Author: Piotr Tarnawski
vSphere 7 – Certificate Management
With vSphere 7 the management of certificates became much easier. For starters the solution certificates are deprecated, being replaced under the hood with a less…
vCenter 7.0 Update 2 Upgrade Issue – Exception occurred in install precheck phase
vSphere 7.0. Update 2 is over 5GB large and promises a lot of new features. However upgrading your environment can proof difficult. Once I start…
How to Configuring Identity Federation to Use Windows ADFS
Ok, you want to use multi-factor authentication accessing your vCenter? With vSphere 7 you can configure ADFS (Active Directory Federation Services) ADFS is a software…
Before and After vCenter FQDN and IP (PNID) change – IMPORTANT!
So you wanna change FQDN or IP of your vCenter? Here is a couple things to consider: BEFORE CHANGE: If you run vCenter in HA…
vSphere 7 – How to change the FQDN and IP (PNID) Address of vCenter Server Appliance
There is a new feature in vSphere 7 allowing admins to change FQDN and IP of vCenter Server Appliance, the feature for which I personally…
vROps cert thumbprint and trust issue
After renewing certificate for one on my vCenters and refreshing connection with vROps, I was not able to re-connect NSX appliance. The error messages was:…
How to find object’s internal ID in vROps
Go to Administration tab and click on Inventory. Select from the inventory pane object you are interested in. 3. Click the “columns” icon toward the…
Transfer failed: IO error during transfer : java.io.EOFException: Unexpected EOF read on the socket
That error was a bummer. I was trying to deploy Dell SRS. When I received error: Transfer failed: IO error during transfer : java.io.EOFException: Unexpected…
vCenter Server Managed Object Browser (MOB) reports a 503 Service Unavailable error
If you cannot access the vCenter Server Managed Object Browser (MOB) at https://vCenterFQDN/mob/ and your browser shows this error: 503 Service Unavailable but all other services…
