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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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How to uninstall SimpliVity plug-in form vCenter

After successful decommission of HPE Simplivity, time came to uninstall vCenter plug-in. Here is my runlist: SSH to vCenter server If you do not see…

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How to add SimpliVity datastore to standard ESXi server

But why one may ask… I came across this issue once I was actually decommissioning SimpliVity cluster and I had to vMotion all Virtual Machines…

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