the reason I am creating this blog post is purely because the message was mis-leading but the actual reason was different fot this error in Infrastructure Tab. One of the customer retported that they cannot see IaaS-Service regsitred in vRA VAMI -> Services, it’s being reported as blank. at the same time in vRA portal,… Continue reading vRA 7.x Infrastructure Tab reporting Server Error 401 – Unauthorized: Access is denied due to invalid credentials
Add PowerShell Host fails in vRO 7.x
While making an attempt to add PowerShell host in vRO 7.x fails with an error Initial Error: ‘Add a PowerShell host/item8’, state: ‘failed’, business state: ‘null’, exception: ‘Clients credentials have been revoked (18) (Dynamic Script Module name : addPowerShellHost#12)’ workflow: ‘Add a PowerShell host’ (EF8180808080808080808080808080803D80808001270557368849c62c352aa82) | ‘attribute’: name=errorCode type=string value=Clients credentials have been revoked (18)… Continue reading Add PowerShell Host fails in vRO 7.x
Network and Security Inventory data collection fails in vRA 7.1
One of the customer reporting that their vRA 7.1 has started reporting deployment failures, and they were suspecting that this is happening due to Network and Security inventory data collection failures can be seen in vRA Infrastrastructure -> Compute Resource tab under all the Compute Resources. Customer also revealed that they recently changed vRA ->… Continue reading Network and Security Inventory data collection fails in vRA 7.1
Change Lease to Never Expire in vRA 7.1
working with vRA 7.1 created a blueprint with Minimum Lease as 10 Days and left Maximum lease as empty. created a deployment out of it with 10 days lease and now I have a need to change the lease of this same deployment to Never Expire. Action entitlement is there to do this and I… Continue reading Change Lease to Never Expire in vRA 7.1
Unallocate IP from IP Range in vRA 6.2.x
This came as a requirement from one of the clients. They are using vRA 6.2.2 where they have migrated few Deployments (vSphere VMs) from one Reservation to Other and ended up in a situation that old Reservation based Network profile which was having IP Range configured from where these set of VMs were holding IPs… Continue reading Unallocate IP from IP Range in vRA 6.2.x
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
Simplified exam booking process
on 05/03/2016, PeasonVue and VMware announced a new process of Booking or Managing your VMware Certification exams. As part of this, now you don’t have to request Authorization for Exam and then separately launch PearsonVue portal to book the exam. There’s no need to even maintain two accounts across these two websites. All you got… Continue reading Simplified exam booking process
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
vSphere 5.5 or higher and Reliable Memory Technology
like we know ECC (Error-Correcting Code) is a great feature we have to tackle soft errors happening in RAM, without causing OS to fail, but ECC protects us from single soft error in a memory block at a time, so if there are multiple soft errors in a single memory block or hard errors on… Continue reading vSphere 5.5 or higher and Reliable Memory Technology
Currency Settings in vRA 6.2
How to change currency settings in vRA 6.2? Login with ‘IaaS Admin’ role account. go to Infrastructure -> Administration -> Global Properties Find Group: Installation – Edit Core set Value: en-US or hi-IN or gu-IN (See full list here) (see following screenshot)