I recently upgraded a customer’s VCF test environment from 5.1.2.1 to 5.2.2.0. The SDDC Manager upgrade itself completed without problem, but when I moved on to Bundle Management to download the remaining update bundles, the list was empty and the UI only showed: If you search online, you’ll likely end up at Broadcom KB 409707,… Read More SDDC Manager 5.2.2.0 – “Retrieving available bundles failed”
After patching two vIDM clusters with CSP-97577 (and addressing the known issues), I encountered an unexpected alert in SDDC Manager the following day: “3 accounts have been disconnected. Visit Password Management page to take action.” Clicking Manage took me to the Password Management page, where all three vIDM nodes were listed as disconnected. My first… Read More SDDC Manager Flags Account(s) as Disconnected After vIDM CSP‑97577 Patch
During a bring-up of a small VCF 5.0 test-environment for a customer, with 4 hosts for MGMT-WLD and 4 hosts for VI-WLD, I hit a snag when creating the VI workload domain from SDDC Manager. The subtask “Validate Workload Domain Deployment Specification” failed. If you’re not interesting in going through some digging with me, you… Read More VCF 5.0 Workload Domain creation fails with “Validate Workload Domain Deployment Specification” subtask
I was doing a precheck before upgrading SDDC Manager v4.4.0.0-feb10 to v4.4.0.0-apr15 (drift bundle) and the precheck failed, as shown below in the screenshot I found this strange, as the backups are running fine to my sftp-backup host. After a little digging, I found out that there is a local backup user on the SDDC… Read More VCF precheck failures – Backup user password validity
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