Author Archives: Ganadmin

 VMware Licensing for Java integration in VCSA appliance.

Posted on April 30, 2024 by Ganadmin

Under the new Java license policy either we need to buy new Java License for any software which use java or else corresponding software vendor should already own the license as part of the product. We have inquired with VMware … Continue reading →

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Azure DevTest Labs User

Posted on January 31, 2024 by Ganadmin

One of the use cases is to allow the QA team users to access the image and deeply the VM with no permission to the Azure portal and other resources. DevTest Labs User from Azure looks satisfying the below requirements.

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ESXi host logs to Splunk issue got resolved in the latest VMware release, 7.0 Update 3o

Posted on November 30, 2023 by Ganadmin

We have noticed that our ESXI hosts are acting as Syslog clients and data from those hosts are being sent to our Syslog Server(port 6514) and then we are redirecting those logs  to Splunk. We noticed that ESXI host stops reporting … Continue reading →

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Options to decrypt the VMs protected by VMware native key provider.

Posted on August 31, 2023 by Ganadmin

VC in which the native key provider was enabled got deleted and couldn’t recover it from the backup. Unfortunately, there is no other backup for the primary key.  The only option to recover is to clone VMs to remove the encryption and … Continue reading →

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NFS4.1 datastore disconnected after the Netapp storage upgrade\failover.

Posted on July 16, 2023 by Ganadmin

Update Jun2024: Looks like issue has been fixed in Update 3f, pls check this blog. we have NFS-3 and NFS 4.1 presented to this ESXI hosts both are from the same Netapp storage. As part of the Netapp Storage upgrade failover was … Continue reading →

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Azcopy CONCURRENCY VALUE

Posted on May 31, 2023 by Ganadmin

As per MS normal azcopy depends on the CPU but blob to blob is serverto server APIs so as use AZCOPY_CONCURRENCY_VALUE= more than 1000. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/common/storage-use-azcopy-optimize?toc=%2Fazure%2Fstorage%2Fblobs%2Ftoc.json#increase-the-number-of-concurrent-requests ” If you’re copying blobs between storage accounts, consider setting the value of the AZCOPY_CONCURRENCY_VALUE environment variable … Continue reading →

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Adding an RDM LUN to the second node in the MSCS cluster fails with the error: Incompatible device backing specified for the device

Posted on April 30, 2023 by Ganadmin

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 VMware KB articles to fix the issue https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2054897 but all the options got failed and finally the issue got fixed … Continue reading →

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Deploy Diagnostic Settings for Azure Function to Event Hub

Posted on February 28, 2023 by Ganadmin

Azure policy to set the diagnostic Settings for Azure Function to Event Hub so that all the events will be routed to the corresponding event hub. Azure policy can automate this process and for resources that already exist, a remediation … Continue reading →

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Deploy Diagnostic Settings for Storage Analytics to Event Hub.

Posted on January 31, 2023 by Ganadmin

{ “properties”: { “displayName”: “Deploy Diagnostic Settings for Storage Analytics to Event Hub”, “policyType”: “Custom”, “mode”: “Indexed”, “metadata”: { “createdBy”: “9e1a4c2c-4a14-468c-bad0-0ed38afbb990”, “createdOn”: “2023-01-17T02:48:32.7901427Z”, “updatedBy”: null, “updatedOn”: null, “category”: “Storage” }, “parameters”: { “eventHubRuleId”: { “type”: “String”, “metadata”: { “displayName”: “Event … Continue reading →

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vCenter CPU Usage reaches 3000 % in VIMTOP

Posted on December 23, 2022 by Ganadmin

The issue got started after upgrading the vCenter Server 7.0 Update 3h | 13 SEP 2022 | ISO Build 20395099. We have noticed the CPU of the VC went very high and couldn’t login to the VC. We tried a few options like … Continue reading →

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