Well I wasn’t expecting this one! For me it’s an honor to be awarded a VMware vExpert 2017. I’m taking it as an encouragement to continue and provide great work for the community, with a busy schedule it’s really hard to keep up with updating the blog. As I think we are in a busy world, […]

While experimenting with the vSphere API using the Python pyvmomi SDK, I was wondering if there is any way to test guest credentials after I have reset a user password, so the main idea is to automate all the process of resetting the root password on a linux virtual machine. If you haven’t read my […]

A lot of things can cause this behavior, in my case, when I tried to create a Fabric Groups, the compute resources didn’t show! The logs in vRealize Automation appliance (v7.0.1) show the following error in Infrastructure => Monitoring => Log: This exception was caught: The attached endpoint ‘vCenter’ cannot be found. The first thing […]

I was experimenting with the VMware Web service SDK using pyVmomi and I got some error that need to be documented her. I’m using pyVmomi 6.0.0 in a vSphere 6 environment. The first one was an SSL warning when using pyVmomi to acquire a service instance, if you try to use SmartConnect you will get the […]

If you are having a problem using Winscp to upload files to the vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA), you should change some settings on the Winscp client or the VSCA appliance, it depend on what protocol you are using SFTP or SCP. Using SFTP: When opening a connection to VCSA, you get the following error: Host […]

It’s been almost a year that I’ve got my first VCAP-DCA certification, but instead of writing about how I prepared for it, I thought it will be more useful to write about a global strategy for every certification exam. I’m a big fan/believer on IT certifications, especially those lab based, because you can’t brain dump […]

Today I was experimenting with the manual installation process of vRealize Automation, which is used during a distributed deployment. The IaaS installer is used to install different components of the vRealize Automation platform in this mode. The image below, show different separate components for HA deployment. Image from http://pubs.vmware.com I got some error during the installation […]

Du to some hardware issue, I was in the process of reinstalling my Orchstrator appliance, this took me some time to identify the deployment steps, as I dont do this kind of setup on a daily basis. So I thought if will be useful for futur deployment, to note the major steps, every step is […]

Some small things can have a big impact on the entire infrastructure. Time synchronization is one of those things, and this is why VMware recommend configuring an NTP server for your vSphere infrastructure (and generally it’s recommended,best practice/required for all the datacenter components). In vSphere 6, before you can add an active directory as an […]