Author Archives: Ganadmin

Steps to upgrade the vCSA (PSC\VC ) 6.0 to 6.5.

Posted on November 16, 2016 by Ganadmin

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 vsphere will support the 6.5 version. Update 3/16/2017: As … Continue reading →

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vdcrepadmin to find the replication status and design the Platform Services Controller 6.0

Posted on October 31, 2016 by Ganadmin

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 connects to each other in an in-line … Continue reading →

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MLAG issue on CISCO UCS Servers with Arista switch

Posted on September 10, 2016 by Ganadmin

We were trying to configure the MLAG on the Arista switch on each uplink group of the CISCO UCS ( UCSC-C240-M3s) server . Initially ESXi 6.0 was installed and when we trying to enable the LACP on the dVswitch , host … Continue reading →

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Powershell Script to check the DNS Server IPs for the windows 2012 servers in AD.

Posted on August 31, 2016 by Ganadmin

I was asked to get the details in one of our old environment to get the DNS settings for a list of Server 2012 R2 servers in the AD and If the third octet on the primary DNS server setting … Continue reading →

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Active Director user denied to ESXi SSH login – ESXi 6.0 ( 3620759)

Posted on July 13, 2016 by Ganadmin

After configuring the AD authentication on the ESXi 6.0 as per the KB 2075361 , we were not able to login to the ESX shell using the AD Authentication . From the /var/log/ auth.log , we have noticed the below error. pam_access(sshd:auth): access … Continue reading →

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Trend Micro Deep Security Manager 9.6 ( service pack 1 upgrade ) – Part 5

Posted on July 5, 2016 by Ganadmin

Check my previous blog on DSM database schema changes which have to be done before upgrading the Trend DSM 9.6 to SP1 and also other blogs about DSM 9.5 and 9.6 installation and its functionality. Download the Trend DSM SP1. Click … Continue reading →

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Manually updating the Deep Security Manager (DSM) database before upgrading to 9.6 SP1 – Part -4

Posted on July 4, 2016 by Ganadmin

Check my other blog on Trend DSM 9.5 and 9.6 and in this blog we can see how to manually  perform  DSM database schema changes which required to upgrade the Trend DSM 9.6 SP1 or with the latest patch. These changes … Continue reading →

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Various options to enable the Telnet client and other methods to check the port.

Posted on June 19, 2016 by Ganadmin

In recent version of windows, Telnet Client is not enabled by default and in this blog we can see various method to install the client and to check the port connectivity. Option 1 : we can install it from the … Continue reading →

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VMware KB articles with no resolution for few known Issues in Vsphere 6.0 and workaround to fix.

Posted on May 30, 2016 by Ganadmin

Check my other blog for the VC6.0 installation issues and here in this blog , I want to highlight VMware KB articles mentioned as no resolution for certain known issues but with some workaround to fix and also few issues … Continue reading →

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How to enable monitoring for the vShield Endpoint communication with ESX module.

Posted on May 12, 2016 by Ganadmin

Pls check my other blogs about Trend DSM 9.5 and 9.6  and here we can find how to enable the monitoring for the vShield Endpoint when it lost communication with ESX module. Login to the VC which vShield Manager is connected. we … Continue reading →

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