July 28, 2024 · Cosmin Trif

vCLS not starting with Failed - Feature ‘cpuid.mwait’ was absent, but must be present error

July 28, 2024 · Cosmin Trif

VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle upgrade to 8.18

July 28, 2024 · Cosmin Trif

Upgrading VCF 5.x to VCF 5.2 Step by Step

July 27, 2024 · Cosmin Trif

Downloading specific VCF bundles via CLI

July 25, 2024 · Cosmin Trif

June  5

Upgrading Aria Operations for Logs to 8.16.1 via VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle

June 26, 2024 · Cosmin Trif

Upgrading Aria Operations to 8.17.2 via Aria Suite Lifecycle

June 20, 2024 · Cosmin Trif

Aria Suite Lifecycle Product Support Pack (PSPACK) upgrade - manual version

June 19, 2024 · Cosmin Trif

Upgrading Aria Operations to 8.17.1 via Aria Suite Lifecycle

June 19, 2024 · Cosmin Trif

Aria Suite Lifecycle Product Support Pack (PSPACK) upgrade

June 19, 2024 · Cosmin Trif

May  5

Creating a Custom Role in vCenter for Aria for Logs (vRealize Log Insight): A Step-by-Step Guide

May 13, 2024 · Cosmin Trif

Creating a Custom Role in vCenter for Aria Automation: A Step-by-Step Guide

May 13, 2024 · Cosmin Trif

Creating a Custom Role in vCenter for Aria Operations Actions

May 13, 2024 · Cosmin Trif

Creating a Custom Role in vCenter for Aria Operations Monitoring

May 13, 2024 · Cosmin Trif

Setting User SSH Keys in NSX: A Guide for Custom Labels and Types

May 1, 2024 · Cosmin Trif

April  6

Automating Legacy Boot Option Checks Across ESXi Hosts with PowerShell and Plink

April 11, 2024 · Cosmin Trif

Deploying the Aria Suite Lifecycle using VCF 5

April 7, 2024 · Cosmin Trif

How to Enable SSH on the NSX appliance

April 6, 2024 · Cosmin Trif

Properly cleaning up VCF bundles

April 6, 2024 · Cosmin Trif

Upgrading VCF 5.x to VCF 5.1.1 Step by Step

April 6, 2024 · Cosmin Trif

VCF depot build numbers

April 1, 2024 · Cosmin Trif

March  11

Error Code: LCMVSSC10013

March 25, 2024 · Cosmin Trif

Upgrading VMware Aria Automation Config to 8.16.2

March 25, 2024 · Cosmin Trif

Upgrading VMware Aria Automation to 8.16.2

March 22, 2024 · Cosmin Trif

VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle Product Support Pack (PSPAK) Upgrade

March 22, 2024 · Cosmin Trif

Enhancing vCenter Server Firewall Management with Ansible

March 21, 2024 · Cosmin Trif

Streamlining vCenter Server Firewall Management with SaltStack Config

March 21, 2024 · Cosmin Trif

Automating vCenter Server Firewall Configuration with PowerShell: A Guide for Scaling to Multiple Environments

March 21, 2024 · Cosmin Trif

Mastering the /v1/credentials API in SDDC Manager for Enhanced Security Management

March 16, 2024 · Cosmin Trif

Stopping a Running Task in SDDC Manager: A Step-by-Step Guide

March 16, 2024 · Cosmin Trif

VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle upgrade to 8.16

March 13, 2024 · Cosmin Trif

VCF depot build numbers

March 10, 2024 · Cosmin Trif

February  2

Upgrading Aria Automation without Lifecycle Manager: A Step-by-Step Guide

February 14, 2024 · Cosmin Trif

Navigating Alerts, Symptoms, and Notifications in VMware Aria Operations

February 6, 2024 · Cosmin Trif

January  1

Deploying Aria Automation 8.16 using the Easy Installer

January 31, 2024 · Cosmin Trif

2023  59

December  4

Upgrading VMware Aria Automation to 8.14.1

December 5, 2023 · Cosmin Trif

Upgrading Aria Operations for Logs to 8.14.1 via VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle

December 5, 2023 · Cosmin Trif

Upgrading VMware Aria Automation Config to 8.14.1

December 5, 2023 · Cosmin Trif

VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle Product Support Pack (PSPAK) Upgrade

December 4, 2023 · Cosmin Trif

October  5

Upgrading VMware Aria Automation to 8.14

October 26, 2023 · Cosmin Trif

Upgrading VMware Aria Automation Config to 8.14

October 25, 2023 · Cosmin Trif

Upgrading VMware Aria Operations to 8.14 via VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle

October 25, 2023 · Cosmin Trif

Upgrading Aria Operations for Logs to 8.14 via VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle

October 25, 2023 · Cosmin Trif

Upgrading VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle to 8.14

October 25, 2023 · Cosmin Trif

July  13

Replacing the idps reporting Corfu certificate in NSX

July 7, 2023 · Cosmin Trif

Replacing the cluster manager Corfu certificate in NSX

July 7, 2023 · Cosmin Trif

Replacing the Monitoring Corfu certificate in NSX

July 7, 2023 · Cosmin Trif

Replacing the CSM Corfu certificate in NSX

July 7, 2023 · Cosmin Trif

Replacing the GM Corfu certificate in NSX

July 7, 2023 · Cosmin Trif

Replacing the MP Corfu certificate in NSX

July 7, 2023 · Cosmin Trif

Replacing the CCP Corfu certificate in NSX

July 7, 2023 · Cosmin Trif

Replacing the AR Corfu certificate in NSX

July 7, 2023 · Cosmin Trif

Certificate delete failed: Certificate cannot be deleted because it is used by 1 MP node

July 7, 2023 · Cosmin Trif

Replacing the Corfu API certificate in NSX

July 7, 2023 · Cosmin Trif

Replacing the LocalManager certificate in NSX

July 6, 2023 · Cosmin Trif

Simplifying NSX Edge Removal in VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Environment

July 5, 2023 · Cosmin Trif

Downloading specific VCF bundles via CLI

July 5, 2023 · Cosmin Trif

June  3

Upgrading VCF 4.3.x to VCF 5 Step by Step

June 27, 2023 · Cosmin Trif

Upgrading vRSLCM (vRealize Lifecycle Manager) to 8.12

June 20, 2023 · Cosmin Trif

Upgrading SSC (SaltStack Config) to 8.12.1 using vRSLCM

June 20, 2023 · Cosmin Trif

May  1

VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle Product Support Pack (PSPAK) Upgrade

May 19, 2023 · Cosmin Trif

April  1

Install/Upgrade ESXi 8.0 on unsupported hardware.

April 26, 2023 · Cosmin Trif

March  11

VMware Aria Operations Compliance Pack for HIPAA

March 30, 2023 · Cosmin Trif

SaltStack Config vs. Ansible Tower: A Comparison of Two Powerful Configuration Management Solutions

March 23, 2023 · Cosmin Trif

SaltStack Config vs. Ansible Open Source: A Technical Comparison

March 23, 2023 · Cosmin Trif

A Step-by-Step Guide to Convert Native Cloud Virtual Machines to On-Prem vSphere with VMware Converter

March 20, 2023 · Cosmin Trif

Overview of deploying a 3 tier app in vRA 8, Terraform, and Ansible

March 7, 2023 · Cosmin Trif

Deploying a 3 tier app in GCP from Ansible

March 7, 2023 · Cosmin Trif

Deploying a 3 tier app in GCP from Terraform

March 7, 2023 · Cosmin Trif

Deploying a 3 tier app in GCP from vRA

March 7, 2023 · Cosmin Trif

How to forcibly delete an NSX-T 3 Segment

March 3, 2023 · Cosmin Trif

Removing NSX stale packages from ESXi host

March 3, 2023 · Cosmin Trif

Configure NSX-T to use vIDM as authentication

March 3, 2023 · Cosmin Trif

February  15

Differences between SaltStack and Terraform

February 24, 2023 · Cosmin Trif

Upgrading SSC (SaltStack Config) to 8.11.1 using vRSLCM

February 22, 2023 · Cosmin Trif

Comparing vRealize Automation to Chef

February 15, 2023 · Cosmin Trif

Comparing vRealize Automation to Chef

February 15, 2023 · Cosmin Trif

Comparing vRealize Automation to Jenkins

February 15, 2023 · Cosmin Trif

SaltStack Config vs Terraform: A Comparison of Two Leading Infrastructure Management Tools

February 7, 2023 · Cosmin Trif

Comparing vROps Workload Optimizations with CWOM

February 7, 2023 · Cosmin Trif

Benefits of Using vROps Workload Optimizations Over Regular DRS

February 7, 2023 · Cosmin Trif

Upgrading vIDM (VMware Identity Manager ) to 3.3.7 via vRSLCM

February 3, 2023 · Cosmin Trif

Deploying vRA 8.11 using the Easy Installer

February 3, 2023 · Cosmin Trif

vRSLCM (vRealize Lifecycle Manager) Product Support Pack

February 3, 2023 · Cosmin Trif

Upgrading VCF 4.4.0 to 4.5 Step by Step

February 3, 2023 · Cosmin Trif

Why Choose vRealize Automation (vRA) over Ansible

February 1, 2023 · Cosmin Trif

Why Choose VMware vRealize Automation Over Puppet

February 1, 2023 · Cosmin Trif

Why Choose VMware vRealize Automation (vRA) over Terraform

February 1, 2023 · Cosmin Trif

January  6

Why organizations should choose vRealize Automation as their automation solution

January 31, 2023 · Cosmin Trif

SaltStack: The Ultimate Tool for Windows Patch Management

January 31, 2023 · Cosmin Trif

vROPs tagging and workload optimization

January 30, 2023 · Cosmin Trif

vROPs DRS requirements across multiple data centers

January 30, 2023 · Cosmin Trif

DRS Rules in vROPs and vCenter

January 30, 2023 · Cosmin Trif

Enabling Basic authentication in VMware Orchestrator

January 29, 2023 · Cosmin Trif

2022  47

November  2

SDDC SaltStack Modules - vRA edition

November 15, 2022 · Cosmin Trif

SDDC SaltStack Modules - vSphere edition

November 7, 2022 · Cosmin Trif

October  2

Upgrading SSC (SaltStack Config) to 8.10 using vRSLCM

October 13, 2022 · Cosmin Trif

Upgrading vRSLCM (vRealize Lifecycle Manager) to 8.10

October 13, 2022 · Cosmin Trif

September  7

Upgrading SSC (SaltStack Config) to 8.9.1 using vRSLCM

September 10, 2022 · Cosmin Trif

Upgrading vRA (vRealize Automation) to 8.9.1

September 10, 2022 · Cosmin Trif

Upgrading SSC (SaltStack Config) to 8.9 using vRSLCM

September 9, 2022 · Cosmin Trif

Upgrading vRA (vRealize Automation) to 8.9.0

September 9, 2022 · Cosmin Trif

vRSLCM (vRealize Lifecycle Manager) Product Support Pack

September 8, 2022 · Cosmin Trif

Upgrading SSC (SaltStack Config) to 8.9 using vRSLCM

September 8, 2022 · Cosmin Trif

vRSLCM (vRealize Lifecycle Manager) Product Support Pack

September 8, 2022 · Cosmin Trif

August  1

Why Automate Virtual Infrastructure, Why Do it Now, and Why Do it with vRealize Automation

August 1, 2022 · Cosmin Trif

July  7

Deploying an AVS cluster on Azure

July 20, 2022 · Cosmin Trif

SSC 8.8 Authentication failed: no Authorization header

July 17, 2022 · Cosmin Trif

Patching//Upgrading ESXi 7 to ESXi7U1 via esxcli

July 17, 2022 · Cosmin Trif

Upgrading vRA (vRealize Automation) to 8.8.2

July 13, 2022 · Cosmin Trif

Upgrading vRLI (vRealize Log Insight) to 8.8.2 via vRSLCM

July 13, 2022 · Cosmin Trif

Upgrading SSC (SaltStack Config) to 8.8.2 using vRSLCM

July 13, 2022 · Cosmin Trif

Upgrading vRSLCM (vRealize Lifecycle Manager) to 8.8.2

July 13, 2022 · Cosmin Trif

June  5

vRealize Lifecycle Manager (vRSLCM) 8 certificate management

June 6, 2022 · Cosmin Trif

Deploying vRA 8.8 using the Easy Installer

June 6, 2022 · Cosmin Trif

ccp-backups folder missing in NSX-T backup

June 6, 2022 · Cosmin Trif

vCLS not starting with Failed - Feature ‘cpuid.mwait’ was absent, but must be present error

June 6, 2022 · Cosmin Trif

Skip-Level Upgrading VCF 4.x to 4.4.1 Step by Step

June 6, 2022 · Cosmin Trif

May  7

Upgrading vROPS (vRealize Operations Manager) to 8.6.3 via vRSLCM

May 16, 2022 · Cosmin Trif

Upgrading vRLI (vRealize Log Insight) to 8.6.2 via vRSLCM

May 16, 2022 · Cosmin Trif

Upgrading vRA (vRealize Automation) to 8.8

May 16, 2022 · Cosmin Trif

SSC 8.8 urllib3 (1.25.11) or chardet (4.0.0) doesn’t match a supported version

May 16, 2022 · Cosmin Trif

SSC 8.8 sseapi_rpc_queue: could not connect to SSE server

May 15, 2022 · Cosmin Trif

Upgrading SSC (SaltStack Config) to 8.8

May 15, 2022 · Cosmin Trif

Upgrading vRSLCM (vRealize Lifecycle Manager) to 8.8

May 15, 2022 · Cosmin Trif

April  6

vRSLCM 8.x change admin@local password via API

April 13, 2022 · Cosmin Trif

vRSLCM 8 API getting started

April 4, 2022 · Cosmin Trif

Installing an vROPS management pack via vRSLCM

April 2, 2022 · Cosmin Trif

Upgrading vROPS (vRealize Operations Manager) to 8.6.2 via vRSLCM

April 2, 2022 · Cosmin Trif

Upgrading vRLI (vRealize Log Insight) to 8.6.2 via vRSLCM

April 2, 2022 · Cosmin Trif

Upgrading vIDM (VMware Identity Manager ) to 3.3.6 via vRSLCM

April 1, 2022 · Cosmin Trif

March  5

Skip-Level Upgrading VCF 4.3.1 to 4.4 Step by Step

March 31, 2022 · Cosmin Trif

Upgrading vRA (vRealize Automation) to 8.7

March 24, 2022 · Cosmin Trif

Upgrading vRNI (vRealize Network Insight) to 6.5.1 via vRSLCM

March 23, 2022 · Cosmin Trif

Upgrading SSC (SaltStack Config) to 8.7

March 23, 2022 · Cosmin Trif

Upgrading vRSLCM (vRealize Lifecycle Manager) to 8.7

March 23, 2022 · Cosmin Trif

February  1

Change Delete old snapshot restriction from 7 days in Automation Central

February 2, 2022 · Cosmin Trif

January  4

vRA 8 API getting started

January 31, 2022 · Cosmin Trif

vROPS Cloud Proxy docker routing

January 18, 2022 · Cosmin Trif

vRSLCM (vRealize Lifecycle Manager) Product Support Pack

January 5, 2022 · Cosmin Trif

Deploying the vROPS cloud proxy

January 4, 2022 · Cosmin Trif

2021  43

December  6

Workaround instructions to address CVE-2021-44228 and CVE-2021-45046 in vRealize Operations 7.x

December 22, 2021 · Cosmin Trif

Changing vRO Kubernetes IP range

December 15, 2021 · Cosmin Trif

vIDM 3.3.5 HA

December 13, 2021 · Cosmin Trif

Upgrading vRSLCM (vRealize Lifecycle Manager) to 8.6.1

December 12, 2021 · Cosmin Trif

vRSLCM (vRealize Lifecycle Manager) Product Support Pack

December 12, 2021 · Cosmin Trif

Deploying vRA 8.6.1 using the Easy Installer

December 7, 2021 · Cosmin Trif

November  1

Creating a Credential (MongoDB) (TVS)

November 11, 2021 · Cosmin Trif

October  15

vROPS 8.6 Administration - Where is it now?

October 27, 2021 · Cosmin Trif

vROPS 8.6 UI Navigation - Where is it now?

October 27, 2021 · Cosmin Trif

Upgrading vRNI (vRealize Network Insight) to 6.4.0 via vRSLCM

October 27, 2021 · Cosmin Trif

Upgrading vIDM (VMware Identity Manager ) to 3.3.5 via vRSLCM

October 25, 2021 · Cosmin Trif

Upgrading vRLI (vRealize Log Insight) to 8.6 via vRSLCM

October 25, 2021 · Cosmin Trif

Downgrading the ESXi version to a different build

October 25, 2021 · Cosmin Trif

Upgrading vROPS (vRealize Operations Manager) to 8.6 via the .pak file

October 25, 2021 · Cosmin Trif

Upgrading vROPS (vRealize Operations Manager) to 8.6 via vRSLCM

October 25, 2021 · Cosmin Trif

Upgrading vRA (vRealize Automation) to 8.6

October 23, 2021 · Cosmin Trif

Skip-Level Upgrading VCF 4.1.0.1 to 4.3.1.0 Step by Step

October 23, 2021 · Cosmin Trif

vROPS 8.6 UI Overview

October 21, 2021 · Cosmin Trif

vCenter upgrade fails with Exception occurred in postinstallHook error

October 19, 2021 · Cosmin Trif

Authentication failed, Lifecycle Manager server could not be contacted

October 12, 2021 · Cosmin Trif

Upgrading vRSLCM (vRealize Lifecycle Manager) to 8.6

October 12, 2021 · Cosmin Trif

Error Code: LCMVSSC10018

October 4, 2021 · Cosmin Trif

September  2

Usage Report for vRealize Cloud Licenses

September 15, 2021 · Cosmin Trif

vRealize Lifecycle Manager (vRSLCM) enable product and licensing downloads

September 15, 2021 · Cosmin Trif

August  5

Upgrading vRA (vRealize Automation) to 8.5

August 20, 2021 · Cosmin Trif

vRSLCM (vRealize Lifecycle Manager) Product Support Pack

August 4, 2021 · Cosmin Trif

Patching vRSLCM (vRealize Lifecycle Manager) to 8.4.1.1 Patch 1

August 4, 2021 · Cosmin Trif

vROps cloud API getting started

August 4, 2021 · Cosmin Trif

Upgrading vRSLCM (vRealize Lifecycle Manager) to 8.4.1.1

August 4, 2021 · Cosmin Trif

May  4

Changing passwords for the vRealize suite via vRSLCM (vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager)

May 19, 2021 · Cosmin Trif

Upgrading vRA (vRealize Automation) to 8.4

May 19, 2021 · Cosmin Trif

Disable vCLS (vSphere Cluster Services) in vSphere

May 19, 2021 · Cosmin Trif

Upgrading vRSLCM (vRealize Lifecycle Manager) to 8.4

May 19, 2021 · Cosmin Trif

March  2

Shutting down a vSAN Cluster

March 27, 2021 · Cosmin Trif

Upgrading VCF 4.1.0.0 to 4.2.0.0 Step by Step

March 25, 2021 · Cosmin Trif

February  6

vRA cloud API getting started

February 26, 2021 · Cosmin Trif

vIDM upgrade to 3.3.4 no networking detected

February 17, 2021 · Cosmin Trif

vIDM 3.3.4 online upgrade

February 17, 2021 · Cosmin Trif

Upgrading vRA (vRealize Automation) to 8.3

February 4, 2021 · Cosmin Trif

Upgrading vRSLCM (vRealize Lifecycle Manager) to 8.3

February 4, 2021 · Cosmin Trif

Deploying SaltStack Config via Lifecycle Manager in a VRA environment

February 2, 2021 · Cosmin Trif

January  2

Deploying vRA 8.3 using the Easy Installer

January 28, 2021 · Cosmin Trif

Creating a customized Snapshot as a Day 2 Action in vRA 8.2

January 1, 2021 · Cosmin Trif

2020  28

December  1

Adding events from vCenter to Operations Manager

December 4, 2020 · Cosmin Trif

November  3

Doing a full restore of the Mac mini M1

November 22, 2020 · Cosmin Trif

Booting Mac mini M1 in DFU mode

November 22, 2020 · Cosmin Trif

How to restart the new Mac mini M1 in recovery mode?

November 22, 2020 · Cosmin Trif

October  6

Patching//Upgrading ESXi 7 to ESXi7U1 via esxcli

October 28, 2020 · Cosmin Trif

ESXi No space left on device error when upgrading

October 28, 2020 · Cosmin Trif

Upgrading VCF 4.0.1.1 to 4.1.0.0

October 14, 2020 · Cosmin Trif

Unable to Sync Lifecycle Manager ‘integrity.fault.HostPatchInvalidVendorCode’

October 10, 2020 · Cosmin Trif

vCLS not starting with Insufficient resources message

October 10, 2020 · Cosmin Trif

Extracting SSL Thumbprint

October 10, 2020 · Cosmin Trif

September  9

vRealize Operation Endpoint Agent (EPops) Unable to register error

September 27, 2020 · Cosmin Trif

Adding keys in vRealize Lifecycle Manager in a VCF 4 Environment

September 13, 2020 · Cosmin Trif

Deploying vRA with vRealize Lifecycle Manager in a VCF 4 Environment

September 13, 2020 · Cosmin Trif

Deploying vIDM with vRealize Lifecycle Manager in a VCF 4 Environment

September 13, 2020 · Cosmin Trif

vRealize Lifeycycle Manager (vRSLCM) 8 certificate mangement

September 13, 2020 · Cosmin Trif

vRealize Lifeycycle Manager (vRSLCM) enable product dowloads

September 13, 2020 · Cosmin Trif

X-Region Application Virtual Network is not created error

September 13, 2020 · Cosmin Trif

Deploying the vRealize suite using VCF 4.0

September 13, 2020 · Cosmin Trif

Downloading specific VCF bundles

September 6, 2020 · Cosmin Trif

August  6

Properly cleaning up VCF downloads//bundles

August 31, 2020 · Cosmin Trif

Upgrading VCF 4.0.1 to 4.0.1.1

August 30, 2020 · Cosmin Trif

vCenter update from the command line

August 30, 2020 · Cosmin Trif

vCenter Appliance Update installation is in progress

August 30, 2020 · Cosmin Trif

Upgrading ESXi via command line

August 27, 2020 · Cosmin Trif

Install/Upgrade ESXi 7.0 on unsupported hardware.

August 22, 2020 · Cosmin Trif

July  3

Change or update vRealize Automation 8 License key

July 23, 2020 · Cosmin Trif

Upgrading VCF 4.0 to VCF 4.0.1

July 16, 2020 · Cosmin Trif

NSX 2.5.0 to NSX 2.5.1 fails with error “restart service install-upgrade” on the NSX Manager.

July 16, 2020 · Cosmin Trif