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In this post I will go over upgrading my 8.x SSC appliance to 8.8.2. As a pre requirement we do need to have vRSLCM (vRealize Lifecycle Manager) upgraded to 8.8.2. Instructions can be found here. The upgrade already includes the latest Product Support Pack so an update to the Product Support Pack is not required. Adding the 8.8.2 Binaries in vRSLCM To get started we can go to vRealize Lifecycle Manager -> Lifecycle Operations -> Settings -> Binary Mapping. (If you haven’t added your My VMware credentials you will need to do that first by going to vRealize Lifecycle Manager -> Lifecycle Operations -> Settings -> My VMware) ...

In this guide I will go over the steps of getting an existing 8.x vRSLCM appliance upgraded to the latest 8.8.2 release. The release notes can be found here Accessing the System Upgrade Settings The first step is to log in to vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager under the Lifecycle Operations section ...

vRealize Lifecycle Manager (vRSLCM) includes a Certificate Management feature. Access it from Home -> Locker -> Certificate. We can generate Self Signed certificates for products managed by Lifecycle Manager as well as certificate requests to be signed by a certification authority Generate a new CSR ...

In this guide I will go over the deployment of vRA 8.8 using the Easy Installer. The reason I like the Easy Installer is because it deploys everything that I need. vIDM, Lifecycle Manager as well as vRA. Downloading and Mounting the Installer To get started we need to download the installer from here. Once downloaded mount the iso as a drive using your favorite tool or extract it as a archive using something like 7-zip ...

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. ...

With the release of of VCF 4.4.1 I wanted to get my lab upgraded. The release blog can be found here and the release notes are here Downloading the VCF 4.4.1 Bundle In order to get to 4.4.1.0 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 4.4.1 skipping the releases in between. We can do so by going to Repository -> Bundle management -> Download now. ...

In this post I will go over upgrading my 8.x vROPS appliance to 8.6.3 using vRSLCM (vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager). As a pre requirement we do need to have vRSLCM (vRealize Lifecycle Manager) upgraded to 8.8 Instructions can be found here. The upgrade already includes the latest Product Support Pack so an update to the Product Support Pack is not required. Downloading the 8.6.3 Upgrade Binaries To get started we can go to vRealize Lifecycle Manager -> Lifecycle Operations -> Settings -> Binary Mapping. (If you haven’t added your My VMware credentials you will need to do that first by going to vRealize Lifecycle Manager -> Lifecycle Operations -> Settings -> My VMware) ...

In this post I will go over upgrading my 8.x vRLI appliance to 8.6.2 using vRSLCM (vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager). As a pre requirement we do need to have vRSLCM (vRealize Lifecycle Manager) upgraded to 8.6.2 or 8.7. Instructions can be found here. The upgrade already includes the latest Product Support Pack so an update to the Product Support Pack is not required. Downloading the Upgrade Binaries To get started we can go to vRealize Lifecycle Manager -> Lifecycle Operations -> Settings -> Binary Mapping. (If you haven’t added your My VMware credentials you will need to do that first by going to vRealize Lifecycle Manager -> Lifecycle Operations -> Settings -> My VMware) ...

In this post I will go over upgrading my 8.x vRA appliance to 8.8. As a pre requirement we do need to have vRSLCM (vRealize Lifecycle Manager) upgraded to 8.78 Instructions can be found here. The upgrade already includes the latest Product Support Pack so an update to the Product Support Pack is not required. Mapping and Downloading the vRA 8.8 Binaries To get started we can go to vRealize Lifecycle Manager -> Lifecycle Operations -> Settings -> Binary Mapping. (If you haven’t added your My VMware credentials you will need to do that first by going to vRealize Lifecycle Manager -> Lifecycle Operations -> Settings -> My VMware) ...

I recently upgraded my LCM deployed SSC server to 8.8. If you need a guide to go through the upgrade you can find my other post here. After the upgrade was completed I was noticing strange behavior in the SSC UI so I checked the status the of the services. Here are the errors I found and how I fixed them The first step was to check the status of the service ...