Replacing self-signed certificate with custom certificates for Aria products Do you have difficulties changing the custom certificates used by your Aria appliances? It is always recommended not to use the self-signed certificate for security reasons. Often you will have request to change the self-signed certificate to custom certificates which are signed by internal CA or…
NSX Log configuration to Aria Operations for Log (vRLI)
Logging configuration After setting up your NSX, it is important to configure logging for your NSX. Administrators may need to refer to logs for troubleshooting purposes etc. If you remember NSX-V, there are quite a few steps to be done and also require you to use RestAPI for certain part. With the current NSX, the…
VM connected to an NSX logical switch lose connectivity after a host reboot.
I’ve recently upgraded my home lab to NSXT 3.2 along side with ESXi 7.0 U3. For a home lab setup I believe we periodically shut down the host to save some electricity bills. So after I had completed my NSXT configuration, I observed that my VMs will not be able to connect to the network…
NSXT – How to configure Gateway DHCP Service
I been busy setting up NSXT in my home lab for the past couple of weeks. I realized there isn’t much post on configuring Gateway DHCP service on NSXT. The reason why I choose Gateway DHCP over Local DHCP service is because, you only need to configure a single DHCP server to perform IP assignment…
Unable to run Nested VMs in VMware Workstation with Windows 10
My company had recently changed my laptop to a newer ones. The laptop is running a new Intel Core i7 CPU with Windows 11 installed. As usual, I installed VMware Workstation 16 Pro on it and ported my old VMs to the new laptop. I’m surprised that I’m not being able to power on my…
Language icon not appearing in taskbar (Windows 10)
Recently I hit with an issue on my Windows machine that the Language icon not appearing in taskbar when I’m working on a VDI’s golden image. I’m pretty sure that all the required languages had been properly installed. Anyway, I blogged about how to add multiple languages in multiple profiles in same Windows 10 machines….
Windows 10: Add additional languages/keyboard to multiple profiles in same machine
I’ve been working on VMware Horizon recently and my customer is asking me how he can add additional languages/keyboard to any users logging in to VDI desktop. Sound very simple and straightforward. But I couldn’t seems to find a good article to resolve this. I’ve tried to add the languages via VMWare DEM, make registries…
vRealize Operations (vROps) – Rebalance objects collection
Have you ever reboot your vROps appliances and your object collections is imbalance? One data node might be collecting more objects than the other data node. Then this may impact overall performance during the collection. We can actually rebalance all the collection with a click of a button. Login to your vROps page (https://<vrops_ip>/ui), navigate…
Error provisioning VM on vRA 7.6. Error message “Read timed out; nested exception is java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read time out”
Recently I’ve encountered an issue when deploying a VM from one of my vRA blueprint. I receive a message “Read timed out; nested exception is java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read time out”. When you click on the deployment, you receive the error as shown in the picture below. So, the first instinct is to reboot the vRA appliances…
Configure wildcard “Let’s Encrypt” certificate on Synology NAS using DNS validation method
Recently I’ve successfully created a wildcard “Let’s Encrypt” certificate on my Synology NAS 6.2.x. I would like to share the working steps below and hope that someone else can find it useful. I will list the steps as detailed as possible so that you can follow it through without facing too many difficulties. Enable SSH…