I had an issue with my VCSA today trying to upgrade to vCenter 6.7 Update 1 whereby the Management Interface Upgrade option was not detecting the update to upgrade the appliance to 6.7 Update 1. It was a similar issue to this VMwareKB, however the URL that is mentioned in that instance was already in […] Read More
Quick Fix: Terraform Plan Fails on Guest Customizations and VMware Tools
Last week I was looking to add the deployment of a local CentOS virtual machine to the Deploy Veeam SDDC Toolkit project so that it included the option to deploy and configure a local Linux Repository. This could then can be added to the Backup & Replication server. As part of the deployment I call […] Read More
Quick Fix – Backing up vCenter Content Library Content with Veeam
A question came up in the Veeam Forums this week about how you would backup the contents of a Content Library. As a refresher, content libraries are container objects for VM templates, vApp templates, and other types of files. Administrators can use the templates in the library to deploy virtual machines and vApps via vCenter. […] Read More
Veeam on the VMware Cloud Marketplace Protecting VMware Cloud on AWS Workloads
At VMworld 2018, myself and Michael Cade gave a session on automating and orchestrating Veeam on VMware Cloud on AWS. The premise of the session was to showcase the art of the possible with Veeam and VMware that resulted in a fully deployed and configured Veeam platform. We chose VMware Cloud on AWS for the […] Read More
VMworld 2018 Recap Part 2 – Community and Veeam Recap
VMworld 2018 has come and gone and after a couple of days recovery from the week that was, i’ve had time to reflect on what was a great week and an another great VMworld in Las Vegas. For me, the dynamic of what it is to be at a VMworld has changed. The week is […] Read More
VMworld 2018 Recap Part 1 – Major Announcement Breakdown!
VMworld 2018 has come and gone and after a couple of days recovery from the week that was, i’ve had time to reflect on what was a great week and an another great VMworld in Las Vegas. In this post I wanted to break down what I saw as the major announcements at the 2018 […] Read More
Creating a Single Host SDDC for VMware Cloud on AWS
While preparing for my VMworld session with Michael Cade on automating and orchestrating the deployment of Veeam into VMware Cloud on AWS, we have been testing against the Single Host SDDC that’s been made available for on demand POCs for those looking to test the waters on VMware Cloud on AWS. The great thing about […] Read More
Workaround – VCSA 6.7 Upgrade Fails with CURL Error: Couldn’t resolve host name
It’s never an issue with DNS! Even when DNS looks right…it’s still DNS! I came across an issue today trying to upgrade a 6.5 VCSA to 6.7. The new VCSA appliance deployment was failing with an OVFTool error suggesting that DNS was incorrectly configured.
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OVFTool[30736] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Curl_perform error code 6 (Couldn't resolve host name) OVFTool[14004] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Closing image source and targets OVFTool[14004] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] CURL error buffer: Could not resolve: tpm00-104.aperaturelabs.biz (Domain name not found) |
Initially I used the FQDN for source and target vCenter’s […] Read More
Released: vSAN 6.7 – HTML5 Goodness, Enhanced Health Checks and More!
VMware has announced the general availability of vSAN 6.7. As vSAN continues to grow, VMware are very buoyant about how it’s performing in the market. With some 10,000 customers at a run rate of over 600 million they claim to lead the HyperConverged market with a 32% market share. From my point of view it’s […] Read More
vExpert 2018 – The Value Remains!
After a longer than expected deliberation period the vExpert class of 2018 was announced late last Friday (US Time). I’ve been a vExpert since 2012 with 2018 marking my seventh year in the program. I’ve written a lot about the program over the past three or four years since it’s “perceived” value started to go […] Read More