ARUN NUKULA

Arun Nukula is Technology Product Manager in the VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Division at Broadcom. His primary focus is helping customers and partners build, run and operate a modern Private Cloud using the VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) platform

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! Error searching for Sync Results from Storage

When you browse directories in vRA UI and click on Sync Log , are you seeing a message stating ! Error searching for Sync Results from...

Arun Nukula

Jul 15, 2018

Removing stale Puppet entries from Configuration Items

When provisioning / destroy fails or is stuck due to whatever reason , there is every chance that we have to manually clean them. In our...

Arun Nukula

Jul 15, 2018

Removing an existing vRA License

Came across a situation where even though the product was licensed , it was stating that it's not found in the database. Re-applying same...

Arun Nukula

Jun 28, 2018

Healthchecks for vRealize Automation 7.x

List of health URL's which can be used during vRealize Automation troubleshooting Horizon System Health URL: https://<<vra-va-fqdn>/SAAS/...

Arun Nukula

Jun 15, 2018

Upgrade vROps 6.6.1 to 6.7 - Runbook

Pre-requisites Take a snapshot of all virtual appliances that make up your vROps cluster. Per VMware’s update instructions, you should...

Arun Nukula

Apr 25, 2018

vRA portal "Machine" tab exception

We get following exception by clicking on Machine tab on vRA portal Error while retrieving resources from provider [Infrastructure...

Arun Nukula

Mar 26, 2018

Manually deleting a directory in vRA 7.x

There might be situations where you would not be able to delete directory from vRA portal Recently, was working on a issue where vRA...

Arun Nukula

Mar 23, 2018

Remediation for Spectre Vulnerability

As you may be aware, VMware has released Spectre patches for ESXi and VC on 20th March, 2018. Related Articles Click to read...

Arun Nukula

Mar 22, 2018

vPostgres Database Failover Scenarios

Master Database constantly streams transactions to Replica servers Once Master fails, the active and working Replica is ready to proceed...

Arun Nukula

Feb 24, 2018

vRealize Automation Appliance High Availability

The vRealize Automation appliance supports active-active high availability for all components except the appliance database. Starting with the 7.3 release, database failover is automatic if three nodes are deployed and synchronous replication is configured between two nodes. When vRealize Automation appliance detects database failure, it promotes a suitable database server to be the master. You can monitor and manage the appliance database on the Virtual Appliance Management

Arun Nukula

Feb 24, 2018

Changing MTU value to causes VMNIC to flap

This morning, I was involved in an escalation where NIC flaps were seen on 6 out of 7 hosts on a brand new vxRail Cluster Looks like it...

Arun Nukula

Dec 18, 2017

Upgrading vRealize Automation

Recently I did work on a project to upgrade vRealize Automation from 7.0.1 to 7.3. I would like to share my experience on how the upgrade took place and various issues encountered while implementing it We had to execute upgrade in two phases Upgrade from 7.0.1 to 7.2 Once 7.2 validation is complete upgrade to 7.3 This was done in two phases because in-place upgrade between 7.0.1 to 7.3 is not supported Pre-Requisites Ensure Databases have been backed up. Both IaaS ( Co

Arun Nukula

Oct 30, 2017