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Office 365 tentant to tenant migration tool

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 24 Dec 2019 07:27:15 GMT

Edmails Office 365 tentant to tenant migration tool migrates Office 365 user mailbox, public folders, archive mailboxes, and shared mailbox. It will completely and perfectly migrate all the mailbox items from one Office 365 to another Office 365 or to Exchange server.

Key Features

High Performance migration
Quick and easy migration
True incremental migration
Direct migration from Office 365 to Office 365 server
Direct migration from Office 365 to Exchange server
Automatic setting of impersonation rights to both source as well as target servers
Automatic mapping of mailboxes between source and target server
Facility to load CSV file in case of missing mailboxes from list
Provision to create mailboxes automatically on target servers
The detailed LOG report generation of migration process
Selective mailbox items migration through include exclude filter option
Support for migration from Office 365 to Exchange 2019, 2016, 2013, 2010, 2007 and 2003 etc.

EdbMails Office 365 tenant to tenant migration tool is a highly reliable tool and performs the migration process without any data loss.

SDDC - Manager Dashbooard issue.

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 17 Dec 2019 20:49:06 GMT

Good Morning,

At the moment i am trying to resolve an issue with the SDDC manager dashboard (SDDC 3.7.2).

Far as i can tell everything is up, i can ping the host and it is online.

However i either get Nginx 403 error, OR error timeout.

This all started when we had some licensing issues for our cloud foundation install.

Any help would be appreciated.

- A

Cloud Builder Maximum Hosts

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Wed, 18 Dec 2019 01:06:08 GMT

Has anyone tried to deploy more than 4 hosts via Cloud Builder bringup? Do we know how many hosts VCF Cloud Builder supports? I know you can do 4 hosts and then once SDDC Manager is online you can add to the mgmt domain via SDDC Manager Commission host workflows, but was curious what the true supported number is in UI/JSON for Cloud Builder.

Deploy VMware Horizon with VCF

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 17 Dec 2019 13:01:41 GMT

Hello,

I am doing a VCF lab and I was able to successfully deployed a consolidate vcf architecture. I wanted to explore more the SDDC manager and when I tried to create a Horizon workload domain, the button is dimmed and it said " disabled due to missing vdi install bundle". I want to know how I can download the bundle for VCF3.8.1. I found documentation and link for VCF3.7. Is it ok to upload horizon vcf bundle for 3.7 into my vcf3.8.1 lab. As i am doing a lab, will i be able to download it from my vmug account?

Regards.

Deploy vCenter failed in VMware VCF Bring-up process

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Mon, 16 Dec 2019 16:18:24 GMT

Hello all,

I am doing a nested vcf lab and it is my first lab in vcf. I have 4 nested Esxi 2CPU-8 cores. When I tried to deploy the VMware VCF 3.8, it failed in Deploy vCenter Server. When I check log in /var/log/vmware/vcf/bringup/vcf-bringup-debug-log, it shows:

org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: FATAL: password authentication failed for user "bringup".

I tried to deploy it two times and it stuck at the vCenter deployment. Any ideas how i can resolve it?

Regards.

Adding extra disks/disk groups to a VCF setup post deployment

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Wed, 11 Jul 2018 00:38:20 GMT

Author : Andy Dugas

URL : http:////docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Cloud-Foundation/2.3.2/com.vmware.vcf.admin.doc_232/GUID-704FD57A-19A6-4305-8619-6B33DE557AAC.html

Topic Name : Replace Capacity Drive (SSD or HDD) or Cache Drive (SSD) in a Host

Publication Name : Administering VMware Cloud Foundation

Product/Version : VMware Cloud Foundation/2.3.2

Question :

If a customer procured a VSAN certified node for VMware Cloud Foundation, but the nodes were partially populated with disks, then 1. Can he add extra disks groups/capacity post deployment without re-imaging the cluster? 2. Will this affect the VCF certification of the VSAN ready node in any way? and hence the support

VCF on VxRail for 2 sites & 1 Mgt Domain?

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 02:57:40 GMT

Hi guys,

Is it possible to configure 2 sites with VxRail + VCF where management domain be shared between them? Assuming that customer has a dark fiber connection between their DCs, it could be only one mgt domain shared for both sites? I know that stretched cluster is the recommended configuration, but we need to know if is there another way to do it. Your comments wil be very appreciated.

powercli snapshot powershell how can i get the information that is shown on the portal

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 10 Dec 2019 04:33:02 GMT

We are on VCloud Director. I use powercli to connect to the VCloud. I have the following Powershell modules

List item 11.0.0.... VMware.VimAutomation.Cloud
List item 11.3.0.... VMware.VimAutomation.Common
List item 11.3.0.... VMware.VimAutomation.Core11.3.0
List item 11.2.0.... VMware.VimAutomation.Vds

I can shut down the VM and take a snapshot from poweshell

Connect-CIServer -Server $vcd02 -org $orgArp 
$VM = Get-CIVM -Name $server 

$vm.ExtensionData.Shutdown_Task() 

$vm.ExtensionData.CreateSnapshot($false,$true,"Snapshot","BeforeVMtoolinstall")

Then in VCloud portal I can see that there is a snapshot. But how can I run a powershell command to show me that the snapshot has been taken of the VM/VApp ?

The command get-snapshot does not work.

vCF Series – Bring UP (VMware Cloud Foundation 3.9)

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 03 Dec 2019 07:44:59 GMT

Hello Folks,

I wrote a series of blogs on my blog site "vmWARS – A War of Virtualization"

Hope it may help you to understand and implement the vCF in your environment.

vCF Series – Bring UP (VMware Cloud Foundation 3.9) – vmWARS

Rgds

-Harjit

vmware esx 6.5 Fatal error: 10(out of resources)

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Fri, 29 Nov 2019 14:16:49 GMT

I hope you are doing well.i had an issue on Esxi 6.5 there was power cut when power was on host failed to boot with this error

Error loading /jumpstrt.gz

Fatal error: 10 (out of resources)

i am using Dell R730xd servers

INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR at 'Apply vCenter Server License' in Cloud Builder

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Wed, 20 Nov 2019 16:41:50 GMT

Hi folks,

I'm hitting an issue during bringup on Cloud builder (VCF 3.8.1). The following message is displayed in the UI:

Apply vCenter Server License > A problem has occurred on the server. Please retry or contact the service provider and provide the reference token.

From the vcf-bringup-debug.log:

2019-10-10T11:41:46.825+0000 [bringup-app,[85b64ffb21efef28,048a]] ERROR [c.v.e.s.o.model.error.ErrorFactory,pool-3-thread-14] [LHI2G] INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR Param Building for prefix 'preValidate' part of task ApplyVcLicense in plugin com.vmware.evo.sddc.bringup.plugin.spi.VcPlugin65 failed with exception.

com.vmware.evo.sddc.common.core.error.InternalServerErrorException: Param Building for prefix 'preValidate' part of task ApplyVcLicense in plugin com.vmware.evo.sddc.bringup.plugin.spi.VcPlugin65 failed with exception.

I did find a VMware Knowledge Base article (not directly related issue) that referenced a timesync issue with a previous SDDC release however i have doublechecked all components and everything is in sync with NTP.

Any ideas?

Commission Host Log Location

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Wed, 20 Nov 2019 14:28:06 GMT

Anyone know where the commission host log is? Trying to debug some API calls that are succeeding, but the host commission is failing. TIA.

TEP design for stretched cluster

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 19 Nov 2019 18:41:08 GMT

Hi,

For a cluster stretched across two physical datacenter, can I have the same VLAN id for NSX-T TEP vlan but different IP subnet at each datacenter?

The IP address allocation for the TEP is done through DHCP server.

Thanks & regards.

Shahab

NSX-T Workload Domain Creation Failed

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 22:40:33 GMT

Hello,

Has anyone out there happened to run into a similar error creating an NSX-T workload domain:

Cause:

Type: com.vmware.evo.sddc.orchestrator.exceptions.OrchTaskException

Unable to create transport node collection with profile e61e29a3-9d0b-4ffe-8262-1a71c57e3c9e on compute collection <ESX_Cluster> through nsxmanager <workload_domain_nsx_manager>

It seems from a review of the logs and ESX hosts included in the creation that one of the 4 nodes is missing all of the logical switches and overlay network that was automatically created on the others. There is no retry available with this failed tasks and I haven't gotten an exact hit on any searches so was curious if someone has hit this and knows how to retry or do it manually. I'd liketo avoid having to redo all of the hosts, etc and start over again.

Thanks!

NSX for Management Domain in VCF

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 12 Nov 2019 16:33:39 GMT

Hi,

I want to know the use of NSX-V in Management Domain. As per the documentation, I don't see any Management VM being part of NSX Logical switch.

Appreciate for the quick response.

Regards,

Shahab

Unable to reach CA Server when Deploying vRA on SDDC Manager

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Mon, 11 Nov 2019 21:14:37 GMT

We're deploying VCF 3.8.1 on VxRail 4.7.300, it shows "Unable to reach CA Server" as below when deploying vRA on SDDC manager. Any idea is appreciated! Thank you!

P.S. we generated certificate by SDDC manger script.

"Certificate chain is not valid" Deployment vRA 7.6 by VCF3.8.1 Error

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Mon, 11 Nov 2019 21:12:00 GMT

My demon is VCF3.8.1 +VxRail 4.7.300, in SDDC Manager, Configure Certificate Authority is ok.

when i deployed the vRA by sddc manager, touch the issue. below is log infomation:

Failure: Command execution result: Command id: e88d7081-7b2c-332d-42a0-178ebabc37ae Type: vra-certificate-import Node id: cafe.node.583296594.17063 Node host: vra03.dellbjebc.com Result: Failed to import vRA certificate. Check /var/log/messages for more details. Result description: Status: FAILED Error: {"35000":"---BEGIN---\n{\"code\":400,\"message\":\"Certificate chain is not valid.\"}\n---END---\n\nUse -e option to get more details.\n"}

com.vmware.vrealize.lcm.common.exception.EngineException: Failure: Command execution result:

Command id: e88d7081-7b2c-332d-42a0-178ebabc37ae

Type: vra-certificate-import

Node id: cafe.node.583296594.17063

Node host: vra03.dellbjebc.com

Result: Failed to import vRA certificate. Check /var/log/messages for more details.

Result description:

Status: FAILED

Error: {"35000":"---BEGIN---\n{\"code\":400,\"message\":\"Certificate chain is not valid.\"}\n---END---\n\nUse -e option to get more details.\n"}

at com.vmware.vrealize.lcm.plugin.core.vra70.task.cafe.ImportCafeCertificateTask.execute(ImportCafeCertificateTask.java:78)

at com.vmware.vrealize.lcm.platform.automata.core.ExecutionTask.run(ExecutionTask.java:41)

at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149)

at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)

at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)

com.vmware.vrealize.lcm.common.exception.EngineException: Failure: Command execution result:

Command id: e88d7081-7b2c-332d-42a0-178ebabc37ae

Type: vra-certificate-import

Node id: cafe.node.583296594.17063

Node host: vra03.dellbjebc.com

Result: Failed to import vRA certificate. Check /var/log/messages for more details.

Result description:

Status: FAILED

Error: {"35000":"---BEGIN---\n{\"code\":400,\"message\":\"Certificate chain is not valid.\"}\n---END---\n\nUse -e option to get more details.\n"}

com.vmware.vrealize.lcm.common.exception.EngineException: Failure: Command execution result:

Command id: 11a66a83-dd5a-4fe6-8a02-22cbda182d1b

on prem to IBM Cloud migration

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Mon, 11 Nov 2019 21:05:00 GMT

Hi All ,

could someone suggest on following scenerio.

consider a on prem environemt which is running on vsphere6.0 environment with NSX and vsan .there is a need to migrate workloads to ibm cloud on VCF.

since starting 6.0 we have long distance vmotion that can migrate vms acrross geography in our case to one of the the DCs of IBM.

do we really need HCX in above scenerio ??can we simply rely on long distance vmotion.

apreciate yur response on this.

OpenSSL Error when trying to validate vCF 3.8?

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 12 Nov 2019 12:30:14 GMT

I'm working on standing up vCF nested in a lab, and followed William Lam's guide to prepping the environment, I'm pretty sure everything is configured properly. While trying to validate the configuration file before bring up, I'm getting a nice generic OpenSSL error on several of the sections (vSAN Disk availability, ESXi version, ESXi host readiness, Time Synchronization, and Network validation): "ESXi Host <HOST IP> unable to connect: Unknown OpenSSL error. This error is commonly encountered when another library is not cleaning up the OpenSSL error stack. If you are using cryptography with another library that uses OpenSSL try disabling it before reporting a bug. Otherwise please file an issue at https://github.com/pyca/cryptography/issues with information on how to reproduce this. ([_OpenSSLErrorWithText(code=2147897744L, lib=128, func=101, reason=400, reason_text='error:80065190:lib(128):osrandom_rand_bytes:getrandom() initialization failed.')])."

I've validated that the Cloud Builder VM can communicate with the hosts, NTP is functioning, and DNS is resolving.

Everything should be self-signed certs, and I'm not seeing anything out there, so I'm not sure where to start looking. Does anyone have any ideas on where to start?

Thanks in advance for your time

Cloud Foundation Horizon Domain Architecture Reference Poster

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Mon, 11 Nov 2019 19:39:53 GMT

HCX Architecture Reference Poster for VMware Cloud Foundation

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Mon, 11 Nov 2019 19:39:12 GMT

Cloud Foundation Architecture Reference Poster

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Mon, 11 Nov 2019 19:30:48 GMT

Workload-Migration-Strategies-with-VMware-Cloud-Foundation.pdf

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:14:30 GMT

Resource Pools

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Sat, 26 Oct 2019 02:26:51 GMT

Hey all,

What is the official stance on resource pools in VCF? They don't seem to be configured to do anything in terms of true tuning of shares, so maybe they are just in case the consolidated model is desired? If that's that case, they can just be deleted and/or not used right? If there are no plans for contention in the management domain, they seem unnecessary.

TIA!

Install VMCA root cert to SDDC Manager VM Failed with VCF 3.7.2 on VxRail 4.7.211 due to not Shell model on PSC1

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Mon, 02 Sep 2019 05:36:56 GMT

Hi,

Is below issue fixed in VCF 3.8. if not, how do I raise an enhancement to RnD team?

Issue:

We met "Install VMCA root cert to SDDC Manager VM Failed " with VCF 3.7.2 on VxRail 4.7.211 (Upgraded from VxRail 4.5.*) as following:

Troubleshooting:

It shows "Unknown command: '/usr/lib/vmware-vmca/bin/certool'" in log, due to the default model of PSC 1 for VxRail is command.

Solution:

It works to change the PSC model from Command to shell.

Remove a vRealize Product

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Sun, 13 Oct 2019 12:54:30 GMT

Has anyone ever tried to remove and redeploy a vRealize product from SDDC Manager? Is there an actual procedure/KB for this? I can't find one.

[vCF 2.3.1] vRA Deployment error

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Wed, 11 Jul 2018 00:45:38 GMT

Hi all.

I would like to ask those who have similar experience.

What should I check to resolve the errors in this step?

1. vRA deployment failed through SDDC Manager.

2. evosddc-debug.log :

2018-05-31 23:54:35.579 [https-jsse-nio-8443-exec-16] ERROR [com.vmware.vrack.vrm.security.websso.util.RequestAuthorizationUtility] Not all pre-authorization conditions met for URL /vrm-ui/api/1.0/lcm/bundles called from 172.16.16.200

2018-05-31 23:54:35.579 [https-jsse-nio-8443-exec-24] ERROR [com.vmware.vrack.vrm.security.websso.util.RequestAuthorizationUtility] Not all pre-authorization conditions met for URL /vrm-ui/api/1.0/lcm/inventory/upgrades called from 172.16.16.200

2018-05-31 23:54:35.590 [https-jsse-nio-8443-exec-20] ERROR [com.vmware.vrack.vrm.security.websso.util.RequestAuthorizationUtility] Not all pre-authorization conditions met for URL /vrm-ui/api/1.0/lcm/inventory/upgrades called from 172.16.16.200

2018-05-31 23:54:35.591 [https-jsse-nio-8443-exec-23] ERROR [com.vmware.vrack.vrm.security.websso.util.RequestAuthorizationUtility] Not all pre-authorization conditions met for URL /vrm-ui/api/1.0/lcm/bundles called from 172.16.16.200

2018-05-31 23:55:18.956 [https-jsse-nio-8443-exec-15] ERROR [com.vmware.vrack.vrm.security.websso.util.RequestAuthorizationUtility] Not all pre-authorization conditions met for URL /vrm-ui/api/1.0/core/activity/vrack/workflows called from 172.16.16.200

3. Environment

vCF version : 2.3.1

Work-VM : 172.16.16.200

I checked Deploy vRealize Automation in Cloud Foundation

Prerequisites

Verify that you have created an Active Directory account.You must create an Active Directory (AD) user account with permission to join Windows VMs to the domain.
Verify that you have a valid license key for vRealize Automation, which is purchased separately from Cloud Foundation.
Verify certificate and private key.You must have a multi-SAN certificate and private key generated by a trusted certificate authority. During generation, you must specify the short and full names of all vRealize Automation VMs and load balancer servers. >> Used vRealize Certificate Generation Tool VMware Knowledge Base
Verify that you have created a subzone in the Active Directory DNS.
Verify that Microsoft SQL Server is configured properly.You must join the Microsoft SQL Server VM to the Active AD, create a new login for the AD administrative user in SQL Server, modify the firewall and port configuration, and create the SQL database.
Verify that you have an OVA template for the vRealize Automation Windows VM, using Windows 2012 R2.
Verify that your Windows server image meet the following requirement for IaaS.
- All Windows servers that host IaaS components must meet certain requirements. See Requirements for IaaS Windows Servers.
- A Windows server that hosts the Web component must meet additional requirements. See IaaS Web Server in the vRealize Automation documentation.
- A Windows server that hosts the Manager Service component must meet additional requirements. See IaaS Manager Service Host in the vRealize Automation documentation.
- Ports on the IaaS Windows servers must be configured before vRealize Automation installation. See https://docs.vmware.com/en/vRealize-Automation/7.3/com.vmware.vra.install.upgrade.doc/GUID-497EECE9-018E-428B-9ED9-AB4B6722D2AB.html in the vRealize Automation documentation.

Thank you

- Hyun

Please Update command

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Wed, 09 Oct 2019 20:02:21 GMT

Author : Ben Corson

URL : http:////docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Cloud-Foundation/3.8/com.vmware.vcf.admin.doc_38/GUID-24B42A36-1F37-4407-957D-F1A1C869411D.html

Topic Name : Look Up Account Credentials

Publication Name : VMware Cloud Foundation Operations and Administration Guide

Product/Version : VMware Cloud Foundation/3.8

Question :

Please remove the double quotes in the curl commands. I was able to confirm single quotes work successfully.

VCF with VVD Plumbing?

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Thu, 19 Sep 2019 12:54:31 GMT

Hey all,

As you probably know, when deploying VCF with Cloud Builder NSX-V deploys controllers and installs vRLI on the VLAN backed portgroup during bring up. My assumption is that the networking architecture under the covers that should be used is the VVD architecture to allow for multi-region futures. However, when deploying vRSLCM, VCF only asks for a VLAN and creates a VLAN backed portgroup during deployment and configuration. So a few questions hopefully you can help answer for me:

1. In the VVD architecture, vRSLCM is put on the cross region VXLAN so that it can perform a site failure. I've tried editing the portgroup post deployment but it fails during vRLI import.

2. I've deployed ESGs and UDLRs in the typical VVD fashion but am concerned about how the rest of the workflows will tie into the architecture (vROps and vRA).

3. In a multi-region scenario, are we saying that there will be a SDDC manager at both sites?

TIA!

Multiple Custom ESXi ISOs

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Sun, 15 Sep 2019 12:42:48 GMT

Is there a way to use more than one custom ISO image? I'm thinking of a scenario when one cluster or workload domain may have different server components than another. When looking at the documentation it appears that there's only a one to one relation, unless someone has figured a way to work with the properties and/or json file. Any ideas?

Upgrade ESXi with Custom ISO