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VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle upgrade to 8.16

In this guide i will go over the steps of getting an existing 8.x vRSLCM appliance upgraded to the latest 8.16 release. The release notes can be found here. We can upgrade from vRealize Lifecycle Manager to VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle. The first step is to log in to VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle under the Lifecycle Operations section Go to Settings -> System Upgrade Click on Check for Upgrade ...

March 13, 2024 · 1 min · Cosmin
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VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle Product Support Pack (PSPAK) Upgrade

In this guide i will go over the steps of getting an existing 8.x VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle (formerly vRSLCM vRealize Lifecycle Manager) appliance to support the latest product releases available. Here is a great blog that goes in to the details about what the Product Support Pack is https://blogs.vmware.com/management/2019/01/vrslcm-pspak.html. Typically the newer Product Support Pack is included part of the upgrade for LCM, however sometimes there are product releases in between releases where product support packs come in handy. ...

December 4, 2023 · 2 min · Cosmin
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Upgrading VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle to 8.14

In this guide i will go over the steps of getting an existing 8.x vRSLCM appliance upgraded to the latest 8.14 release. The release notes can be found here. We can upgrade from vRealize Lifecycle Manager to VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle. The first step is to log in to vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager under the Lifecycle Operations section Go to settings -> System Upgrade Click on Check for Upgrade ...

October 25, 2023 · 1 min · Cosmin
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Upgrading VCF 4.3.x to VCF 5 Step by Step

With the release of of VCF 5 I wanted to get my lab upgraded. The release blog can be found here and the release notes are here Please note that some of the components within the VCF will still need additional upgrading. Please read the release notes for additional details. We can start by going to Inventory -> Workload Domains -> Select the domain -> Update/Patches -> Select the VCF version -> Download now. If you do not see the newest releases go to Administration -> Online Depot and add a VMware Customer Connect account that has access to perform downloads. ...

June 27, 2023 · 4 min · Cosmin
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Upgrading vRSLCM (vRealize Lifecycle Manager) to 8.12

In this guide i will go over the steps of getting an existing 8.x vRSLCM appliance upgraded to the latest 8.12 release. The release notes can be found here The first step is to log in to vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager under the Lifecycle Operations section Go to settings -> System Upgrade Click on Check for Upgrade We can see that the check found a new version available for 8.12 ...

June 20, 2023 · 1 min · Cosmin
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VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle Product Support Pack (PSPAK) Upgrade

In this guide i will go over the steps of getting an existing 8.x VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle (formerly vRSLCM vRealize Lifecycle Manager) appliance to support the latest product releases available. Here is a great blog that goes in to the details about what the Product Support Pack is https://blogs.vmware.com/management/2019/01/vrslcm-pspak.html. Typically the newer Product Support Pack is included part of the upgrade for LCM, however sometimes there are product releases in between releases where product support packs come in handy. ...

May 19, 2023 · 2 min · Cosmin

Removing NSX stale packages from ESXi host

I recently ran in to a problem where i wanted to perform a clean configuration of one of my ESXi hosts from an NSX perspective, however i ran in to a problem where NSX was reporting that the packages are already installed. To fix the issue i had to run the following to list the packages installed: esxcli software vib list | grep -i nsx Once i had the list all i had to do is uninstall them using: ...

March 3, 2023 · 1 min · Cosmin
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Configure NSX-T to use vIDM as authentication

I needed to create a few additional accounts in NSX-T for outside sources. Instead of creating individual accounts i wanted to use the existing ones from AD. To get started we need to get the certificate from the vIDM server. Log on to the vIDM server as root and run the following: openssl1 s_client -connect <FQDN of vIDM host>:443 < /dev/null 2> /dev/null | openssl x509 -sha256 -fingerprint -noout -in /dev/stdin Next we need to create the OAuth client ID in vIDM. Log in to the vIDM UI using the url SAAS/admin/app/page#!/dashboard as admin and Navigate to Catalog -> Settings ...

March 3, 2023 · 2 min · Cosmin
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vRSLCM (vRealize Lifecycle Manager) Product Support Pack

In this guide i will go over the steps of getting an existing 8.x vRSLCM appliance to support the latest product releases available. Here is a great blog that goes in to the details about what the Product Support Pack is https://blogs.vmware.com/management/2019/01/vrslcm-pspak.html. Typically the newer Product Support Pack is included part of the upgrade for LCM, however sometimes there are product releases in between releases where product support packs come in handy. ...

February 3, 2023 · 2 min · Cosmin
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Upgrading VCF 4.4.0 to 4.5 Step by Step

With the release of of VCF 4.5 i wanted to get my lab upgraded. The release blog can be found here and the release notes are here Please note that some of the components within the VCF will still need additional upgrading. Please read the release notes for additional details. We can start by going to Lifecycle Management -> Bundle management -> Download now. If you do not see the newest releases go to Administration -> Repository settings and add a VMware Customer Connect account that has access to perform downloads. ...

February 3, 2023 · 4 min · Cosmin
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