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If you like me tried to to cleanup the backups in NSX-T and ran into error Cleanup script works only in folders, that contains subfolders "cluster-node-backups", "ccp-backups" and "inventory-summary" this post is for you. I was trying to cleanup the backups before going to the next major release of nsx and I kept getting an error running the nsx_backup_cleaner.py script. It would seem that the ccp-backups folder has been removed from the backup job so it simply doesn’t exist. VMware did fix the script with the 3.2 release. ...

I recently ran in to an issue where I had to re-register my NSX server with vIDM. The ask was to extract the Thumbprint from vIDM. The command I ran to extract it was: echo -n | openssl s_client -connect hostname:443 2>/dev/null | openssl x509 -noout -fingerprint -sha256 This can be used across multiple products where the Thumbprint needs to be extracted

I’ve recently ran through a problem when trying to upgrade NSX-T from version 2.5.0 to 2.5.1. When using the Upgrade function within the UI I was getting the following error: This page is only available on the NSX Manager where Upgrade Coordinator is running. To configure the service, run the command restart service install-upgrade on the NSX Manager. ...