Mysterious vSAN datastore alert – and the relationship between First-Class disks and Cloud-Native storage

Thefluffyadmin cloud-native, storage, Troubleshooting, vmware August 27, 2021

Aug 27th, Robert Kloosterhuis ----------- I ran across an interesting 6.7 vSAN alarm today, that baffled me. This is vSphere 6.7 Update 3L (6.7.0.46000) Improved virtual disk infrastructure namespaces storage policy (alarm) So this is referring to the config setting we can find under Storage --> vSAN Datastore object --> Configure -- General This
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vIDM Elasticsearch failing due to idm plugin messing with node count – hard fix

Thefluffyadmin Troubleshooting, vmware March 29, 2021

Robert Kloosterhuis, march 29, 2021 I ran into a strange issue with a vIDM 3.3.2.0 appliance today (vIDM , or 'VMware Identity Manager' , is now called 'VMware Workspace ONE Access') The issue I had involved a single-node deployment. This is an important detail. vIDM can be clustered, and that
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vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager content management cannot use a proxy server #vRSLCM

Thefluffyadmin Troubleshooting, vexpert, vmware, vRSLCM April 3, 2019

The short of it: vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager (vRSLCM/LCM) can use a proxy to get to MyVMware and download patches and binaries, this works fine But LCM content management, is largely backed by built-in vRO workflows, and as of current version (2.0, patch3), these can NOT work with a proxy. As an aside: While the
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Some notes on the -hostname- field, when installing #vIDM with #vRSLCM

Thefluffyadmin Troubleshooting, vexpert, vmware, vRSLCM March 17, 2019

When I had written my previous post on the vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager, and integrating vIDM with it, I thought I had run up against the most obvious errors I could. See my previous post about this here: Adding Active Directory Integration to #vRealize Lifecycle Manager 2.0 Unfortunately, I ran into an even more basic
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Migrated to #vSphere 6.5 into an unsupported #SSO topology? – This is how we got out of it! #vExpert

Thefluffyadmin Troubleshooting, vexpert, vmware June 11, 2018

Background We recently migrated a number vCenter installs from 5.5 on Windows, to the 6.5U1 VCSA These installs where in pairs, 1 vCenter per datacenter/MER, each their own seperate SSO install (on the same server). We did not believe at the time, that these SSO installations had any relationship with each other. The reason we
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