vdcrepadmin to find the replication status and design the Platform Services...
After attending the VMworld PSC session , I was thinking about to test the VDCREPADMIN tool which helps to find the replication status and to re-desgin the PSC. Currently we have three PSCs which...
View ArticleSteps to upgrade the vCSA (PSC\VC ) 6.0 to 6.5.
Read the KB 2147548 \ KB 2147686 before upgrading the vshpere environment for the Compatibility considerations and also for the best practices to make sure all the products which is connected to the...
View ArticleVMware support log size issue and workaround (VCSA ).
In our environment we have around 12 VCSA 6.0 U2 ( vCenter Appliance) in different region with various sizes , most of our environment will be running with around 20-25 ESXi hosts in two or three...
View ArticleMind-Map for dvSwitch.
My flight got delayed after the VMworld and have to spend few hours in the airport so just to make something interesting made this Mind-map for dvSwitch . Hope it will be helpful for the certificate...
View ArticleOptions to check and alert the vcenter certificate expiration
Last week one of our vCenter went down because of the machine certificate got expired and it took some time to find out the issue so I thought it will be helpful to show the options to verify the...
View ArticleVCSA 6.5 upgrade\Installation issues and fixes
Recently I have started upgrading the VC6.0 U3 ( VCSA ) to 6.5 U1 and encountered few issues so same like by previous blogs on VC6.0 issues , planned to do it for VC6.5 also and find the old blogs...
View Article6.5u1 SMB1 issue with causes the AD authentication issue.
We had the AD authentication issue from the ESXi 6.5 U1 and tried various method mentioned in my previous blog but it got failed with all the options. Below is the error while trying to connect the...
View ArticleBug in VCSA 6.5 U1\U2 which failed with invalid credentials on AD authentication
On of our vCenter was having issue on connecting the AD users and when users trying to connect the VC , it will fail with the invalid credentials error. I have already mentioned few blogs about AD...
View ArticleEVC Mode on cluster for encryption
In our POC for our new application , noticed the significant differences on the performance on two different environment which is running on same hardware model.Even though the network layer is...
View ArticleVCSA Shell is disabled.
One of our VC is down because of the space issue and not able to login to the Shell. Followed the below steps to fix the same. Accessed the VCSA on Grub mode Found “/” and /storage/log partitions were...
View ArticleVCSA6.5 failed to login using AD credentials
One of our vCenter was having issue to login using the AD Credentials . We verified the DNS and the other VC ‘s which connects to the same DNS and AD , found no issues. When we checked the websso.log ,...
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Bug in network introspection driver (vnetflt.sys) VMtools 11265 (11.0.1)
Recently we have upgraded the VMtools version from 10.305\10.346 to 11265 – 11.0.1 and we noticed few VMs went to hung status and noticed the below alert in windows VMs. vmware.log:...
View ArticlevCenter VPXD crashes because of high memory.
We have a vcenter environment with around 500 ESXi hosts running on multiple clusters and for the past several weeks we had the issue of Vcetner down because of VPXD crash and the service will be in...
View ArticleSteps to blacklist the problematic DCs in VMware VCSA 6.7U3
We had a DNS issue in one of the DC running active directory integrated DNS service and it caused our vCenter to fail to connect the domain in AD so we have changed the DNS to the IPs which is...
View ArticleVC6.7 U3 VPXD crash issue.
Every week we had VC down issue and when we login using the SSH , noticed the VPXD service was stopped and when tried to stop it was getting failed. Using the vMon log , noticed it was showing the...
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Adding an RDM LUN to the second node in the MSCS cluster fails with the...
Followed the document https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.5/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-651-setup-mscs.pdf to configure the windows cluster but it is getting failed with the error Tried a few...
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vCenter 8.0 upgrade issue and fixes. Content library service was failing in the firstboot start phase. The error is pointing out to Content library, from the logs we verified that the cl_metadata...
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