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I recently ran into a problem where I needed to route the subnet that is being used for the docker routing on the vROPS Cloud Proxy appliance. The network used is 172.17.0.0/16. For this we will try to route a portion of that subnet through my ethernet interface To test the configuration out without adding a persistent route I used the following command: ip route add 172.17.11.0/24 via 172.16.11.1 dev eth0 Verify that everything is running properly, if anything went wrong the route should get reverted on the next reboot. If the changes are successful we can add the route as persistent by editing the network configuration using vi: ...

In this guide we will go over Deploying the vROPS cloud proxy for cloud as well as on premise. The official VMware documentation can be found here Getting the Cloud Proxy OVA and OTK Key To get started log in to your vROPS instance. If its cloud it would be something similar to https://www.mgmt.cloud.vmware.com/vrops-cloud/ui/index.action For on premise it would be https://vrops_url/ui/login.action Once you are logged on We can go to Data Sources -> Cloud Proxies and press on New. example: ...

In this article I will go over one of the workaround instructions to address CVE-2021-44228 and CVE-2021-45046 in vRealize Operations 7.x. I have tested the workaround on vROPS 7.5 as its still shipped with VCF 3.x and I haven’t yet seen documentation on a workaround for this version. If you are looking for instructions for version 8.x consult kb article 87076. This has been tested on December 21 2021. Please check the official documentation or open a ticket for production usage. Where possible, moving to a release that ships with the fixed Log4j is the cleaner long-term option — I covered upgrading vROps to 8.6.2 via vRSLCM separately. ...

In this guide we will go over Creating a Credential for MongoDB in vROPS for the True Visibility Management pack. The original documentation was posted here however it hasn’t yet been updated to vROPS 8.6 and the new vROPS cloud. Procedure From the Left navigation bar, select Data Sources -> Integrations -> Credentials Click the Add button on the top left. In the Manage Credential window that appears, select whether or not authentication is required for your MongoDB environment, then enter the information indicated below: ...

During one of the recent upgrades in my VCF environment I accidentally upgraded the ESXi 7.x build number to a later build that was not in the validated design which caused all kinds of issues and errors in my sddc manager. In order to address this I wanted to see I could actually downgrade the packages to a lower build number. It goes without saying that this procedure should not be done in a production environment and you should contact VMware customer support for an supported downgrade method. We will be working in the ESXi cli on this guide ...

With the release of of VCF 4.3.1 I wanted to get my lab upgraded. The release blog can be found here and the release notes are here Downloading the Upgrade Bundles In order to get to 4.3.1.0 in the past we had to upgrade to each version incrementally. As per the documentation found here we can now upgrade from any release past 4.1.0.1 directly to 4.3.1 skipping the releases in between. We can do so by going to Repository -> Bundle management -> Download now. Download the Configuration drift bundle as well as the Update package. ...

In this post I will go over the Usage Report for vRealize Cloud Licenses. I will cover the online method which does the reporting automatically as well as the offline method that requires us to upload the usage manually. The documentation for the Usage Report can be found here. The vRealize Cloud Universal service description EULA and requirements can be found here. Reporting Responsibilities Under the EULA As described the EULA our responsibilities include: ...

I have the need to completely shut down some of my vSAN clusters for various clusters and ive been having a hard time finding the proper procedure. As of 2/16/2021 VMware released guidance here Here are the steps I took to do it on my end. If you have the vCLS service enabled follow my other instructions here prior to starting the rest of this guide. Disable cluster member updates from vCenter on each ESXi host in the cluster by running ...

With the release of of VCF 4.2 I wanted to get my lab upgraded. The release blog can be found here and the release notes are here Upgrading to VCF 4.1.0.1 First In order to get to 4.2.0.0 we have to upgrade to 4.1.0.1. We can do so by going to Repository -> Bundle management -> Download now The next step is to upgrade VCF by going to Inventory -> Workload Domains -> Select the workload domain -> Update/Patches -> Update Now for the VMware Cloud Foundation Update 4.1.0.1. The release notes can be found here ...

I wanted to go through the upgrade of vIDM 3.3.4 outside of lifecycle manager. I wanted to do it using the online upgrade via the console. Official documentation can be found here. First step is to log on to the console via the root credentials and upgrade the upgrade manager to 3.3.4 /usr/local/horizon/update/updatemgr.hzn updateinstaller Set the upgrade version that you are upgrading from in my case was 3.3.2 so I ran ...