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Reset VxRail Root and Mystic Accounts
I have been working with clients that are using VxRail for their infrastructure. While administering these VxRail deployments, sometimes the mystic or root accounts get locked, the password’s expire or are just plain lost. Either way, it is a very frustrating situation to find yourself in. Turn to Google and search for reset VxRail Manager…
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Changing the Primary Network Identifier (PNID) on vCenter
Preface This has been occurring to me a lot lately. vCenter gets deployed and configured with a hostname. You are likely not giving it much thought until later when a particular situation arises. When it’s time to upload Transport Layer Security (TLS) certificates and you receive the following warning, “Error occurred while fetching tls: Invalid…
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How to Get Values from a Nested Ansible Dictionary
The following block of code is used to get a list of files from a directory. It then registers a variable with the contents of any files that were found. This next block is used to display the contents of the registered variable. The result of the debug command is below. Notice that the “files”…