vCenter HA eliminates a single point of failure of our vCenter by enabling the vCenter in a cluster mode. The process documented below is to enable vCenter HA (VCHA) on an IBM Cloud VMware Solutions – Dedicated instance running in IBM Cloud Classic Infrastructure. Prerequisites At least three hosts are required…

Recently I had a client I was working with who required their vCenter to be updated. However, this vCenter had absolutely no Internet access, so I could not connect to updates either directly or via proxy. So how do we update a vCenter like this? The vCenter patch .iso to…

NSX-T Upgrade Upgrading of NSX-T is a client responsibility and should be done on a schedule as defined by the client. To perform an upgrade several two tasks need to be performed. They are: Download the update bundle from VMware. Perform Upgrade Step One: Download the update bundle from VMware.…

With the log4j vulnerability going around, making sure your systems are up to date with patches has never been more critical. While IBM Cloud offers an incredible service with its VMware Solutions, one of the key client responsibilities is to ensure that all systems and applications remain up to date.…

With the log4j vulnerability going around, making sure your systems are up to date with patches has never been more critical. While IBM Cloud offers an incredible service with its VMware Solutions, one of the key client responsibilities is to ensure that all systems and applications remain up to date.…

I was working with a client on setting up a proxy VM so that their VMware Lifecycle Manager could access updates. I got the proxy completely setup and was successfully contacting the update server, but attempts to synchronize updates were failing with “A general system error has occurred” message. Not…