After vRA was upgraded from 7.3 to 7.6 and the infoblox plugin to the latest, Deployments fail with the below message: After investigation from Infoblox, we found the Extensible attribute “VMware IPaddress” was missing on infoblox Infoblox Documentation: https://docs.infoblox.com/download/attachments/8945695/Infoblox_IPAM_Plugin_for_VMware_vRA_User%27s_Guide.pdf?version=1&modificationDate=1606831097478&api=v2 In a second scenario, Looks like my DHCP range was fully allocated. we root caused this […]
cannot verify certificate chain. when attempting to add vCenter to usage meter 4.x
bump up logs to trace and re-adding shows the below: when looking at the certificate of the venter Cause: Incorrect ordering of the certificates. if you look closely on the certificate chain: Certificate 0 is for the vcenter server and was issued by RapidSSL. Certificate 1 is the DigiCert root certificate. And certificate 2 is […]
vRA 8.x GitLab Integration
Create the GitLab integration in vRealize Automation: 1. Navigate to Infrastructure > Connections > Integrations. 2. Click + ADD INTEGRATION. 3. Select GitLab. 4. Enter the Name and Description. 5. Enter the server URL. 6. Enter the access token. 7. Click VALIDATE. 8. Click ADD. The Access Token is copied from the GitLab console. Preparing […]
HomeLab Storage Upgrade!!
Old blue drives on my dual xeon build!! Red Drives on Netgear nas
vRA 7.6 HP upgrade fails RPM already installed
vRA 7.6 HP upgrade fails with Resolution Run and then re-try the upgrade. if the problem persists then and then re-run the upgrade
Deepin linux 20, snap packages do not show up on launcher
create a symlnk of the snap package to the deepin desktop config dir below example to make it executable globally
vRo 7/8 Plugin on vCenter 6.7 missing/do not load after upgrade
There is no GA plugin available for the HTML5 client. This is planed to be included on the 8.2 release. You may use the beta client as a workaround, However this needs manual installation.. Please ensure that you take a snapshot before you run through the below steps. cleanup: Delete/move the contents of the below […]
Install Rancher and set up a Kubernetes cluster
Install docker: install Rancher in a docker container (single node) with persistent data. We’ll map 80 of the container to 8080 of the docker host and 443 of the container to 8443 of the external host, I’m doing this since I will be using the above ports for different containers. check the status of the […]
Usage Meter: trigger manual collection
manual collection can be triggered via API we first need to get a tioken and then invoke API: token: trigger collection:
Usage meter 4.2 ip/DNS changes back to default after reboot.
Symptom: On new deployment, the Ip/DNS are set correctly but after deployment and power on, the DNS or the IP range is different to that of what was used at the time of deployment symptom2: When you try to change the Ip/DNS of the usage meter appliance, it returns back to the original values after […]