Notes from a Virtualization Consultant
I was updating the certificate on a vIDM from vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager (vRSLCM) in my lab , but it did not work as expected, when it came to updating the authentication on the vRealize Automation n(vRA) it return error LCMVRAVACONFIG590008. I could not find any error with the new certificate so this was strange,…
If you do not use certificate from a internal Certificate Authority (CA) for the products deployed by the vRealize Suite Life Cycle Manager, you normally have to accept that this is an insecure connection in the Browser. I think it’s a bad thing to learn users/admins to do this in the browser, because then they…
VMware has released vRealize Automation 8.6.2, vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.6.2 and VMware Identity Manager 3.3.6. vRealize Automation 8.6.2 includes one of my the features request, that I have been asking for, for some time, this is that Approvals policies now can be assign to “AD groups”. vRealize Automation 8.6.2 this also includes vRealize Automation…
With the latest version of vRealize Suite Life Cycle Manager (vRSLCM) it’s possible to do vertical scale of more of the products. One of my customer wanted to do a vertical scale of there vIDM version 3.3.4, but it that failed wit error code: LCMVIDM72239 in stage 9 “Disk Partition…..”. It turned out that the…
I have just been doing a upgrade of VMware Identity Manager (vIDM) 3.3.3 to 3.3.4 from the vRealize Suite Life Cycle Manager (vRSLCM) 8.3. After the upgrade the vIDM appliance from vRSLCM it failed after a long wait, looking at the vIDM machine i could see that the Elasticsearch service did not run. After reverting…
I was deploying a new test environment of vRA in the Test/Demo lab, from vRealize LifeCycle Manager, but when doing this i was getting the error LCMVRAVACONFIG590008. After looking in the logs on the vRealize Lifecycle Manager logs, I found this in the log file: /var/log/vrlcm/vmware_vrlcm.log 2020-07-24 08:36:18,305 [ERROR] Exception while setting vidm. Traceback (most…
VMware has released vRealize Network Insight 4.1, NSX Data Center for vSphere 6.4.5 and Identity Manager 19.03. vRealize Network Insight 4.1 What’s new: vRealize Network Insight supports VMware NSX-T Data Center VMware NSX-T Data Center version 2.4. Supports converged NSX Manager appliance which merges policy, management, and central control services on a cluster of nodes. Features like…
VMware have release the new versions of VMware Workstation Pro 15, Fusion 11, Identity Manager 3.3, vRealize Network Insight 3.9 and ThinApp 5.2.4. VMware Workstation 15 Pro What’s new: New Guest operating systems support Windows 10 1803 Ubuntu 18.04 Fedora 28 RHEL 7.5 CentOS 7.5 Debian 9.5 OpenSuse Leap 15.0 FreeBSD 11.2 ESXi 6.7 DirectX 10.1 DirectX…
VMware has released new patches for ESXi 6.5/6.0/5.5, VMware Identity Manager 3.2 and App Volumes 2.13.3. ESXi 6.5, 6.0 and 5.5 patches These patches are the new Intel CPU microcode patch, and a VMware patches for Spectre/Meltdown. VMware KB for the 6.5 patch: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/52456 VMware KB for the 6.0 patch: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/52451 VMware KB for the 5.5 patch: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/52446 Notes: Remember that guest…
This week VMware has released new version of different product in there Horizon Suite. VMware Horizon View 7.3 What's new: Horizon Connection Server Horizon Help Desk Tool View application and process names and resource use within a virtual or published desktop to identify which applications and process are using up machine resources. View event log…