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2018 – Blogs which helped me to gain knowledge.

Posted on December 31, 2018

Below is the list of the blogs which helped me to gain knowledge on some new technologies in 2018. https://theithollow.com/2017/06/26/migrate-vsphere-vms-amazon-aws-server-migration-service/ http://mistwire.com/2017/09/use-aws-lambda-to-schedule-instance-startsstops-and-save-some-money/ https://theithollow.com/2017/03/06/using-packer-create-vsphere-aws-images/ https://theithollow.com/2017/12/11/use-amazon-cloudwatch-logs-metric-filters-send-alerts/ https://jsimon-public.s3.amazonaws.com/reinvent2017.html https://www.portal.reinvent.awsevents.com/connect/search.ww#loadSearch-searchPhrase=vmware&searchType=session&tc=0&sortBy=abbreviationSort&p=%3Fsc_channel https://cloud.vmware.com/community/2017/12/04/using-aws-vpc-endpoint-access-data-s3-spark-vmware-cloud-aws-2/ https://acloud.guru/courses https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/developer/announcing-lambda-support-for-powershell-core/?sc_channel=sm&sc_campaign=Serverless,Developer_Blog&sc_publisher=TWITTER&sc_country=SDK&sc_geo=GLOBAL&sc_outcome=awareness&trk=_TWITTER&sc_content=PowerShell&sc_category=AWS_Lambda&linkId=56724189 https://sqldbawithabeard.com/2018/12/24/running-windows-and-linux-sql-containers-together/ https://code.vmware.com/samples?id=5121 https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2018/12/the-vsphere-upgrade-blog-series-wrap-up.html https://docs.microsoft.com/en-au/azure/architecture/aws-professional/?wt.mc_id=MVP https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2018/10/vcenter-server-windows-migrations.html https://graham-beer.github.io/2018/AWS-Lambda-with-PowerShell-1/ https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/teamblog/introducing-ms-learn?wt.mc_id=docsmsft-twitter https://vports.info/ports/ https://vmiss.net/2018/09/19/how-to-get-started-with-vmware-vsphere-security/ https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/site-recovery/migrate-tutorial-windows-server-2008 https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2018/09/introduction-to-automating-your-vsphere-upgrade.html?src=so_5a314d0604f0c&cid=70134000001SluU https://domalab.com/copy-files-veeam-console/?platform=hootsuite … Continue reading →

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Tips to edit the .vmdk (descriptor file)

Posted on November 30, 2018

We are in the situation to change the scsi adapter detail in the disk vmdk (descriptor file) and the count of the VM list is very high so used the below steps to change it on the multiples VMs. Log-in … Continue reading →

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Tips to update the certificate request with SANs (subject alternative names)

Posted on October 31, 2018

When we deploy our custom certificate in the https://<vrops>/admin UI, vROps will take care of distribute that same certificate to all vROps nodes. Because vROps uses one certificate for all nodes, we must have every nodes’ IP address and FQDN … Continue reading →

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Inactive VMs in SRM recovery.

Posted on September 30, 2018

We were testing the SRM recovery and noticed few VMs are skipped during the testing without any error and when we generated the logs ,skipped  VMs were showing as inactive. After few investigation we have noticed that the Guest OS … Continue reading →

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Steps to identify the EC2 instance AWS account information

Posted on August 22, 2018

We have lot of accounts for each application in AWS  and few we will have rights and others restricted . Few cases like we have access to the SSH of the EC2 instance but not aware of  which AWS account … Continue reading →

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July MS patch issue and fix

Posted on July 30, 2018

We were encountered  few issue after the July month Microsoft patch KB4338814\KB4338815. After applying the patch users have reported about the DHCP issue and SQL fail-over cluster issue.On few servers we were not able to open the DHCP \ MS … Continue reading →

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Bug in some vSAN code that Logic Monitoring is polling

Posted on June 30, 2018

As per the below link  if we are using the Logic Monitoring for VSphere environment, It looks like due to a change in the server-side API behavior of VMware 6.5, could trigger host instability, or possibly a crash of an ESXi 6.5 host. https://communities.logicmonitor.com/topic/1945-fyi-lm-can-trigger-esxi-65-hostd-to-crash/?tab=comments#comment-4839 … Continue reading →

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