Henk Engelsman

28 March 2023

Generate and replace Log Insight Certificates

Introduction This blogpost is about various options and corresponding tasks to generate and replace vRealize Log Insight (aka Aria Operations for Logs) certificates. Experience and instructions in this blog are based on a standard vSphere Environment (no VCF, no NSX-T): vCenter 7.0u3k, vRealize Lifecycle Manager (vRSLCM) 8.10 Product Support Pack 8, vRealize Log Insight (vRLI) 8.10.2. My vRLI environment consists...

vRLI/vRSLCM

23 October 2022

vSphere with Tanzu on VDS with HAProxy

This blogpost is about deploying vSphere with Tanzu on a VDS Setup with HAProxy. I know there has been more than one blogpost written on this topic, but here are the steps I took to get up and running with vSphere with Tanzu. The official VMware [documenatiation] has additional and detailed information. Pre-requirements Networking Setup Unify Network with the following...

tanzu/vSphere Comments: 0

28 July 2022

Install ESXi 7 on SD Card or USB

There have been a lot of issues and discussion going on about the installation of ESXi 7 on SD Cards or USB devices. Although it was never recommended, many organizations installed ESXi on SD/USB without any issues until ESXi version 7 was released. While there have been several issues with some ESXi 7 versions, the release of ESXi 7.0U3c resolves...

ESXi/vSphere Comments: 0

1 May 2022

vRA 8.8 Custom Names

With the release of vRA 8.8 you can now make use of Custom Names by enabling this feature through the UI. I have written before about vRA Custom Names since the release of version 8.6.1. However, in that version the Custom Names feature was hidden and could only be enabled with some API reverse engineering (hence I had to temporarily...

Automation/vRA Comments: 2

10 February 2022

Using vCenter Content Library with vRealize Automation 8

To speed up vRA VM deployments a common used practice is to copy the “golden” VM templates to each vSphere cluster with a script or via vRealize Orchestrator. In addition for vRA7 environments, the custom property “CloneFrom” [Custom Property] in combination with an Orchestrator Workflow is used to select the template from the cluster that the new VM is deployed...

Automation/vCenter/vRA/vSphere Comments: 0

23 January 2022

VIDM 3.3.5 to 3.3.6 Upgrade Error – Fix the missing OVF Properties with PowerCLi.

Update 05/feb/2023; I ran into this issue again while upgrading to 3.3.7 and created an updated Powershell script on my [Github] page. After the release of vRealize Automation 8.6.2 and deploying this in greenfield, I also wanted to upgrade my “production” environment. Before you can upgrade to vRA 8.6.2, you have to upgrade vRSLCM to version 8.6.2 and VIDM to...

VIDM/vRSLCM Comments: 0

26 November 2021

vRA 8.6.1 Custom names

Update 29/04 – Although the Custom Names feature is available in vRA 8.6.1. it is a hidden feature and not available from the UI. I had some issues around the contents of this blogpost so I decided to temporarily remove it. Please check out my new blogpost [here] about the custom names feature which is available in vRA 8.8 Before...

vRA Comments: 3

15 November 2021

How to resize VIDM or Workspace ONE Access Disks

As a follow up to a [previous article] where I described how to resize the disk for VIDM, my co-blogger came up with another (better) solution that does not require the installation of gparted. Note that resizing sda has a different procedure than resizing sdb/sdc (traditional partition vs [LVM]). This blogpost is based on Photon based Workspace ONE Access 2108....

Access/Linux/VIDM/Workspace ONE Comment: 1

2 October 2021

Getting started with vRA SaltStack Config – part 2

If you successfully complete part 1, it is now time to see the integration between vRA and SaltStack in action. To make life a bit easier (but insecure) you can configure SSC to automatically Accept new Minion Keys. To do this, you have to edit the file /etc/salt/master and look for the auto_accept entry. Remove the bracket and set the...

Automation/SaltStack/vRA Comments: 0