Hellooo again! After the easy setup of TCE (see my blogpost here) it's time to deploy a simple small development Tanzu Standalone Cluster on vSphere. Let's do this! My Setup? My Setup looks as follows: vCenter 7.0.2Intel NUC NUC10i5FNH ESXi 7.0.1 with 8 Logical CPUs & 32 GB RAMMacBook Pro (x86; not M1) as Bootstrap … Continue reading TCE – How to deploy a Standalone Cluster on vSphere 7
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VIDM 3.3.3-4-5 – Quick Tip – VMware released Script for CVE-2021-44228 (Apache Log4j Vulnerability)
Hi! Over the past few days a critical vulnerability has been identified in the Apache Log4j module and lots of applications over the world are affected by this. The latest information regarding VMware Products which have been affected by this vulnerability can be found here: https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2021-0028.html For VMware vRealize Lifecycle Manager 8.x - Please check … Continue reading VIDM 3.3.3-4-5 – Quick Tip – VMware released Script for CVE-2021-44228 (Apache Log4j Vulnerability)
vRSLCM 8.x – Quick Tip – log4jfix.sh Fix Error: Binary Operator Expected – CVE-2021-44228
Hi! Over the past few days a critical vulnerability has been identified in the Apache Log4j module and lots of applications over the world are affected by this. The latest information regarding VMware Products which have been affected by this vulnerability can be found here: https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2021-0028.html For VMware Identity Manager 3.3.3 – 3.3.5 -Please check on our … Continue reading vRSLCM 8.x – Quick Tip – log4jfix.sh Fix Error: Binary Operator Expected – CVE-2021-44228
How to Install Tanzu Community Edition (TCE)
Hellooo again! It's time to play around with the Tanzu Community Edition (TCE)! I would love to use the Tanzu Platform to run my Containerized Applications in my Lab, however the footprint of real Tanzu Platforms (such as TKGI, TKGS, TKGm) is too high for my humble home lab. I managed to setup all these … Continue reading How to Install Tanzu Community Edition (TCE)
TKGm – MacOs Docker Desktop 4.3.0 : Unable to Create Bootstrap Cluster: Failed to create Kind Cluster – Exit Status 1 – cgroupsv2 vs cgroupsv1
Helloooo! In the past I've been playing around with PKS (nowadays called TKGI) and TKGS (Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Service - Tanzu Natively integrated in vSphere 7.0). Today I wanted to play around with the plain TKG Multi-cloud (TKGm) in my vSphere 7.0 environment. Overview IntroductionProblem & TroubleshootingSolution Introduction My setup looks like this: vCenter 7.0.2TKGm … Continue reading TKGm – MacOs Docker Desktop 4.3.0 : Unable to Create Bootstrap Cluster: Failed to create Kind Cluster – Exit Status 1 – cgroupsv2 vs cgroupsv1
vRSLCM 8.x – Quick Tip – Change vRSLCM Certificate
Hi, Welcome to our blog! Today I want to quickly share how you can change the Certificate of vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager (vRSLCM). Let's get started! Prerequisites The Private Key - If you have generated a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) via vRSLCM for example, you can find the Private Key in this CSR file by … Continue reading vRSLCM 8.x – Quick Tip – Change vRSLCM Certificate
vRA 8.x – Unable to sync the status of this resource (Custom Resources)
Hi, The other day I was working for a customer and encountered an issue with one of our deployed Custom Resources. Basically we have created a Custom Resource to support the planned scheduling of increasing Citrix Terminal Servers. This Custom Resource in vRA is linked to a vRO Dynamic Type. Problem Our Custom Resource 'Citrix … Continue reading vRA 8.x – Unable to sync the status of this resource (Custom Resources)
How to install Nexus Repository OSS on CentOS 7
Hi! Today I wanted to share some simple installation steps on installing Nexus Repository OSS on CentOS 7. Nexus Repository OSS is a free, open source artifact repository with universal format support provided by Sonatype. More information can be found here. Goal In my case I want to configure a Proxy Repository for Docker Container … Continue reading How to install Nexus Repository OSS on CentOS 7
VIDM 3.3.x – Quick Tip – Lost your vApp Properties on your VIDM VMs?
Hellooo! The other day I was upgrading VIDM (now called Workspace One Access) from 3.3.2 (SLES based) to VIDM 3.3.4 (Photon OS Based) and during the upgrade all my VIDM appliances lost their IP Configuration / Network Settings. I was performing this upgrade as part of the vRealize Automation 8.1 Upgrade to vRealize Automation 8.4. … Continue reading VIDM 3.3.x – Quick Tip – Lost your vApp Properties on your VIDM VMs?
vRA 8.x – Quick Tip – How to access embedded PostgreSQL DB
Hi! Here is another one in our Quick Tip series: accessing the Embedded PostgreSQL Database in vRealize Automation 8.x. SSH to your vRA appliance as rootOnce logged in, run the following command vracli dev psql <db-name>Examples:vracli dev psql catalog-dbvracli dev psql vco-dbThis will automatically log you in as the postgres user I the pod hosting the specified … Continue reading vRA 8.x – Quick Tip – How to access embedded PostgreSQL DB