If you are like me and you tried to perform an upgrade of vIDM 3.3.x to 3.3.4 you were most likely greeted by no network connectivity after upgrade with the following screen: If you made a backup of the network configuration this is where we would restore it. If not we can perform it manually by running /opt/vmware/share/vami/vami_config_net Press 6 and go through the screens to configure the ip ...
I wanted to go through the upgrade of vIDM 3.3.4 outside of lifecycle manager. I wanted to do it using the online upgrade via the console. Official documentation can be found here. First step is to log on to the console via the root credentials and upgrade the upgrade manager to 3.3.4 /usr/local/horizon/update/updatemgr.hzn updateinstaller Set the upgrade version that you are upgrading from in my case was 3.3.2 so i ran ...
In this post i will go over upgrading my 8.2 vRA appliance to 8.3. As a pre requirement we do need to have vRSLCM (vRealize Lifecycle Manager) upgraded to 8.3. Instructions can be found here To get started we can go to vRealize Lifecycle Manager -> Lifecycle Operations -> Settings -> Binary Mapping. (If you havent added your My VMware credentials you will need to do that first by going to vRealize Lifecycle Manager -> Lifecycle Operations -> Settings -> My VMware) ...
In this guide i will go over the steps of getting an existing 8.x vRSLCM appliance upgraded to the latest 8.3 release The first step is to lo in to vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager under the Lifecycle Operations section Go to settings -> System Upgrade Click on Check for Upgrade We can see that the check found a new version available for 8.3 Click on Upgrade ...
Assuming that you already downloaded the SaltStack Config binaries in this guide we will go over the deployment of SaltStack Config in an existing VRA 8.3 environment via Lifecycle Manager 8.3 Log on to Lifecycle Manager -> Go to environments, on the vRA environment click on the Menu and go to Add Product Select the checkbox next to vRealize Automation SaltStack Config and click Next Review the EULA, click on the agree box on the bottom of the page and click on next ...
In this guide i will go over the deployment of vRA 8.3 using the Easy Installer. The reason i like the Easy Installer is because it deploys everything that i need. vIDM, Lifecycle Manager as well as vRA. To get started we need to download the installer from here. Once downloaded mount the iso as a drive using your favorite tool or extract it as a archive using something like 7-zip Once mounted go to the CDROM in the mac directory if on mac or win32 if you are on windows. In here run the installer file ...
I wanted to give my users the capability to create a snapshot but limit them to only 1 snapshot and have a predefined description from the snapshot so i can know that it was taken from vRA. For the purpose of this i will be using a customer workflow in Orchestrator and Resource Actions and in Cloud Assembly. Since Orchestrator comes with a number of pre defined workflows in always like to jump start by find something thats similar with what im trying to do. For the purpose of this we will be using the Create Snapshot Workflow. ...
I recently ran in to a situation where one of the events in vCenter wasn’t showing up in Operations Manager Doing some research and i found this kb article: 65106 Basically theres a file called eventlist.txt under /usr/lib/vmware-vcops/user/plugins/inbound/vmwarevi_adapter3/conf/ on the master node so i logged on to master node via ssh and did vi /usr/lib/vmware-vcops/user/plugins/inbound/vmwarevi_adapter3/conf/eventlist.txt Comment out the event that we want to get alerts for and restart the service by running ...
I would try the restore options first. You can find instructions for the restore menu here If the recovery menu doesn’t work put the Mac mini in DFU mode by following the instructions I have here One the device is in DFU open Apple Configurator 2 (Mac Only sorry Windows folks). Make sure you are at least at version Version 2.13.2 Connect the USB-C cable to the Mac and the Mac mini to the port closest to the ethernet port ...
Disconnect the power cord from the Mac Mini. Plug USB-C/Thunderbolt cable into the USB-C port next to the ethernet port. Plug the other end into the Host Mac. While holding down the power button, connect the Mac Mini to power and continue to hold the power button for about 3-5 seconds You should now see the DFU logo on the Host Mac.