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Hello Everyone, This post is about how to update/renew custom certificates on External PSC, vCenter appliance and ESXi hosts. So, i am writing this post so that you can easily understand how to update the custom certificates in a distributed environment. Let me give you a brief overview about my distributed environment which is as follows. 2 X PSC appliances 6.5 U3 version (External PSC behind F5 load balancer) 1 X vCenter appliance 6.5 U3  3 X ESXi hosts 6.5 U3 Alright, Lets start the certificate update/renew in below order only. 1. Update/Renew certificates on External PSC appliances. 2. Update/Renew certificates on vCenter appliance. 3. Update/Renew certificates on ESXI hosts. First, please take snapshots on all PSC and VCSA appliances. Here, we are going to update/renew the Machine SSL certificates for PSC, VCSA and ESXi host.  =====================================================================                   ...

  Imported Virtual machine in vRA not showing IP address allocation in network profile Hello Everyone, Today, I am writing this post for the issue which I encountered after bulk import of Virtual machine into vRealize Automation 7.6 version. I saw the behaviour that imported virtual machine IP address is not showing allocated in Network profile section. Due to this IP address allocation not updated in network profile, vRA allocates that same IP to another VM during the VM deployment via vRA. This is default behaviour of vRA because as per the vRA inventory that particular IP is not allocated to any VM. But when I raised a VM provision request via vRA, it got stucked on customise the virtual machine because it detects that the IP is already in use on the network so my VM request got failed after 2 hrs. time out period. Now, below are the steps to update the IP address for the registered VMs into vRA via IAAS SQL database so that IP address allocated in network profile ...

Hi There, This article is for how to resolve the vRA replica nodes domain joining issues. Let me tell you the background of this issue, I have upgraded my vRA environment 7.3 to 7.6 version successfully. After the upgrade, I introduced 2 replica nodes into vRA cluster to make it distributed deployment. Once, i have added the replica nodes into vRA cluster successfully. I logged into my vRA portal default tenant and try to add these 2 nodes( which are basically called as connectors into vRA portal) to my Active Directory domain so that i can leverage the benefit of Load balancer and user authentication can be made via any nodes into the vRA cluster. On vRA portal, go to Administration Tab, under Directories Management, click on Connectors tab When i click on Join domain tab on my second Replica node, i got below error. Connector communication failed with response: Certificate for <VRA002.cloudarena.com> doesn't match common name of the certificate subject: VRA...

Hello there !! I am covering this post for the configuration of LDAPS authentication for vCenter server or Platform Service controller in case of external PSC deployment. Before doing this, let me give you an important update that Microsoft gave advisory that everyone needs to enable the LDAP binding and signing at Active Directory domain controllers for secure LDAP authentication. Below are some KB articles for how to enable LDAP binding and signing at AD level. ·          KB4520412:  2020 LDAP channel binding and LDAP signing requirement for Windows ·          KB4034879:  LDAP channel binding ·          KB935834:  LDAP signing This LDAP change will affect all applications which are using LDAP authentication with AD.  So. Lets begin to change the LDAP configuration on vCenter Server 6.7 in my case here. Step...

  Hello !! Today, I am writing this post for the upgrade of vRealize Automation platform from 7.3 to 7.6 version. Let me give you a look at my current vRA infrastructure components. We have vRA 7.3 platform in distributed deployment  mode which have following components/Nodes. 3 X vRA Appliances. 2 X IAAS Web server. 2 X IAAS Manager server  2 X DEM server for ABC vCenter server Endpoint 2X DEM server for DEF vCenter server Endpoint 2X DEM server for XYZ vCenter server Endpoint 2 X SQL 2016 server All the IAAS/Manager/DEM/SQL servers are running on Windows 2012 R2 STD edition. First of all, we need to prepare for some pre-requisites for the upgrade. I have upgraded my 2 vRA distributed platform and basis on that experience, i can say it is quite difficult and you can face many issues during the upgrade. The Reason of issues is that the mixture of appliances and Windows servers on this vRealize product. So, let's don't worry ab...