Author: Piotr Tarnawski
How to renew certificates for vCenter (6.x)
If you have not upgraded yet to vSphere 7 and your vCenter certificate is about to expire or already expired, here is an runlist how…
How to export certificate from Certification Path
This article for a person who needs the whole chain for a certificate. Open certificate (double click on it) Go to Certification Path tab Double…
PowerShell to Upgrade the Virtual Distributed Switch (VDS)
After upgrading vSphere to version 7 there is one more component needs to be upgraded. VMware Virtual Distributed Switch (VDS). NOTE: Prior VDS upgrade all…
VMware vCenter Server 7.0 Update 2c, VMware ESXi 7.0 Update 2c – overview.
Discontinuation of Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 1.2 in a future major vSphere release: VMware intends in a future major vSphere release to discontinue support of TPM…
Data Retriever is not initialized yet. Please wait. – How to replace expired internal certificate in vRealize Operations Manager
You may not know but vROps has an internal certificate that may expire. If you won’t catch it on time, you will be in the…
vROps 8.5 Hot Fix! Fixing EP Ops adapter, SNMP Trap Plugin, memory heap size and many more!
After upgrading my vRealize Operations Manager to 8.5 I received an alert stating that: In Redescribe section I saw that EP Ops Adapter has status…
Upgrade vRealize Operations 8.x to newest 8.5 version
It is time to upgrade vROps to the newest version. You can perform in-place upgrade from any 8.x version. I strongly recommend to run per-upgrade…
Security Advisory VMSA-2021-0018
Yesterday VMware released IMPORTANT Security Advisory for vRealize Operations Manager, Please see below information on VMSA-2021-0018, Important Notes, and Security Patch PAK to address this Security Advisory: Security Advisory VMSA-2021-0018 – VMware vRealize Operations…
VxRail: bmc: firmware test timeout. check platform service. How to check PTAgent status.
Before VxRail upgrade I run VxVerify tool and one of the errors was: bmc: firmware test timeout. check platform service. You can read all about…
Migrating from SRM 8.3 Windows to SRM 8.4 Virtual Appliance
It is time to leave Windows machines and change your SRM to Virtual Appliance. SRM 8.4 runs on Photon OS and it is deployed as…













