Quick blog post, purely as a memo note to myself (aka my own KB how-to articles). Issue: the COMMISSION HOSTS button in SDDC Manager is greyed out; therefore it’s impossible to add any new host SSH into SDDC Manager, first as vcf then elevate to root (su -) Connect to Postgres with the following commands: […]
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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 […]
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The following steps are applicable to VMware Cloud Foundation 3.x and not 4.x and I’m also assuming you are familiar with databases and CLI file editing on Linux. SDDC Manager 3.x uses PostgreSQL to store all information related to the SDDC deployment. SSH to SDDC Manager as vcf user and switch to root. PostgreSQL by […]
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In this article I’m going to demonstrate the steps required to perform an incremental online LCM update from VMware Cloud Foundation 4.0 to 4.0.1, specifically on the management workload domain. VCF 4.0.1 released 25/06/2020 and this is release notes link Note that I used the word incremental to identify that LCM is going to apply […]
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