Quick post just to demonstrate how to get rid of a bundle stuck in download failed state, which happened to me on a VCF 4.2 setup. The error message was “Unable to download LCM bundle” in my case it was 4.3.0.0 Find the bundle ID by clicking on View Details. Here’s an example: psql -h […]
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Fixing JSON typos during initial SDDC bring-up process
During a VCF 4.0 SDDC bring-up installation I encountered something weird with one of the Edge VM VTEP IP settings. This is what my deployment JSON looked like: as you can see both edge VMs had an IP belonging to subnet 192.168.151.0/24 However Cloud Builder threw the following error up, summarised with message: VTEP gateway […]
Read More →Perform an Offline LCM Skip-Level Upgrade from VCF 4.0 to 4.1
VCF Skip-level upgrade is a fancy name and a bit misleading as well, in my opinion. You don’t skip any update, the tool simply takes care of all the bundles that go into SDDC Manager, after which you still have to manually apply the VMware bundles (so NSX, vCenter Server and ESXi). In the 4.0 […]
Read More →PowerVCF 2.1.1 Available
Sharing the news that PowerVCF 2.1.1 for VMware Cloud Foundation is now GA and available on GitHub here and on PSGallery here It supports Cloud Foundation 4.1 and introduces the following new cmdlets Category cmdlet Name Description Comment Users and Groups Get-VCFCredential Retrieves a list of credentials. UPDATE: Added support for the vRealize Suite credentials […]
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