Author: Piotr Tarnawski
How to check if STS certificate is about to expire or expired already
By now you should know what to do if your STS certificate expire, but if you have been caught on this one here are simple…
How to renew certificate for existing KMS setup
NOTE: KMS server root certificate (which per procedure should have been uploaded and trusted for vCenter to trust KMS) has long validity period and should…
How to connect vCenter with external KMS
NOTE: For example here I choose Vault Enterprise KMIP as a default Key Provider for VM encryption, vSAN encryption and Host Attestation Prerequisites: Create a…
How to run the VxRail Verify tool (VxVerify)
Dell is recommending to run VxVerify tool before applying update. It is tool for the pre-upgrade health checking of nodes and system VM by automatically…
vROps – how to change Hostname, IP, or DNS
I was deploying new vROps 8.4. After deployment I could not connect my vCenter by hostname, only by IP, so that indicated that DNS was…
How to use req.conf file
If you need to generate CSR file, however like for example for vROps you need to use OpenSSL, but you need to add SAN or…
vROps – How to replace certificate
As far as version 8.4 I could not find CSR generator, so to generate CSR one need to use OpenSSL If you don’t have OpenSSL…
VMware default usernames and passwords
Here is a handy list of default password for VMware products: Product Username Password vCenter Appliance root vmware vCenter Application root 123456 Discovery Manager cli…
VAMI update failed due to /storage/log partition full
Once I tried to update vCenter 6.5 to remediate Security Advisory VMSA-2021-0010 I spotted that health status shows Warning and the cause for it was…
How to get VMware logs the “smart way”
GUI is a great tool but sometimes it simply does not work. The usual way to get logs is: Login to vCenter. Under Inventory Lists,…
