In this guide I will go over the steps of getting an existing 8.x vRSLCM appliance upgraded to the latest 8.4.1 Patch 1 release. The release notes can be found here. If you are not yet on 8.4.1.1, I covered upgrading vRSLCM to 8.4.1.1 in a previous post. The first step is to lo in to vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager under the Lifecycle Operations section ...

I wanted to keep track of what needs to be done prior to actually being able to query API on vROps cloud. I’ve been having a hard time finding the documentation I needed in the past First step is to get an API token for the specific username. We can do this by going to My account under User Settings in vROps Cloud ...

In this guide I will go over the steps of getting an existing 8.x vRSLCM appliance upgraded to the latest 8.4 release. The release notes can be found here The first step is to lo in to vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager under the Lifecycle Operations section Go to settings -> System Upgrade ...

In this guide I will go over one of the Locker feature in vRealize Lifecycle Manager specifically the password management. Passwords Managed by vRSLCM As a reminder vRSLCM can manage the following: Type of Password Change vRealize Product Name Admin Password Change vRealize Automation, vRealize Operations Manager, vRealize Network Insight, vRealize Log Insight, VMware Identity Manager Root Password Change vRealize Automation, vRealize Operations Manager, vRealize Network Insight, vRealize Log Insight, VMware Identity Manager Support Password Change vRealize Network Insight Console User Password Change vRealize Network Insight SSH User Password Change VMware Identity Manager Accessing the Locker Service The first step is to create a new password. We can do so by going to Locker from the welcome screen or the menu on top right ...

In this post I will go over upgrading my 8.x vRA appliance to 8.4. As a pre requirement we do need to have vRSLCM (vRealize Lifecycle Manager) upgraded to 8.4. Instructions can be found here Adding the Upgrade Binary 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) ...

While doing maintenance on my vSAN cluster recently I had the need to disable the vCLS in order to fully shut down the cluster. Doing some reasearch I found kb article 80472 that talk about temporarily disabling the service in order to perform maintenance. The steps are fairly easy First we need to get the Cluster id from vSphere. To do so all we need to do is select the cluster and look at the url. For example ...

In this guide I will go over the steps of getting an existing 8.x vRSLCM appliance upgraded to the latest 8.4 release. The release notes can be found here The first step is to lo in to vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager under the Lifecycle Operations section Go to settings -> System Upgrade ...

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 keep track of what needs to be done prior to actually being able to query API on vRA cloud. I’ve been having a hard time finding the documentation I needed in the past First step is to get an API token for the specific username. We can do this by going to My account under User Settings in vRA Cloud ...