Assuming that you already downloaded the SaltStack Config binaries in this guide we will go over the deployment of SaltStack Config in an existing VRA 8.3 environment via Lifecycle Manager 8.3 Adding SaltStack Config to the vRA Environment Log on to Lifecycle Manager -> Go to environments, on the vRA environment click on the Menu and go to Add Product ...

In this guide I will go over the deployment of vRA 8.3 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 the Broadcom support portal (the original my.vmware.com download page no longer exists). Once downloaded mount the iso as a drive using your favorite tool or extract it as a archive using something like 7-zip ...

I wanted to give my users the capability to create a snapshot but limit them to only 1 snapshot and have a predefined description from the snapshot so I can know that it was taken from vRA. For the purpose of this I will be using a customer workflow in Orchestrator and Resource Actions and in Cloud Assembly. Since Orchestrator comes with a number of pre defined workflows in always like to jump start by find something thats similar with what im trying to do. For the purpose of this we will be using the Create Snapshot Workflow. ...

I recently ran in to a situation where one of the events in vCenter wasn’t showing up in Operations Manager Doing some research and I found this kb article: 65106 Basically there’s a file called eventlist.txt under /usr/lib/vmware-vcops/user/plugins/inbound/vmwarevi_adapter3/conf/ on the master node so I logged on to master node via ssh and did vi /usr/lib/vmware-vcops/user/plugins/inbound/vmwarevi_adapter3/conf/eventlist.txt Comment out the event that we want to get alerts for and restart the service by running ...

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 Windows folks). Make sure you are at least at version Version 2.13.2 Connect the USB-C cable to the Mac and the Mac mini to the port closest to the ethernet port ...

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 3-5 seconds You should now see the DFU logo on the Host Mac. Once the Mac mini is in DFU mode, you can do a full restore of the Mac mini M1.

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 to to boot in the recovery mode to reinstall the os I had to perform the following steps: Make sure the Mac mini is off, if its not off just shut it off Hold the power button until the options appear, it might seem like a long time but keep holding it. It took about 15 seconds for me. A menu should appear that shows the hard drive and Options. Select options and continue You will see the apple logo and then a new menu should appear with additional options. It would look like this: ...

While I was trying to perform an upgrade to my ESXi installation I ran in to the below error: The fix was pretty simple. The hypervisor doesn’t have enough space to download and install the package so we need to enable one of the available datastores for the function. For vCenter go to the host in question to Configure -> System -> System Swap ...

With the release of of VCF 4.1 I wanted to get my lab upgraded. The release blog can be found here and the release notes are here Downloading the 4.1.0.0 Update Bundle In my case I pre downloaded the VMware Cloud Foundation Update 4.1.0.0 by going to Repository -> Bundle management -> Download now Applying the VCF 4.1.0.0 Update The next step is to upgrade VCF by going to Inventory -> Workload Domains -> Select the workload domain -> Update/Patches -> Update Now ...

After upgrading my vCenter Server to the latest vSphere 7.0 Update 1, I was unable to see ESXi 7.0 Update 1 Image. When I attempted to sync the updates I got the error “Download patch definitions task failed while syncing depots. Error: ‘integrity.fault.HostPatchInvalidVendorCode’.” Seeing as the error mentioned the depots, navigate to Menu->Lifecycle Manager and then select the Settings tab and then Patch Setup. ...