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NewFixing a VCF Services Runtime etcd That Can’t Start: 5.4 Million Keys and a Runaway Support Bundle NewAutomating Let’s Encrypt Certificates on VMware Avi Load Balancer with Cloudflare DNS PostVMSP Toolkit 3.0.1 for VCF 9.1: Rollouts, Topology and Infrastructure Checks PostSDDC Manager 9.1 Stuck in a Login Loop? Check the Clock, Then the Root Password PostVCF 9.1.1: One Host, One NFS Cluster, and a Validator That Wouldn’t Budge PostClearing the “Virtual Machine UEFI Secure Boot Platform Key is out of date” Alarm After VCF 9.1.1 PostVCF 9.1.1: Scaling VCF Management Services from HA back to Simple PostVCF 9.1.1 worker rightsizing: PodDisruptionBudgets, and why it does not stick

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VCF Expert Oct 14, 2026

Fixing a VCF Services Runtime etcd That Can’t Start: 5.4 Million Keys and a Runaway Support Bundle

All of this was done in my home lab. A few of the steps (deleting keys directly from etcd, suspending Flux, running etcd outside of its StatefulSet) are…

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