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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...

I recently ran through an routing issue where the Kubernetes IP range in vRO 8.6 was used somewhere else on the network. I didn’t want to redeploy the appliance so i went through the below to get it updated First i identified what the ip range in use is...

In this guide we will go over the vIDM 3.3.5 HA configuration. The official documentation can be found here Im going to assume that the load balancer configuration is already completed, the vIDM appliance has a the required certificate in the LCM inventory. Please read the official documentation for...

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 ->...

During VMworld 2021 we announced vRealize Operations 8.6 which now provides allot of new features and capabilities. You can see an Whats New overview here as well as a feature walk through here. I this blog we will be focusing specifically on the Administration menu and how it maps to the new...

During VMworld 2021 we announced vRealize Operations 8.6 which provides a lot of new features and capabilities. You can see an Whats New overview here as well as a feature walk through here. With the new UI release some of the content might not be where were used to...

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...

In this guide we will go over upgrading vROPS (vRealize Operations Manager) to the latest 8.6 releases using the .pak file. If you you vRSLCM (vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager) i would strongly recommend upgrading using the vRSLCM method found here as it does additional checks of the environment like...

During VMworld 2021 we announced vRealize Operations 8.6 which now provides allot of new features and capabilities. You can see an Whats New overview here as well as a feature walk through here. I this post we will focus specifically on the UI enhancements. The UI changes are the...

I was recently going through a vCenter upgrade and got stuck at an error Exception occurred in postinstallHook. I tried reverting from snapshot and trying again but i ran through the same issue. The issue in my case was that the catalina.properties had the wrong permissions. The fix was...

I recently upgraded my vCenter to 7.0.3 18700403 and i noticed that when i went to Lifecycle Manager i was welcomed with this error. “Authentication failed, Lifecycle Manager server could not be contacted.“ Im not aware of a fix for this issue however using the [email protected] seems to be...

If you like me deployed SSC (SaltStack Config) outside of LCM and are now trying to import it under LCM management you probably ran in to the following error: Error Code: LCMVSSC10018vRealize Automation SaltStack Config import failed as unable to validate license. Check whether proper license is applied to...

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....

I would try the restore options first. You can find instructions for the restore menu here If the recovery menu doesn’t work put the Mac mini in DFU mode by following the instructions I have here One the device is in DFU open Apple Configurator 2 (Mac Only sorry...

Disconnect the power cord from the Mac Mini. Plug USB-C/Thunderbolt cable into the USB-C port next to the ethernet port. Plug the other end into the Host Mac. While holding down the power button, connect the Mac Mini to power and continue to hold the power button for about...

I recently purchased one of the newer Mac mini devices with the new M1 chipset. Unfortunately I went with the lower edition that had 256 GB and I wanted to send it back to purchase the bigger 512 GB edition, but I wanted to clean my installation. In order...