How to change vRO 7.x Active-Active cluster to Active-StandBy?

A relatively simple looking process, but at times, it might make you wonder in which order I should be doing this. Lately while talking with a customer, I realized that in vRO documentation, hints of this process are given but not really in the form of step by step instructions. I then went ahead and… Continue reading How to change vRO 7.x Active-Active cluster to Active-StandBy?

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Rename vSphere datastore which is being used as Storage Path in vRA 7.2

Just for curiosity sake, This morning I have decided to see how vRA managed machines behave when I rename corresponding datastore name. Let’s say I have a vSphere cluster being used as Compute Resource in vRA, and this cluster is being backed by a datastore named ‘datastore1’, and there are set of VMs residing on… Continue reading Rename vSphere datastore which is being used as Storage Path in vRA 7.2

Replace vRealize Business Standard 7 Self Signed Certificates

Replace vRealize Business Standard 7.0 Self-Signed SSL Certificates. Business Management tab in vRA reports SSLHandshakeException. Business Management Tab in vRA reporting error Javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: java.security.cert.CertificateException: Untrusted Certificate Chain vRA VAMI starts to report following services status as Blank vcbm-service (com.vmware.vcbm.vcbm) pricing-api (com.vmware.vcbm.pricing) Did this in a vRA 7.1 – vRB 7.0 based simple deployment Where I… Continue reading Replace vRealize Business Standard 7 Self Signed Certificates

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VMware vForum Online 2016

Attend vForum Online 19th April, 2016 where featured speakers are VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger and VMware CTO Chris Wolf, talking SDDC, End User Computing and the Hybrid cloud. There will be 8 Hands-On-Labs to test-drive a variety of VMware Solutions. Certain unique product demos by VMware system engineers and unlimited access to eBooks, tech-tips and… Continue reading VMware vForum Online 2016

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Delete Firewall rules in VCSA 6.0

Let’s say we have vCSA 6.0 appliance in place, where some firewall rules are created. Managing this is easy using vSphere Web Client -> Administration -> System Configuration -> Nodes -> <your vCSA node> -> Manage -> Settings -> Firewall (List of rules would appear like following screenshot) Click on ‘Edit’ button Where there are… Continue reading Delete Firewall rules in VCSA 6.0

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