VCF 9.1: Fixing “Hot migration is disabled in vmkernel” and Making It Stick
This one caught me in the lab while I was moving VMs off a management domain host ahead of some maintenance. vMotion failed almost instantly, and vCenter gave…
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…
SDDC Manager 9.1 Stuck in a Login Loop? Check the Clock, Then the Root Password
I went to log into SDDC Manager in the lab and never made it to the dashboard. The browser went to the vCenter SSO page, came back to…
VCF 9.1.1 – Operations flagged an expired certificate that did not exist
The certificate dashboard in VCF Operations told me one of my workload domains, running vCenter 9.1.1, had an expired certificate. Eight total, one expired, seven active. The row…
VCF 9.1.1: When vCenter’s SFTP Backup Fails Before It Starts
A VCF 9.1.1 upgrade blocked by vcenter.deployment.migration_upgrade.no_recent_vcenter_backup.error, a vCenter SFTP backup that fails in 31 milliseconds without touching the network, and the workaround that actually ships. vCenter 9.1…
VCF 9.1 – The NSX KB Procedure That Locks You Out of the Thing It’s Protecting
We run NSX with Avi Load Balancer, and every so often the Avi Controller manages to lock the NSX admin account. Usually it is credential drift somewhere. The…
VCF 9.1: A Failed OPS_LOGS Precheck and a Greyed-Out Upgrade Plan
Two unrelated-looking roadblocks turned up in the same afternoon while moving a VCF 9.0.2 environment to 9.1: a Log Management precheck that failed instantly with a 500, and…
VMSP Toolkit – Troubleshooting Appliance for VCF 9.1’s Management Services
If you've deployed VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1, you've met the VCF Service Runtime — the Kubernetes cluster quietly running the entire management plane. Broadcom calls the platform underneath…
VKS Cluster Management Stuck in “Configuring” on VCF 9.0 — and the Disabled DFW Hiding Underneath
If you’ve enabled VKS cluster management on VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 and the service just sits at Configuring forever, this one is for you. I had the VKS…
VCF 9.x vCenter Linking Permission Fix
During this VCF 9.0.1 deployment, I observed that logging in with my Active Directory-driven SSO account did not display the linked vCenter instances when using my AD credentials.…