Author Archives: Ganadmin

IP customization is falling on RHEL 5 and 6 VM with SRM 8.3.1

Posted on October 31, 2021 by Ganadmin

Below is the issue we have faced after upgrading the SRM to 8.3.1 IP customization is falling on RHEL 5 and 6 VM with SRM 8.3.1 IP customization previous worked on these RHEL versions with SRM 6.5 IP customization work with RHEL 7 VMs … Continue reading →

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Bug in vCenter running AMD EPYC Zen3 (Milan)AMD and EPYC 7713.

Posted on September 30, 2021 by Ganadmin

Recently we moved to AMD EPYC 7713 64 with Dell R6525 and noticed ESXi hosts showing 100% CPU and it is keep on intermittently fluctuating . When we checked the performance in ESXTOP it was very low and in our … Continue reading →

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Guest OS Hung for GPU Enabled VMs

Posted on August 31, 2021 by Ganadmin

We are having NVIDIATesla V100-PCIE-32GB running SYS-1029GQ-TRT and for past few months we are facing the issue on VMs getting hung and it went to black screen and only option is to reboot the VM. Below are the details of … Continue reading →

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Root cause for the VPXD Crash issue

Posted on July 31, 2021 by Ganadmin

Previous post I have explained about the vCenter and VPXD crash issue , after lot of research VMware support confirmed that the issue is because of the  Likewise failure that is fixed and pushed in 6.7 U3M, since VMware patches … Continue reading →

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VC6.7 U3 VPXD crash issue.

Posted on June 30, 2021 by Ganadmin

Every week we had VC down issue and when we login using the SSH , noticed the VPXD service was stopped and when tried to stop it was getting failed. Using the vMon log , noticed it was showing the … Continue reading →

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Tips to check VCSA sessions.

Posted on May 31, 2021 by Ganadmin

Below grep NumSessions shows the currently active sessions on the vpxd profiler. The longer query showing HttpSessionObject is checking for all HTTP sessions that were created over a certain period of time. The HttpSessionObject notes a unique session at a … Continue reading →

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Issue on SSH login to the ESXi 6.7 host with the AD user account

Posted on April 30, 2021 by Ganadmin

We were not able to login to the ESXi ssh using the AD account and when we tried to leave the account or add the domain it is getting failed. [root@esx:~] /usr/lib/vmware/likewise/bin/domainjoin-cli join prd.com admin – While adding the host … Continue reading →

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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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