This one caught me in the lab while I was moving VMs off a management domain host ahead of some maintenance. vMotion failed almost instantly, and vCenter gave me one…
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All of this was done in my home lab. A few of the steps (deleting keys directly from etcd, suspending Flux, running etcd outside of its StatefulSet) are…
This is a community script, not something Broadcom supports. Run it against the Let's Encrypt staging environment first and make sure you understand what it does before you…
VMSP Toolkit is an independent project built for lab and proof of concept environments. It is not a Broadcom product and Broadcom does not support it.The Broadcom resize…
I went to log into SDDC Manager in the lab and never made it to the dashboard. The browser went to the vCenter SSO page, came back to…
Changing the host minimum for an SDDC Manager cluster is not supported by Broadcom. Everything in this post modifies SDDC Manager bytecode to get around a check the…
Tested on VCF 9.1.1.0, September 2026 After upgrading to VCF 9.1.1, a new warning showed up on a handful of my VMs and rolled up to the cluster…
Scaling VCF Management Services down from HA to Simple is not supported by Broadcom. The VCF Operations UI only scales up, and everything in this post goes around…
Everything here was done in my own home lab. The rightsizing script itself comes from a Broadcom KB and is supported, but several steps in this post go…
The certificate dashboard in VCF Operations told me one of my workload domains, running vCenter 9.1.1, had an expired certificate. Eight total, one expired, seven active. The row…
A VCF 9.1.1 upgrade blocked by vcenter.deployment.migration_upgrade.no_recent_vcenter_backup.error, a vCenter SFTP backup that fails in 31 milliseconds without touching the network, and the workaround that actually ships. vCenter 9.1…
