Ever entered a typo when building a vCenter, and redeploying seemed the easiest way forward? Or just want to decommission and old vCenter from an SSO domain? Well its not as easy as powering off the VM and deleting it. At least not unless you want annoying pop errors when you log into your remaining... Continue Reading →
Pro Tip: Removing Phantom Entries from vSphere Licensing
Sometimes, if you've killed a vSphere object in a less than 100% graceful fashion, you end up with phantom entries in your license screen. In this case we have a phantom vCenter, but it could equally be an ESXi host etc. There are a couple of ways to tackle this, but I used JXplorer (http://jxplorer.org/downloads/).... Continue Reading →
Pro Tip: NSX Distributed Firewall Rule locked you out of vCenter?
Just recently, while manually installing VVD 4.3 on VxRail I ran into an issue whereby I managed to lock myself out of vCenter due to an errant firewall rule. It's easy to do. When setting up a Security Group and adding an IP set, you need first select the IP set to add, then click to... Continue Reading →