VMware on DimensionQuest - Burke's Blog!https://dimensionquest.net/tags/vmware/Recent content in VMware on DimensionQuest - Burke's Blog!Hugoen-usCopyright © 1999-2026 Burke Azbill. All Rights Reserved.Tue, 25 Mar 2025 13:34:00 -0400VCF SDDC Manager: Identity Internal Server Errorhttps://dimensionquest.net/2025/03/vcf-sddc-manager-identity-internal-server-error/Tue, 25 Mar 2025 13:34:00 -0400https://dimensionquest.net/2025/03/vcf-sddc-manager-identity-internal-server-error/Identity Internal Server Error

I was recently working on our lab environment at work that runs VCF 5.2.1. This “lab” is the one used in the VMware Livefire classes so it is quite similar to those used in the VMware Explore Hands On Labs. In any case, I had attempted to use Lifecycle Manager to start one of the VMs in the environment and it immediatel failed due to a bad password on vCenter. I did a RETRY on the Request and manually specified the password to use. That immediately went through to success. Since LCM was deployed via VCF’s SDDC Manager, I decided to power that up and attempt to login to it. NOTE: Since this is a lab, we don’t always power on SDDC Manager.

]]>Enable SR-IOV in ESXi on Dell R650 for Intel Flex 140 GPUhttps://dimensionquest.net/2023/12/2023-12-29-enable-sr-iov-in-esxi-on-dell-r650-for-intel-flex-140-gpu/Fri, 29 Dec 2023 17:01:31 +0000https://dimensionquest.net/2023/12/2023-12-29-enable-sr-iov-in-esxi-on-dell-r650-for-intel-flex-140-gpu/

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This video will step you through the process I followed in my own environment running Dell PowerEdge R650. Prior to recording this video, I experienced a few different errors due to not having an up to date bios and attempting to enable SR-IOV with three GPUs installed:

]]>How to Load Balance VMware Cloud Director With Traefikhttps://dimensionquest.net/2021/12/how-to-load-balance-vcloud-director-with-traefik/Sun, 19 Dec 2021 14:37:58 -0400https://dimensionquest.net/2021/12/how-to-load-balance-vcloud-director-with-traefik/Traefik Load Balanced VMware Cloud Director 10.x

I have a lab environment running VMware Cloud Director 10.x and wanted to leverage my existing Traefik server for SSL, Reverse Proxy, and Load Balancing my 3 server nodes. This article steps through my configuration and provides an example, working (anonymized) dynamic file based Traefik configuration file.

]]>SDDC Manager Precheck Fails NSX-T Password Expiredhttps://dimensionquest.net/2021/04/sddc-manager-precheck-fails-nsxt-password-expired/Tue, 06 Apr 2021 06:49:39 -0400https://dimensionquest.net/2021/04/sddc-manager-precheck-fails-nsxt-password-expired/NSX-T Password Validity Check Failed in SDDC Manager

I have gotten into the habit of disabling password expiration on linux systems in my lab environments because often times, when dealing with VMware products, these are set to a year or less. Of course forgetting about an expired password can lead to other issues and time troubleshooting. My Validity Check failed due to Password has expired error…

]]>VCF SDDC Manager Not Showing ESXi Bundlehttps://dimensionquest.net/2021/04/vcf-sddc-manager-not-showing-esxi-bundle/Sun, 04 Apr 2021 13:34:00 -0400https://dimensionquest.net/2021/04/vcf-sddc-manager-not-showing-esxi-bundle/VCF Bundle Management

During a recent upgrade of VCF 4.1 to 4.1.0.1 and then on to 4.2, I found myself in a bit of an unsupported situation due to the use of a build that was not part of the VCF 4.2 Bill Of Materials (BOM).

Symptom: SDDC Manager 4.2.0 will not apply the 4.2 update to the ESXi hosts even though the Update 4.2.0.0 bundle for VMware ESXi 7.0 Update 1d has already been downloaded.

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