Month: September 2026

It’s Always DNS: Debugging a VCF Management Services Bootstrap Failure during 9.1.1 bringup

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In an effort to adopt signed certificates in my lab, I decided to do a fresh bringup on a domain I own rather than some random one I made up for my lab, for example:Old: wilson.labNew: mydomain.com For mydomain.com, to save having to create manual DNS entry for new services I bring up outside of … Read more

VCF 9.1.1 – SDDC Manager backup location fails with gateway timeout 504 error

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I run SFTPGo in a container for my VCF file based backups, the reason is I want a clear security boundary for what VCF can (and cannot) access within my home. SFTPGo is a neat tool and it facilitates this boundary very well. Throughout VCF 5.x and in 9, I’ve been using it as a … Read more