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
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
They told me to use GitHub for my Cloud Templates because it gives you the possibility to develop all your code in one place. From there, you can easily distribute your code to any vRA environment you want. But you’ll need to have internet access if you don’t use an internal GitHub. In this blog … More Setting up GitHub for vRA
I saw a post on Twitter, saying there was a new Fling out to monitor your vRealize Automation environment. So I needed to have it running in my homelab, you can find the link to the fling => HERE You can choose to install Docker Desktop on Windows or on Linux. But because I’m not … More Fling: vRealize Automation Health Monitor
A while ago I got a request from a customer to deploy CoreOS with vRA/vRO. They didn’t want to use the built-in vRA IPAM, but they wanted to set their own IP address with the use of advanced parameters. In this blog I’m going to explain how you can deploy CoreOS with setting advanced VM … More Deploy CoreOS with advanced VM parameters
A huge advantage of being a vExpert is that you have a lot of licenses at your disposal. So if you have the necessary hardware, you can test a lot of products. Today I’ll be deploying vROps / vRNI & Log insight with LCM. Content blog article Upload vRNI to LCM Create environments vRLI config … More Homelab: Installing vROps/vRNI & Log Insight
As you know from my previous post I was so eager to start deploying LCM & vRA that I downloaded the wrong version of the appliance. So currently I’m at 8.2 while the latest version is 8.3. In this article I will update LCM & vRA to 8.3 and VIDM will be upgraded to 3.3.4. … More Homelab: LCM & vRA upgrade
After installing vCenter, it was time to install LifeCycle manager and vRA. And I’m going to start directly with a note to myself => Make sure you download the latest version :-D. I was so enthusiastic to deploy LCM, that I just downloaded the first version I’ve encountered, which was 8.2. But the actual version … More Homelab: LCM & vRA setup
Till today I was able to run a basic setup on my developer workstation with 64GB of RAM. But once you want to start working with several products as vSphere, vRA & NSX it just doesn’t cut it anymore. So I finally decided to invest in a real homelab for further experimenting. However, the only … More My vSphere 7 Homelab
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