Author Archives: Ganadmin

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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Some of the free stuffs which we can use it during this COVID-19 lockdown

Posted on April 5, 2020 by Ganadmin

Some of the free stuffs are available which is in the list below and hoping it will help during this tough period. Pluralsight  https://www.pluralsight.com/offer/2020/free-april-month Google Cloud: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/training-certifications/expanding-at-home-learning Docker: https://portal.cloudskills.io/docker-jumpstart Books: Kindle Free https://landing.google.com/sre/books/ UDEMY https://www.udemy.com/introduction-to-serverlessaws/ https://www.udemy.com/amazon-web-services-aws-cloudformati…/ JENKINS https://www.udemy.com/working-with-jenkins/ https://www.udemy.com/jenkins-beginner-tutorial-step-by-st…/ https://www.udemy.com/jenkins-quick-start/ … Continue reading →

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Bug in network introspection driver (vnetflt.sys) VMtools 11265 (11.0.1)

Posted on February 13, 2020 by Ganadmin

Recently we have upgraded the VMtools version from 10.305\10.346 to 11265 – 11.0.1 and we noticed few VMs went to hung status and noticed the below alert in windows VMs. vmware.log: 2020-02-07T12:50:58.182Z| vcpu-0| I125: Guest: vsep: AUDIT: VFileSocketMgrCloseSocket : Mux … Continue reading →

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Useful links on EC2\FSX with new features

Posted on January 31, 2020 by Ganadmin

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/11/amazon-fsx-for-windows-file-server-adds-support-for-high-availability-microsoft-sql-server-deployments/ https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/11/amazon-ec2-auto-scaling-supports-max-instance-lifetime/ https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/11/amazon-ec2-auto-scaling-supports-instance-weighting/ https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/11/amazon-fsx-windows-file-server-supports-managing-file-shares-via-powershell/ https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/12/amazon-ec2-spot-now-provides-instance-launch-notifications-via-amazon-cloudwatch-events/

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Memories of 2019

Posted on December 31, 2019 by Ganadmin

2019 started with the lot of new surprises in the company roadmap and one of the main change is to move the on-perm to the cloud which means reducing the VMware footprint. Initially it was tough to accept the change … Continue reading →

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VCSA6.5 failed to login using AD credentials

Posted on November 30, 2019 by Ganadmin

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 … Continue reading →

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Error while migrating vSphere VMs to Amazon with AWS Server Migration Service

Posted on September 30, 2019 by Ganadmin

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 … Continue reading →

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