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Troubleshooting vRA upgrade – Aria Automation Series

While upgrading vRealize to Aria Automation I ran into some blocking issues, I share in this article the KB and commands that helped me solve them and complete the upgrade. Pre Checks fail due to low disk space on LCM … Continue reading

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Upgrade vRA 8.11.2 to 8.18.0 – Aria Automation Series

And now comes the best part 🙂 As you have seen, the installation with Easy Installer is not complicated, the upgrade requires more attention. First you need to check the upgrade paths of the products involved and the relative compatibility … Continue reading

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Install vRealize Automation 8.11.2 – Aria Automation Series

This is the first article in a series on Aria Automation. Yes, the title talks about the installation of the 8.11.2 release, when the product was still called vRealize Automation. Why talk about such an old version? Because it often … Continue reading

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VCF 5.2 Administrator – my experience

The good and the bad of my job? You never stop learning 🙂 Keeping up with technology requires a lot of effort in terms of time and money, stay on track can prove stressful but challenging at the same time. … Continue reading

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Deploy NSX ALB for TKG Standalone

In previous articles we have seen how to create a standalone TKG cluster using NSX ALB as a loadbalancer, let’s see how to install and configure it for TKG. First we need to check which version is in compatibility matrix … Continue reading

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ESXi Network Tools

Sometimes it happens to troubleshoot an ESXi host for network problems. Over time I created a small guide to help me remember the various commands, I share it hoping it will be useful to everyone 🙂 esxcli network (here the … Continue reading

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Deploy TKG Standalone Cluster – part 2

Here is the second article, find the first one at this link. Now that the bootstrap machine is ready we can proceed with the creation of the standalone cluster. Let’s connect to the bootstrap machine and run the command that … Continue reading

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Deploy TKG Standalone Cluster – part 1

I had the pleasure of attending the recent Italian UserCon with a session on Tanzu Kubernetes Grid and the creation of a standalone management cluster. Out of this experience comes this series of posts on the topic. As mentioned above … Continue reading

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NSX-T Upgrade

The NSX-T installation series started with 3.1.x, it’s time to upgrade to 3.2 🙂 The upgrade is completely managed by NSX Manager, let’s see the process starting from the official documentation. The upgrade version will be 3.2.2, this is because … Continue reading

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Create host transport nodes

Last article in the series is about preparing esxi hosts to turn them into Trasnport Nodes. First you need to create some profiles to be used later for preparing hosts. From the Manager console, move to System -> Fabric -> … Continue reading

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