You know that feeling when you’re all set to start working on something, your plan is clear, and you’re ready to take action — but your homelab decides otherwise? That was me recently. I urgently needed a few print screens for a presentation I was giving at the UK VMUG, but of course, that’s exactly … More VRA doesn’t start
If you’ve ever deployed vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) through Lifecycle Manager (LCM) and hit strange errors during first boot, you’re not alone.Recently, I ran into exactly that situation while setting up an Orchestrator in one of my vRA tenants — and what looked like a simple network issue turned out to be a great troubleshooting lesson. … More Troubleshooting vRA Orchestrator Deployment Failure Through LCM
It was time to update my Aria Automation certificates. Luckily this is an automated process you can execute through LCM, a process which is way easier than before. But for security reasons I always take a snapshot of my current environment.However when I wanted to take my snapshot, I got an error during the precheck … More LCM snapshot creation fails on health-check
Kristof, what did you do wrong now? 🙂 Well in my multi-tenant environment I deleted my original “configadmin” account. I did that because I wanted to change my naming convention of my accounts. Once I created my new account through LCM, it was time to test my connection.Well to my big surprise I got a … More Not able to connect with configadmin
It took me a while till I had everything sorted out to be able to push my packages to vRO/vRA so I documented my process. If I ever need to do it again I can always come back to my own blog 😀 and hopefully it also helps some of you in the process.At the … More Configure your windows workstation for Aria Build Tools
I just deployed Aria automation and was busy configuring my deployment. When I tried to make a connection to VMC on AWS I received this “Invalid API token” error. What I forgot was, that although I had all the connectivity I needed on my jump server. I needed a proxy server for my appliances.So I … More Adding a proxy to Aria Automation
It’s been a while since I’ve added a new blog post, but changing career to freelancer has quite an impact on your free time. But my good intentions for 2025 is to blog more again 😀 The infoblox integration took me some time to get all the settings right, so I thought this makes a … More Infoblox integration and IP assignment
Ok another booboo for the books 🙂 . After several troubleshooting attempts I wasn’t able to restore my vCenter. At that time I kind had it, and in a moment of frustration, I deleted my vCenter without thinking to much about it. Now if you have distributed switches, like me, you automatically create an issue. … More Restore ESXi network connectivity after you lost (or in my case deleted) your vCenter
This weekend I wanted to upgrade my vIDM. But as you know my luck by now, I got an error during the upgrade. It was giving me a “Failed” status during the pre-check. Content blog article 1.First attempt There’s a KB article that describes the issue I’m having but it didn’t bring me the complete … More vIDM upgrade fails on precheck OVFENV
You can tell it’s my first year I have a homelab. I never thought of expiring certificates nor did I see any messages in the vCenter console about certificates expiring. My issue started with this “HTTP Status 500 – Internal Server Error” Now, how can you check the status of your certificates? You can run … More Expired vCenter certificates, how to get back in the game.
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