vCenter 6.7 Deployment – External PSC with F5 BIG-IP Load Balancer (Part 4.3)vCenter 6.7 Deployment – External PSC with F5 BIG-IP Load Balancer (Part 4.3)

I’m going to deploy a single instance of a vCenter Server. When I’m going through the vCenter HA configuration process my vCenter will become (Active Node, Passive Node, and Witness Node) will be created during that process. I will not deploy these appliances beforehand. First, I’m going now to finalize the last step of PSC HA which is run […]

vCenter 6.7 Deployment – External PSC with F5 BIG-IP Load Balancer (Part 4.2)vCenter 6.7 Deployment – External PSC with F5 BIG-IP Load Balancer (Part 4.2)

In this Part 4.2 of the vCenter 6.7 Deployment series, I will configure the load balancer that will provide a layer of redundancy between the two external Platform Services Controller (PSC) appliances that were deployed in configured in Part 4.1. F5 BIG-IP DEPLOYMENT I have downloaded my F5 BIG-IP appliance, and request the license during registration, and […]

How to resolve failed to deploy OVA / OVF issue (postNFCData failed)How to resolve failed to deploy OVA / OVF issue (postNFCData failed)

During the deployment of OVA or OVF appliance I have faced an issue which is: Failed to deploy VM: postNFCData failed: Capacity of an uploaded disk is larger than requested Also; the upload process has failed with the listed issue: This issue occurs when an incorrect ovf capacity size is specified in the OVF file that […]

vCenter 6.7 Deployment – External PSC with F5 BIG-IP Load Balancer (Part 4.1)vCenter 6.7 Deployment – External PSC with F5 BIG-IP Load Balancer (Part 4.1)

  In this Part 4.1 of the multi-part series for vCenter Server 6.7 deployment, I’m going to deploy the two external Platform Services Controller (PSC) appliances. The PSCs will be load balanced by a 3rd party load balancer. In a real-life deployment, the load balancer could be a virtual or physical appliance, but in my scenario, I will use a virtual appliance. […]

vCenter 6.7 Deployment &Topology – Overview (Part 1)vCenter 6.7 Deployment &Topology – Overview (Part 1)

In this part of vCenter deployment series, I will demonstrate the deployment topologies of vCenter server 6.7 so vCenter server 6.7 has two deployment topologies we can either do vCenter with an embedded PSC or vCenter with an external PSC. In addition, review the steps required to deploy and configure the new vCenter Server Appliance 6.7  with […]

Deploy Microsoft LAPS – Part2 (AD Preparation)Deploy Microsoft LAPS – Part2 (AD Preparation)

 AD Preparation 1- Extend Active Directory Schema The Active Directory Schema needs to be extended by two new attributes that store the password of the managed local Administrator account for each computer and the timestamp of password expiration. Both attributes are added to the may-contain attribute set of the computer class. ms-Mcs-AdmPwd – Stores the […]