To automate Day 2 actions of vCD, vRO is one of the primary tools used in industry and this blog is going to show Integration and Configuration of vCD Plug-in with vRO. Note: Prerequisite of this action is to have vRO installed and integrated with vSphere/vRA authentication. I am excluding the installation of vRO and … Read more
Topology of my lab is 1 vCSA with external PSC each site and total of 2 sites( logically) in same SSO domain. Due to resource contention i had to power off the secondary site.But later i faced a weird problem, my NSX dashboard was not working -> showing above error. My first step to troubleshoot … Read more
Last post we discussed about, How to deploy vCD Primary cell. In this post we will: Deploy Standby Cell in the same server group Check the Embedded PostgreSQL Database is enabled with High Availability Check Connectivity Status, Replication Status and HA Status Purpose of the Standby Cell is provide High Availability for the PostgreSQL. “The … Read more
As an extension of the last post, where we discussed how to take File-based backup and to schedule it.In this post, we will do exactly what the title say “Restore vCSA 6.7 VM, from File based backup” from NFS. It’s a simple 2 stage process: Appliance Deployment Configuration restore. Note: You need to use same … Read more
A new way of taking backup vCSA was introduced in vSphere 6.5 “File-Based Backups “using protocols of HTTP/HTTP,FTP/FTPS and SCP. This backup can be used to restore healthy vCSA.But this feature never felt complete as Scheduling this backup action was not possible OOB. We can always using script to perform but OOB it was not available.Below … Read more
If an organization is using VMware products like vSphere, NSX, vRA etc there are higher chances vROps is also in place. As vROps solves monitoring and reporting requirement. There is another product which is kind of an underdog in the VMware portfolio in my opinion named VMware Log Insight but highly useful. We have both … Read more