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- [Resolve SSP 5.1.1 Errors During NSX Onboarding](https://vronin.nl/nsx-t/resolve-ssp-5-1-1-errors-during-nsx-onboarding/) - During the deployment of SSP (Security Services Platform) 5.1.1, I ran into an issue while onboarding the NSX instance. This error means that there is still an old SSP installation onboarded in NSX. In my lab environment this was the case and the old SSP installation got corrupted due to storage issues and could not
- [vSAN HCL DB Out of Date - Offline Update](https://vronin.nl/vsan/vsan-hcl-db-out-of-date-offline-update/) - During the upgrade pre-check test of the Workload domain I got the following error: vSAN HCL DB Out of Date. Because my SDDC manager has no direct internet connection I needed to get the file on my jump host. This can be done by browsing to https://partnerweb.vmware.com/service/vsan/all.json and copy the entire content and create a
- [Quick Fix - Found zero ssd devices for SSD cache tier](https://vronin.nl/vsan/quick-fix-found-zero-ssd-devices-for-ssd-cache-tier/) - When i added a host to an existing vSAN cluster via the SDDC manager the task failed with the following error: "Found zero ssd devices for SSD cache tier" To quickly fix this we need to set the cache disk on the ESXi host to SSD, you can check the current value with the vdq
- [VCF 5.0 - Remove vSAN datastore after VCF deployment failed](https://vronin.nl/vcf/vcf-5-0-remove-vsan-datastore-after-vcf-deployment-failed/) - After a failed deployment of VCF 5.0, i was left with a vSAN Datastore on the first host in the cluster, and this was blocking a retry of the deployment. In this state the vsanDatastore is unable to be deleted. If I try to delete it, the option is greyed out. To delete the datastore
- [Aria Ops for Networks deployment fails from Aria Suite LifeCycle Manager.](https://vronin.nl/nsx-t/aria-ops-for-networks-deployment-fails-from-aria-suite-lifecycle-manager/) - In this blog post I go through an issue I had during a new vRNI through vRLCM environment deployment. I will show the issue and how to fix it.
- [VCF 5.0 - Error connecting to ESXi Host SSL certificate common name doesn't match ESXi FQDN.](https://vronin.nl/vcf/vcf-5-0-error-connecting-to-esxi-host-ssl-certificate-common-name-doesnt-match-esxi-fqdn/) - During a new lab deployment of VCF 5.0 i ran in to an small issue running the validation. I deployed the hosts up front and made them available and unique before the validation. ran the following command to regenerate the certs and restart the services: /sbin/generate-certificates /etc/init.d/hostd restart && /etc/init.d/vpxa restart Next i wanted to
- [VCF 5.0 - Retry Bring up fails on Generate input for SSH Keys](https://vronin.nl/vcf/vcf-5-0-retry-bring-up-fails-on-generate-input-for-ssh-keys/) - After a Failed VCF bring-up, I wanted to retry the bring-up. Luckily the error I encountered before was resolved but again I ran in to an issue during the retry. Now the issue was with the import of the SSH Keys Going through some internal resources i stumbled upon the solution, since this is a
- [VCF 5.0 LAB Deployment Issue - Failed to migrate vmnics of  ESXi host to Distributed vSwitch](https://vronin.nl/vcf/vcf-5-0-lab-deployment-issue-failed-to-migrate-vmnics-of-esxi-host-to-distributed-vswitch/) - During my latest deployment of VCF in my lab environment I ran in to the following issue. Failed to migrate vmnics of host 192.168.11.12 to DVS sfo-m01-cl01-vds01 . Reason: Failed to migrate vmknic vmk0 to DvSwitch 50 22 42 8c d5 a1 d4 8f-6d 9e 8a 1e 93 ac 5b 9d Failed to migrate vmnics
- [Replace NSX-T expiring localmanager and globalmanager self-signed Certificates.](https://vronin.nl/nsx-t/replace-nsx-t-expiring-localmanager-and-globalmanager-self-signed-certificates/) - How to replace expiring NSX-T Local Manager and Global Manager certificates in a federated environment by self-signed certificates
- [Compute Manager not visible in NSX after Upgrade of the 3 Manager Appliances](https://vronin.nl/nsx-t/compute-manager-not-visible-in-nsx-after-upgrade-of-the-3-manager-appliances/) - After a successful upgrade of NSX, after the last step the upgrade of the management plane the compute manager disappeared, let's see how we can fix that! When i try to add the vCenter it says it is already registered, let's check with the API. First do a API GET in Postman to get the
- [Test Case - Cloud Director NSX-T Role Based Access](https://vronin.nl/nsx-t/test-case-cloud-director-nsx-t-role-based-access/) - Test Case: Cloud Director Tenant (Organization) Granular Role Based Access Control and separation of rights can be configured between multiple teams within that Organization.
- [Cloud Director NSX-T - Tenant Design Scenarios with 2 Edge Gateways](https://vronin.nl/nsx-t/cloud-director-nsx-t-tenant-design-scenarios-with-2-edge-gateways/) - Cloud Director NSX-T - Tenant Design Scenarios with 2 Edge Gateways
- [Exam Review CEH v12](https://vronin.nl/other/exam-review-ceh-v12/) - My Exam review and preparation for Certified Ethical Hacker v12 EC-Council
- [Design Consideration - For Bare Metal Edge with 4 PNIC in a NSX-T Federated Environment](https://vronin.nl/nsx-t/design-consideration-for-baremetal-edge-with-4-pnic-in-a-nsx-t-federated-environment/) - During a failover test with the Bare Metal Edges we ran into an issue when pulling the plug on 1 of the TOR switches. (TOR-LEFT). During that test all BGPs on both Bare Metal edges went down. So no North-South routing anymore :( Edge Setup: The Bare Metal Edges were configured following the design guidelines
- [NSX-T IP Discovery & Realized Bindings Issues](https://vronin.nl/nsx-t/nsx-t-ip-discovery-realized-bindings-issues/) - One of the is issues was about the IP Bindings of a VM to a segment. In our case a tenant manually edited the Ipv4 address on the network Interface of the VM, and after this the connection to this VM dropped.
- [RTEP down in Global Manager NSX-T UI](https://vronin.nl/nsx-t/rtep-down-in-global-manager-nsx-t-ui/) - A while ago we ran into an issue after we did the upgrade from NSX-T version 3.1.3.6 to 3.1.3.7. In the alarms section at one Site. Still wanted to do a post about the issue and the solution/workaround: Time to check the connection!Login to the Edges and grap the VRF id of the RTEP TUNNEL.
- [Upload MUB file fails with ansible-for-nsxt](https://vronin.nl/nsx-t/upload-mub-file-fails-with-ansible-for-nsxt/) - While trying to upgrade the NSX-T enviroment via ansible we stumbled upon the issue that we couldn't upload the mub file to the NSX Manager. Ansible Task: - name: Upload upgrade file to NSX-T manager coordinator node from file vmware.ansible_for_nsxt.nsxt_upgrade_upload_mub: hostname: "{{ coordinator }}" username: "{{ username }}" password: "{{ password }}" validate_certs: False file:
- [VMware Usagemeter issue sending data after upgrade to 4.5.0.1](https://vronin.nl/other/vmware-usagemeter-issue-sending-data-after-upgrade-to-4-5-0-1/) - This week i upgraded an usagemeter from 4.5.0.0 to 4.5.0.1 with the inplace upgrade method.Usage Meter 4.5.0.1 patch release rolled out on May 23rd. This release addresses a major issue found in Usage Meter 4.5. For more information i refer to the following blog: https://blogs.vmware.com/cloudprovider/2022/05/usage-meter-4-5-0-1-why-is-it-needed-and-how-to-upgrade-to-it.html The release notes can be found at: https://docs.vmware.com/en/vCloud-Usage-Meter/4.5.0.1/rn/vmware-vcloud-usage-meter-4501-release-notes/index.html We followed
- [vSAN 7.0 Resync Throttling](https://vronin.nl/vsan/vsan-7-0-resync-throttling/) - When we upgraded to vSAN 7, immediately we faced an annoying error message in Skyline health which complained about the Resync Throttling. This setting is deprecated since 6.7 and can only be set via Powercli, below a few lines of code to set the value to 0 to all Hosts in the cluster. When the
- [NSX-T Upgrade Issue - Blank Screen in UI](https://vronin.nl/nsx-t/nsx-t-upgrade-issue-blank-screen-in-ui/) - During an upgrade of NSX-T from 3.1.3.6 to 3.1.3.7 i came across an issue in the UI.When i clicked the update button, the screen was blank and was not showing any data, sometimes after a wait of half an hour or more the screen came through and i could proceed with the upgrade. This is
- [Configure NSX-T Baremetal Edge Node redundant MGMT plane](https://vronin.nl/nsx-t/configure-nsx-t-baremetal-edge-node-redundant-mgmt-plane/) - Recently i had to reconfigure the NSX-T Baremetal edge Nodes which were configured with only 1 NIC for the management plane to a more redundant setup
- [Resize a NSX-T EdgeVM](https://vronin.nl/nsx-t/resize-a-nsx-t-edgevm/) - The current NSX version has 4 Form Factors, from Small to Extra Large. In this post we are going from a medium sized Edge Node VM to a Large Sized Edge Node VM.
- [NSX-T Edge Datapath Mempool Usage Issue on EdgeVM](https://vronin.nl/nsx-t/nsx-t-edge-datapath-mempool-usage-issue-on-edgevm/) - ecently we ran into an issue with our edge VMs on NSX-T 3.1.0.0, the datapath mempool usage for pfstate3 was at a critical high level (100%) and the edge VMs were dropping packets.
- [NSX-V not showing virtual wires in vCenter](https://vronin.nl/nsx-v/nsx-v-is-not-showing-virtual-wires-in-vcenter/) - Today i ran into an issue with an setup of NSX-V version 6.4.1. As this is the second time i run into this error let's document it for future purpose. Issue: Viewing logical switches in the vSphere Web Client displays the error, in vCenter on the Networking & Security Tab under Logical Switches the list

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