Hey everyone, it’s been a while since I’ve posted something. But I was busy preparing myself for the VCAP deploy exam. With this post, I want to share how I prepared for the exam. Exam prep At first, I have to admit, that I really didn’t have any clue on where to start for this … More My preparation for the VCAP – DCV Deploy 2020 exam.
This post can help you, if you’re trying to join your vRA deployment to an Active Directory domain, but you receive below error. No, it’s not linked to a wrong userid/password, in my case it was linked to the fact that my Active Directory Netbios domain name was in lower case. Yes, I know what … More Change Netbios domain name to uppercase
You should have heard by now that today VMware announced some new features and versions over their complete product line.As a vExpert I had the privilege to join 3 exclusive blogger Early Access sessions where these announcements were pre-presented. In this blog I’m going to summarize some of these announcements. 1. Cloud automation and operations … More VMware’s announcement about App modernization in a multi-cloud world
Something new popped up during a manual deployment of vRA 7.4. The deployment failed with a time-out during the database creation. After restarting it a second time, the outcome was the same. I downloaded the scripts to manually create the database and to see where it exactly fails. If you need them, you can download … More vRA 7.4 deployment fails on database creation.
Hey everyone, this week I had an issue while deploying patch HF13 on a greenfield vRA 7.4 environment. My precheck failed, but when you opened the “Previous PreCheck Status” everything was green. This issue was resolved together with VMware support, so make sure that you have the same issue, before executing the steps below. Support … More vRA 7.4 pre-check fails for patch HF13
For me personally, it wasn’t really clear how you needed to reboot your vRA environment. Also when I followed the procedure I always had issues during startup.So to clarify the process, I’ll write an article about it, that always helps myself to better understand it (or at least I hope so 🙂 ) This is … More Rebooting your vRA environment
After you deployed your vRA environment you can start configuring it. However I would suggest to check your deployment first to see if everything is working fine. This is also a good way to determine a baseline of your environment. In case you missed my first part about the deployment you can find it here. … More Deploy vRealize Automation with Lifecycle Manager (part2) – check your deployment
Hey VMware enthusiasts, this post will show you how you can deploy vRA 7.4 with LCM 2.0Yes I know, I hear you thinking, why are you still using old versions while vRA 7.6 & LCM 2.1 is already out. Well due to a dependency on SRM I could only deploy vRA 7.4 and I wanted … More Deploy vRealize Automation with Lifecycle Manager (part 1)
Last week I needed a new virtual Microsoft cluster to install SQL on top of it. Something I already did quite a few times, but on that day I received the error “Incompatible device backing specified for device ‘0’”, when I tried to add the cluster disks to the second node. I was blown away, … More Incompatible device backing specified for device ‘0′
Today, in part 4 we will create our ESX’es. 1. Go to the tab VMs. You need to click on the “+ sign” if you don’t see a list of available VMs to add. 2. Click on the “+ sign” next to the “Empty ESX”. 3. In the general tab we update the Name & … More How to build my ESXi Home lab in the cloud (part4) – Deploy ESX’es
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