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How to understand vRealize Automation configuration
When performing the vRealize Automation configuration, there will be some settings need to be configured, like Business group, reservation, blueprint, catalog and etc. This post is to help you to organize and understand these concepts in a different view.
Change Service Profile Template from initial to updating in Cisco UCS
In Cisco UCS system, one of the important configuration is service profile template type, choosing from “initial template” or “updating template”. Updating service profile template provide the ability to update the binded service profile when template itself is updated.
In some user cases, the service profile template is created as an “initial template” initially. But the user want to change it from “initial” to “updating” at a later stage. Unfortunately, there is no direct conversion option in UCS, this post is to provide an alternative way to achieve this.
VMware vRealize Suite Overview
This is a simple post to introduce the VMware vRealize Suite for the first time user as a quick overview. This is a short version of product Overview and the figures in this post are from VMware public documents. The full documents are under below link:
https://docs.vmware.com/en/vRealize-Suite/index.html
Generate Customer Signed Certificate on Linux
This is a quick post to list the steps about generating the Customer Signed Certificate by using openssl on Linux platform (Take CentOS as an example).
The basic knowledge of CA can be referenced at below Wiki page:
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Nutanix Foundation – “Failed to detect node type”
When using Nutanix Foundation to deploy the cluster on Nutanix nodes, the Foundation process might be failed at 2% with below error:
StandardError: Failed to get BMC session after 3 attempts
20190306 11:07:45 CRITICAL Foundation failed to detect node type at 10.100.110.10.
The root cause is the Nutanix node BMC could not be contacted by Foundation process. The below steps can be used to troubleshoot the issue:
RecoverPoint for Virtual Machine – vCenter Re-Registration
RecoverPoint for virtual machines (RP4VM) is one of the DELL EMC data protection solutions to provide the VM level protection locally or remotely.
Comparing with the hardware RecoverPoint Appliance, RP4VM utilized virtual RecoverPoint Appliance and provide VM level protection with the data splitters installed on each of the ESXi servers.
RP4VM relies the vCenter to function properly. This post is to provide a quick guide about how to check and update the vCenter registration information in RP4VM.
Run Nutanix Foundation in Windows (Portable Foundation)
Nutanix Foundation is the tool used for Nutanix Field Installation, it could be used in below scenarios:
- Configure and create a new Nutanix cluster; and
- Re-image the new Nutanix node to expand the existing cluster.
From Foundation version 4.3, there is an option to run Foundation in Windows (which is named portable foundation).
DELL EMC VxRail Study Notes (Part 2)
This post is my personal study technical note DELL EMC VxRail Hyperconverged Solution drafted during my personal knowledge update. This post is not intended to cover all the part of the solution and some note is based on my own understanding of the solution. My intention to draft this note is to outline the key solution elements for quick readers.
The note is based on VxRail version 4.7. Some figures in this post are referenced from DELL EMC VxRail public documents.
The note is the second part of the whole note. The first post is per the below link: