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vRSLCM 8.0 – Default Storage is too small

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PSA: The default deployment of vRealize LifeCycle Manager 8 configuration has a storage disk which is too small for the most tasks.

I found this issue after working with Ryan Johnson (https://twitter.com/tenthirtyam), who is working on the next VVD (https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Validated-Design/index.html) update.

VVD Design Decision Increase vRSLCM Storage Size 2

This issue

Once I migrated to the latest version, I tried to upgrade my vROPs and vRLI deployments to the latest version, to find I hit an odd error.

The first vROPs upgrade failed with “Unknown_System_Error”, below you can see the failed request, and then error message once I click into that request.

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VMware LifeCycle Manager – Migration error “SSH is not enabled or invalid” – LCMMIGRATION15102

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During my migration from vRSLCM 2.1 patch 2 to the latest version 8 release, I encountered the following error;

Error Code: LCMMIGRATION15102

vRSLCM Migration Failed with SSH is not enabled or Root credential invalid. Please make sure SSH is enabled or porvide the correct root credential by adding the credential to the home page locker app

Pretty obvious error, however the provided root credentials were correct, and I could use putty to connect to my existing LCM instance.

LCM Migration Error 1 15102

The fix

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VMware vRealize LifeCycle Manager 8 – Migration Process Screenshots

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VMware vRealize LifeCycle Manager 8 released earlier this week, 17th October 2019.

Note the official name and abbreviation, its a long one!

  • vRSLCM (vRealize Suite LifeCycle Manager)

You can find the supporting official documentation here;

What's New Blog Link:
What's New Blog Post

Download Link:
Product Download

Release Notes:
Release Notes

Documentation Link:
Resources
Migration Process

The best news about this release is the “easy installer“, which also allows you to migrate from older versions. In this post, I’ve documented the screenshots in steps for you, as I know many of you out there like to see the end to end process before you undergo an update yourself, so you know what to expect.

During this migration process the following will happen;

  1. New LCM virtual appliance deployed
  2. New IDM appliance deployed (unless you select to link to an existing environment)
  3. Existing LCM settings and content will be migrated
Migration Process Screenshots

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VMware Ports and Protocols – All in one place!

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Getting hold of all the VMware products various ports and protocols has sometimes come across like pulling blood from a stone.

However as announced yesterday at VMworld 2019, we have a new dedicated website just for this subject!

https://ports.vmware.com/

At a high-level, this system offers the following features:

  • A centralized system that is easy for our product teams to publish and modify and update the ports and protocols for each product.
  • Provides capability to customers with several Search filters on products, releases, port number, protocol, purpose and so on.
  • Download feature filtered data for offline view.

And for all you dark theme lovers out there, yes there is also a dark theme option!

VMware ports and protocols screenshot

Regards

Dean

Dean Lewis
VMware Cloud Foundation

VMware Cloud Foundation – SDDC Manager License key is not valid

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Quick blog post, there has been known issue in VMware Cloud Foundation 3.5, 3.7 & 3.8 that reports your SDDC manager license key as invalid as the below screenshot shows.

This has been listed in the “known issues” section of the release notes for each version, but there is no KB article for this.

Validation fails on SDDC Manager license.During the bringup process, the validation for the SDDC Manager license fails.

Workaround: Enter a blank license and proceed. You can enter the correct license value later in the process.

 

SDDC Manager License Key Not Valid

Regards

Dean

Dean Lewis