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Deploying vRA with vRealize Lifecycle Manager in a VCF 4 Environment

If you followed my previous posts Deploying the vRealize suite using VCF 4.0 and vRealize Lifeycycle Manager (vRSLCM) enable product dowloads you should now have vRA and vIDM already downloaded. In my previous post i went over the installation of vIDM which is a pre requisite for vRA. You can find the link here Next, we need to create a new environment that will be used to deploy vRA. For this we can go to Lifecycle Operations -> Create Environment. Fill in the necessary information and click next ...

September 13, 2020 · 2 min · Cosmin
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Deploying vIDM with vRealize Lifecycle Manager in a VCF 4 Environment

If you followed my previous posts Deploying the vRealize suite using VCF 4.0 and vRealize Lifeycycle Manager (vRSLCM) enable product dowloads you should now have vRA and vIDM already downloaded. Because im running on a deployment from VCF i can see that the datacenter was already provioned for me under under Home -> Lifecycle Operations -> Datacenters However it seems like my Environment is not completely configured. In order to configure we can go to Home -> Lifecycle Operations -> Create Environment ...

September 13, 2020 · 2 min · Cosmin
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X-Region Application Virtual Network is not created error

While trying to deploy vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager in VCF 4, i was prompted by an error X-Region Application Virtual Network is not created After doing some research i found out that the error is due to AVN not getting deployed part of the initial deployment. I remembered that VCF 4 doesnt actually require it so after i did some research i was able to find a kb article that allowed me to continue with my install. KB 78608 ...

September 13, 2020 · 1 min · Cosmin
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Deploying the vRealize suite using VCF 4.0

The official documentation for deploying the vRealize suite can be found here First step is to download the bundle by going to sddc-manager -> Repository -> Bundle management. Look for VMware Software Install Bundle - vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.1.0-16256499 After the download is complete we can go to Administration -> vRealize Suite and a deploy button should be available. If the deploy button is not available due to X-Region Application Virtual Network is not created errorplease follow the instructions found here: ...

September 13, 2020 · 1 min · Cosmin

Downloading specific VCF bundles

I wanted to reuse my VCF downloaded bundles on another SDDC Manager system so that i wont have to download it from internet again. Ive found an easy guide here in the VMware documentation. My goal was to download the specific bundle once and upload it on other SDDC Managers. The first command from SDDC manager was to list the bundles. The lcm bundle transfer utility can be found in /opt/vmware/vcf/lcm/lcm-tools/bin ...

September 6, 2020 · 2 min · Cosmin
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Properly cleaning up VCF downloads\bundles

With all the recent releases for VCF i noticed that my file system was getting full and once the updates are complete i wanted to reclaim all that used space. The first step was to identify the Bundle ID. We can find this by going to the bundle itself and checking out the details by clicking on View Details For example this specific Bundle ID is ee194251-9fe4-4729-9c29-ca5172acffc6 At this point i had to log in to the sddc manager and issue the following command: ...

August 31, 2020 · 1 min · Cosmin
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Upgrading VCF 4.0.1 to 4.0.1.1

This VMware Cloud Foundation Upgrade 4.0.1.0 to 4.0.1.1 contains critical bugs and security fixes. For more information, see https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Cloud-Foundation/4.0.1/rn/VMware-Cloud-Foundation-401-Release-Notes.html#4.0.1.1-Release For VCF on VxRail see https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Cloud-Foundation/4.0.1/rn/vmware-cloud-foundation-on-dell-emc-vxrail-19-release-notes.html#Patch%20Releases If you dont see any updates you can follow the first couple of steps in my other post here: http://13.90.130.7/2020/07/16/upgrading-vcf-4-0-to-vcf-4-0-1/ Once i logged on to my SDDC Manager i was able to see that na update is already available for me to download: All i had to do was click on my management domain SDDC-MGT and then go to the Update\Patches tab ...

August 30, 2020 · 2 min · Cosmin
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Upgrading VCF 4.0 to VCF 4.0.1

With the release of VCF 4.0.1 i wanted to go through the patch in my lab. The release notes can be found here: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Cloud-Foundation/4.0.1/rn/VMware-Cloud-Foundation-401-Release-Notes.html When i logged on to my SDDC Manager i noticed that there weren’t any updates available and i was prompted with an information bar To view available updates, Authorize My VMware Account. We can click directly on My VMware Account or go to Administration -> Repository Settings -> Authenticate ...

July 16, 2020 · 4 min · Cosmin