In Part 2 of this VCF 9 homelab series, I configure NSX and network connectivity for the environment. This walkthrough covers activating NSX on DVPGs, deploying the NSX Edge Cluster, configuring gateway uplinks, and adding static routing on the Tier-0 Gateway — including a deployment issue I encountered on the MS-A2 platform and how I resolved it. … More VCF 9 : post deployment – part 2
After deploying VMware Cloud Foundation 9, there are several critical steps before your environment is truly ready. In this post, I walk through registering your VCF instance, configuring the online depot, and deploying Operations for Logs and Networks — including a few licensing and deployment issues I ran into in my homelab. … More VCF 9: post deployment – part 1
Step-by-step guide to building a compact VCF 9 homelab: hardware BOM, licensing options, 2-node tweaks, ESXi install, and deployment tips. … More Homelab: VCF 9 in a box
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
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