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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 ...