When a vSphere Supervisor Upgrade Gets Stuck on Spherelet VIB Removal
A simple field note on a vSphere Supervisor upgrade that stalled because vLCM could not remove the old Spherelet component while files were still in use.
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Field note: NSX Edge CPU lockups and Enhanced Datapath on Minisforums MS-A2 MiniPCs
A short VCF lab note on NSX Edge receive ring-buffer overflows, host CPU pressure, and the changes that appear to have stabilised the environment.
vSAN Witness Power-On Failure with Software Memory Tiering
Draft note: this is a lab workaround for a specific Software Memory Tiering placement block. I am not treating it as a Broadcom-supported design recommendation. This started as…
Resizing the VCF Automation Appliance 9.0.2 in a Home Lab
Unsupported change: Broadcom currently says that resource resizing for VCF 9.0.2 Automation components is not supported. Their KB is here: Broadcom KB 412468. Do not treat this as…
Adding a Private Harbor CA Certificate to a VKS Cluster
In my lab I have been building out a small VKS cluster running on the Supervisor in vCenter. The next step was to use a private Harbor registry…
Automating NSX Password Expiry Management across a VCF Workload Domain
In a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) environment, you typically have many NSX Manager and NSX Edge nodes deployed, especially as you scale across multiple sites, availability zones, or…