Whilst working with a customer recently, we encountered a situation recently where we were required to run a packet capture on a VCSA (vCenter Server appliance) version 6.0. Being a Linux appliance underneath, the tool to use is tcpdump, but by default tcpdump is not actually installed by default. There […]
On various engagements I am involved with, I often need to produce some code to add or delete objects from NSX-v. These objects in general are things like IP Sets, MAC Sets, Security Groups, Security Tags, Services, Service Groups, Security Policies and even deleting the FW rulebase itself. Until recently […]
When working on a customer site recently, it was discovered that the root account on the vRealize Operations Manager 6.0 server had been locked out. This is the process we used to unlock the root account. Open up a console session to the VM Press Alt + F1 and try […]
Recently on a customer site we had a peculiar scenario where we were deploying a VM into a NSX environment via vRA and the operation was failing due to an unknown reason. However, we noticed that the IP address that vRA had allocated for the new VM was still responding […]
