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How to specify your vSphere virtual machine resources when deploying Red Hat OpenShift

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When deploying Red Hat OpenShift to VMware vSphere platform, there are two methods: User Provisioned Infrastructure (UPI) Installer Provisioned Infrastructure (IPI) There are several great blogs covering both options and deployment methods. In this blog, we are going to use the IPI method but customize the settings of our Virtual Machines that are deployed setting … Continue reading How to specify your vSphere virtual machine resources when deploying Red Hat OpenShift →

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A guide to vSphere with Tanzu Kubernetes – Day 2 Operations for the VI Admin

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Intro This blog post is an accompaniment to the session “vSphere with Tanzu Kubernetes – Day 2 Operations for the VI Admin” created by myself and Simon Conyard, with special thanks to the VMware LiveFire Team for allowing us access to their lab environments to create the technical demo recordings. You can see the full … Continue reading A guide to vSphere with Tanzu Kubernetes – Day 2 Operations for the VI Admin →

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vCenter patching failed to update the VAMI build “Got exception while trying to save metadata to a file: Unexpected content in /etc/issue file”

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The issue After patching/upgrading your vCenter 6.7 appliance, the vCenter UI shows the latest build number, but in VAMI you see the older VAMI build number. To troubleshoot upgrade issues, you can look at the following file; /var/log/vmware/software-packages.log In the log, you see the following error; INFO:vmware.vherd.base.software_update:Setting appliance version to 6.7.0.31000 build 13643870 ERROR:vmware.vherd.base.software_update:Got exception … Continue reading vCenter patching failed to update the VAMI build “Got exception while trying to save metadata to a file: Unexpected content in /etc/issue file” →

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Using the vSphere CSI Driver with OpenShift 4.x and VSAN File Services

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You may have seen my blog post “How to Install and configure vSphere CSI Driver on OpenShift 4.x“. Here I updated the vSphere CSI driver to work the additional security constraints that are baked into OpenShift 4.x. Since then, once of the things that has been on my list to test is file volumes backed … Continue reading Using the vSphere CSI Driver with OpenShift 4.x and VSAN File Services →

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How to backup vRealize Automation 8.x using Veeam

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In this blog post I am going to dissect backing up vRealize Automation 8.x using Veeam Backup and Replication. – Understanding the backup methods – Performing an online backup – Performing an offline backup Understanding the Backup Methods Reading the VMware documentation around this subject can be somewhat confusing at times. And if you pay … Continue reading How to backup vRealize Automation 8.x using Veeam →