Author Archives: Ganadmin

Tip to check the ESXi\vCenter errors using the Splunk.

Posted on March 31, 2021 by Ganadmin

Recently we had “All path down issue” in one of our host and I was looking to find how many events and how long this issue was there in host and identified the below steps in the Splunk in which … Continue reading →

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Bug noticed on VCSA 14367737 Syslog configuration.

Posted on February 28, 2021 by Ganadmin

We are running the VCSA 14367737 and it can’t be upgraded because we have the internal cloud stack on top of the vCenter and it supports only the VCSA version 14367737. I have tried forwarding the VCSA logs to the … Continue reading →

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Packet drop issue on HP Gen 9 \ Gen 10 servers running ESXi6.7.

Posted on January 31, 2021 by Ganadmin

We have noticed the packet drop on all of our HP BL460c Gen 9 \ Gen 10 across the region which is running ESXi, 6.7.0, 16316930 and the Network adapter presently installed on the server is HPE FlexFabric 10Gb 2-port 536FLB … Continue reading →

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Memories of 2020

Posted on December 31, 2020 by Ganadmin

We have started migrating our Tier-1 infrastructure to AWS and most of our internal applications have been moved to the cloud and learned lot of new AWS services and new technologies. Around SEP, I was requested to support our internal … Continue reading →

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Easy way to uninstall the Trend Deep Security agent.

Posted on November 30, 2020 by Ganadmin

I was searching the easy way to uninstall the Trend Agent on the windows 10 and find the below command useful. Get-Package -Name  “Trend Micro Deep Security Agent” | Uninstall-Package Or msiexec.exe /x <exact MSI package name>.msi /quiet Reference: https://success.trendmicro.com/solution/1055096-performing-silent-uninstallation-of-deep-security-agent-dsa-from-windows-machine

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AWS Compute related updates

Posted on October 31, 2020 by Ganadmin

AWS End of Support Migration Program for Windows Server now available as a self-serve solution for customers Resource Access Manager Support is now available on AWS Outposts New course for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service Amazon EKS now supports Kubernetes version 1.18 AWS Lambda Extensions: a new … Continue reading →

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Steps to blacklist the problematic DCs in VMware VCSA 6.7U3

Posted on September 21, 2020 by Ganadmin

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 … Continue reading →

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cfn-lint useful tool for the CloudFormation.

Posted on August 31, 2020 by Ganadmin

Recently had the chance to learn about the CFN-LINT tool which is a very useful tool to validate the CloudFormation template directly using the editor and it makes us create the CF without any error and secured. https://github.com/aws-cloudformation/cfn-python-lint

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vCenter VPXD crashes because of high memory.

Posted on July 31, 2020 by Ganadmin

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 stopped status. VMware … Continue reading →

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Steps to be taken while migrating the EC2 to different type.

Posted on June 30, 2020 by Ganadmin

We have migrated one of our EC2 instance from T2 to T3 and found there is a lack of performance on the server and when we had a call with AWS support they shared that the T3 type is based … Continue reading →

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