A full /storage/log partition on a vCenter Server Appliance is not just a housekeeping problem. It is a management-plane risk. In a standalone vSphere environment, it can interrupt administration, log collection, patching, and service stability. In VMware Cloud Foundation, the blast radius is larger because vCenter is tied into SDDC Manager workflows, workload domain lifecycle … Read more
Certificate changes in vSphere environments rarely fail in only one place. The obvious place to look is the browser warning, the expired certificate alarm, or the service that recently had its Machine SSL certificate replaced. But in production VMware Cloud Foundation and vSphere environments, certificate changes can also break something less visible: the extension and … Read more
vCenter certificate failures tend to show up at the worst possible time: during an upgrade precheck, after a maintenance window has already started, when services will not start cleanly, or when a certificate alarm has been ignored long enough to become someone else’s emergency. The mistake is treating certificate recovery as a button-click exercise. The … Read more
Certificates in vSphere are easy to underestimate until they become the reason vCenter will not authenticate, services will not start cleanly, NSX loses trust in its Compute Manager, or SDDC Manager stops interacting with the management domain the way it should. That is why a VMCA reset should not be treated as a generic “renew … Read more
vCenter certificate problems rarely arrive as clean, isolated maintenance tasks. They usually show up as failed logins, services that refuse to start, upgrade prechecks that suddenly block progress, or downstream trust failures in NSX, SDDC Manager, backup tools, monitoring platforms, or automation. By the time an operator is searching for “Fixcerts,” the environment is often … Read more
VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 is not the kind of upgrade you should treat as a last-minute lifecycle task. For many customers, the move to VCF 9.1 is also a shift in operating model, lifecycle sequencing, management services, resource planning, and cross-team readiness. That is why the new VCF 9.1 Upgrade Planning Tool matters. VMware’s announcement … Read more
