Bits, Bytes, & Radio Waves

A Journey Through Discovery

  • VMware Identity Manager and NSX Advanced Load Balancer (ALB)

    Overview You think there would be plenty of good resources documenting this, but I couldn’t find one. I found all kinds of resources for configuring against a Horizon environment, though. In this post, I am deploying a VMware Identity Manager cluster from an Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager (LCM). This is my configuration of setting up…

  • MyLab: VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Edge Node Cluster Diagram

    Overview I am not much of a drawer, so this is the best that I could come up with. The Tier-0 Gateway is a logical gateway, it is backed by the edge-node-1 virtual machine and edge-node-2 virtual machine. The two Edge transport Nodes are part of an Edge Cluster, called vcf-edge-cluster, but I did not…

  • VCF Legacy Certificate Management

    Overview If you are here, you are probably trying to install certificates and all you see or have seen for hours is, “Certificate installation is in progress.” If you think it’s not working, you are probably correct. Hopefully after reviewing this post, you will be able to have properly installed certificates.

  • VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle: VMware Identity Manager (vIDM)

    Overview While VMware by Broadcom is a thing and Workspace ONE Access is supposedly the new name for VMware Identity Manager, you will find the Easy Installer still refers to it as VMware Identity Manager. So while there are many identity crises happening, the one crisis this post will illustrate is how to deploy the…

  • VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF): SFTP

    Overview If you are reading this, I bet you are trying to get your SDDC Manager configured to do backups via SFTP…and it’s just not working. You keep seeing a similar message in SDDC Manager, even though you are using all the correct configuration information. Invalid parameter: Validation failed for directory path <configured backup directory>…

  • VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Troubleshooting

    Overview Most of the time, when I am troubleshooting a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) bring-up, networking comes into play. Whether it be NTP, DNS, or other various ports, networking is probably the most important thing to get right for a successful bring-up. Subnets, network borders, Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU), VLANs, trunks, tags, i.e.

This is how it all started…

I started this site with the intent to aggregate as much information as possible in one place. I use this to record lessons learned or frustrating configurations I have experienced on the job or just tinkering (learning) and just couldn’t find a better resource available. I have tried to be as thorough and accurate as possible, but technology is rapidly evolving and every environment is different. I may miss things along the way and my setup most likely differs compared to yours.

I hope you find this site has some value to you.

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Aaron Rombaut

Writer & Technologist