Blogtober

Update 27th October 2018: I was meant to provide this update last weekend, but it has been a hectic week. Within a few hours of posting this issue, a few people at VMware reached out to me to understand more about my configuration, asked me to upload the logs and a few of the smart guys and gals at VMware had been able to reproduce the issue. As it turns out, the key in the APPLMGMT_PASSWORD vecs store is used when a file based backup of the VCSA is scheduled. I believe a KB is on the way, but the workaround is to delete the VCSA backup schedule, perform the converge and you can then re-enable the schedule after the converge is complete. ...

And here we are, at the end of October. Before I get in to it, I signed up for Blogtober a few weeks ago, and this is shamefully my first post for Blogtober, and I’m writing this on the 25th of the month. Let’s see if I can get 5 posts out by the end of the month! Anyhow, it’s that time of the year again and vForum Australia 2017 is just around the corner. In fact, it’s next Thursday the 2nd of November. If you live in Sydney or have the luxury of jumping on a plane for a day or two, I’d highly recommend heading along to vForum. ...