VCSA6.5 failed to login using AD credentials

Posted on November 30, 2019 by

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 , noticed the below error.

2019-11-25T16:08:43.717Z vsphere.local        8d2b3655-340a-46db-b879-5b680911c743 ERROR] [IdentityManager] Failed to authenticate principal [ADUSER@ADDOMAIN] for tenant [vsphere.local]com.vmware.identity.interop.idm.IdmNativeException: Native platform error [code: 851968][null][null]

atcom.vmware.identity.interop.idm.LinuxIdmNativeAdapter.AuthenticateByPassword(LinuxIdmNativeAdapter.java:180)
atcom.vmware.identity.idm.server.provider.activedirectory.ActiveDirectoryProvider.authenticate(ActiveDirectoryProvider.java:279)
atcom.vmware.identity.idm.server.IdentityManager.authenticate(IdentityManager.java:2777)
atcom.vmware.identity.idm.server.IdentityManager.authenticate(IdentityManager.java:9145)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor29.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.rmi.server.UnicastServerRef.dispatch(Unknown Source)
at sun.rmi.transport.Transport$2.run(Unknown Source)
at sun.rmi.transport.Transport$2.run(Unknown Source)

We tried by rebooting the VC and also removing and adding the AD , even-though we are able to search the AD objects but the authentication was getting failed and finally  the below steps  fixed the issue.

  1. Removed the VC from the domain.
  2.  Deleted the computer account from the AD
  3.  Re-added the VC back to the domain.
  4.  Rebooted the VC, tested connection which was working fine.
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Error while migrating vSphere VMs to Amazon with AWS Server Migration Service

Posted on September 30, 2019 by

By the help of the link , configured the AWS Server Migration Service and at final stage of the sync it got failed with the error ” Instance failed to boot and establish network connectivity”

So we stopped all the non-microsoft services on the windows instance and tried the sync and it got completed successfully.

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Useful links to refer the CloudFormation functions.

Posted on August 31, 2019 by

AWS CloudFormation Templates – Sample CloudFormation templates, solutions, and snippets

CloudFormation::Init Documentation

Using AWS CloudFormer – Introduction and walkthrough for AWS CloudFormer

List of Services Supported in CloudFormation

JSON Formatter and Validator – Free tool for validating JSON templates

How to Use Nested Stacks – How to modularize your CloudFormation stacks

Conditionally-launch-aws-cloudformation-resources-based-on-user-input

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Solution for the SMB1 AD Authentication issue – ESXi 6.5U3 update

Posted on July 31, 2019 by

As per my previous blog on SMB1 AD authentication issue in 6.5u1 , VMware communicated that it will be fixed  after the 6.7 U2 update but it looks like in the recent 6.5 U3 update it got fixed.In the release notes they mentioned some fix related to AD and we tested with few hosts and able to connect the AD now without issue.

https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.5/rn/vsphere-esxi-65u3-release-notes.html

PR 2268193: Managing the Active Directory lwsmd service from the Host Client or vSphere Web Client might fail

Managing the Active Directory lwsmd service from the Host Client or vSphere Web Client might fail with the following error: Failed – A general system error occurred: Command /etc/init.d/lwsmd timed out after 30 secs.

This issue is resolved in this release.

Before:

 VMware ESXi 6.5.0 build-8294253

VMware ESXi 6.5.0 Update 2

After:

VMware ESXi 6.5.0 build-13932383

VMware ESXi 6.5.0 Update 3

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VCSA Shell is disabled.

Posted on June 30, 2019 by

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 full.
  • Released some space in both partitions and rebooted the VCSA
  • We were able to SSH into the VCSA , however found vmware-cm service was failing to start with below error:

Stderr = su: cannot not open session: Permission denied 

  • Checked root expiration date and found it was expired.
  • Reset root password.
  • Restarted services, but issue continue.
  • Tried rebooting the VCSA
  • All the services came up.
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Useful links on various AWS topics

Posted on May 31, 2019 by

Centralized Logging – AWS Answers | https://aws.amazon.com/answers/logging/centralized-logging/

AWS Developer Forums: Discussion Forums | https://forums.aws.amazon.com/index.jspa

Amazon Web Services – Labs · GitHub | https://github.com/awslabs

GitHub – awslabs/aws-shell: An integrated shell for working with the AWS CLI. | https://github.com/awslabs/aws-shell

Region Table | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/regional-product-services/

AWS Regions and Endpoints – Amazon Web Services | https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/rande.html

AWS Service Limits – Amazon Web Services | https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/aws_service_limits.html

AWS IP Address Ranges – Amazon Web Services | https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/aws-ip-ranges.html

Error Retries and Exponential Backoff in AWS – Amazon Web Services |https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/api-retries.html

Cloud Solutions by Application – Amazon Web Services (AWS) | https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/

AWS – Application Architecture Center | https://aws.amazon.com/architecture/

AWS Simple Icons | https://aws.amazon.com/architecture/icons/

Compliance Programs – Amazon Web Services (AWS) | https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/programs/

Case Studies & Customer Success – Amazon Web Services (AWS) | https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies

AWS Certification – AWS Cloud Computing Certification Program | https://aws.amazon.com/certification/

CI/CD on AWS

https://aws-quickstart.s3.amazonaws.com/quickstart-trek10-serverless-enterprise-cicd/doc/serverless-cicd-for-the-enterprise-on-the-aws-cloud.pdf

EC2 Template-  https://templates.cloudonaut.io/en/stable/ec2/

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EVC Mode on cluster for encryption

Posted on April 30, 2019 by

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 different from the environment A and B  the issue is when the data is copied locally .

Later we noticed when we change the EVC Mode from Intel Nehalem Generation to Intel Ivy Bridge a good performance improvement.

From the VMware blog  , it is mentioned that ” For most enterprise applications you can see there is no, or an almost immeasurable, performance impact when using EVC. But, there are certain corner cases, like encryption, that are crippled when instructions sets like AES-NI set are not available (Example: Oracle Transparent Data Encryption, OpenSSL)” so our data in POC is also encrypted and to make sure we setup the test VM and configured the Apache for the speed test with SSL on port 1000.

The htdocs folder was in localdisk (tintri NFS datastore) and tested with localdisk (local SAS disk datastore)

dlspeed=$(echo -n “scale=0; ” && curl -k https://localserver:1000/100MBfile -w “%{speed_download}” -o /dev/null -s | sed “s/\,/\./g” && echo “/1048576”); echo “$dlspeed” | bc -q

EVC mode disabled – 136MB/s 

EVC mode with “Intel Ivy Bridge” – 183MB/s

EVC mode with “Intel Nehalem Generation” – 41MB/s

As per the VMware Blog also they mentioned the test result and for encryption there is a huge different so when setting up the new cluster , we should understand the type of application and traffic type , based on that we have t select the cluster EVC mode.

Note : Anything above Nehalem Generation wont be supported by VMware 7.0 version for HP Gen8 old hardware models so pls check the VMware compatible guide and choose the EVC mode.

Refer:

https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/techpaper/vmware-vsphere-evc-performance-white-paper.pdf

https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2014/06/enhanced-vmotion-compatibility-evc-affect-performance.html

Intel CPU EVC Matrix (VMware Enhanced vMotion Compatibility)

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