Problem A default gateway on the IP Pool servicing the NSX controllers had been mistyped during installtion. I needed to change this so my montioring system could route traffic to the 3 controllers. Versions: NSX .6.4.3 vCenter 6.7 Caveats NTP Server was on a different subnet so current controllers could not route to Read More…
Author: Jordansphere
I currently work for an ISP on the South coast as a Senior Engineer. I mainly spend my time maintaining the Cloud. CCNA, VCP4/5, VCP-Cloud
vCloud Director 9.5 – The VCD Entity Does Not Exist
Problem When logged in as a vCloud Sys Admin in the Tenant (HTML5) interface and trying to delete any ISO from the Media section in vCloud Director 9.5 the following error appeared: Resolution VMware have identified this as a bug and are working on a patch. The workaround is to login in as an orginization Read More…
Backup Postgres DB and Rotate using Logrotate – CentOS
Here is a rudimentary script to backup a specific Postgres DB. Logrotate then takes care of the log rotation. As you'll see below we will keep 7 days worth of compressed files. #! /bin/bash # This script is called from logrotate /etc/logrotate.d/my-dumps # It backs up myDB every evening and logrotate takes care of compression Read More…
Install NRPE on CentOS 7
1) Install required packages yum -y install wget openssl-devel 2) Download latest NRPE agent cd /tmp wget http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagiosxi/agents/linux-nrpe-agent.tar.gz 3) Unzip NRPEagent tar xzf linux-nrpe-agent.tar.gz 4) Install agent cd linux-nrpe-agent ./fullinstall You will get asked which hosts to add. include your Nagios Server here In this case my Nagios server is 10.0.0.50 6) Read More…
Test Outbound Connectivity on VCSA using Telnet
By default, telnet is not installed in the VCSA appliance. In fact its not installed in most VMware appliances. However there is a work around to test connectivity by using CURL Syntax: curl -v telnet://host:port Here are a couple of examples: curl -v telnet://www.google.co.uk:443 curl -v telnet://my.amqpserver:5672
Apply New Certificate to Tenant App Portal for vCloud Director
Here are the steps to apply a new certificate to the tenant portal app (1.2.0) 1. Login into the appliance using the vsphere Web Client using the root username Note: I could not find any documentation on what the root password was so I had to reset the password by entering the GRUB menu.and booting Read More…
Install Postgres 10 for vCloud Director 9.5
Here are the steps to install Postgres 10 on CentOS 7 Spec: OS: CentOS 7 DB: Postgres 10.x RAM: 16GB vCPU: 4 HDD: 100 GB OS Installation: Use Guided GUI installation. Select to partition manually so that all data is on /root LVM. Read More…
Migrate vCloud Director Database from MSSQL to Postgres
As vcloud director 9.5 is the last iteration to support MS SQL we decided to migrate the database to Postgres Here are the instructions to migrate the database Pre-requisites 1) Snapshot all Cells 2) Snapshot MSSQL DB 3) Backup MSSQL DB Procedure: 4) Shutdown all cells service vmware-vcd stop 5) On Read More…
Configure Load Balancer on NSX Edge
The following guide describes how to set up LB on an NSX 6.4.1 Edge 1. Click Manage tab -> Load Balancer -> Edit -> Global Configuration -> Enable Load Balancer -> Enable Logging 2. Under Pools -> Select + (sign) -> {Enter details like below} 3. Click + (sign) -> {Enter details like Read More…
Adding vNICs in UCS Causes vmnic Reorder in ESXi 6.5
Problem I added two new vNics to UCS. When I rebooted I realised there was something wrong. One of my iSCSI paths was down and one of the new vmnics wasnt working at all. Troubleshooting After much investigation it appeared that the NICS in the ESXI had been re-ordered. Looking at the UCS I Read More…
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