Author Archives: Ganadmin

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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Useful links to refer the CloudFormation functions.

Posted on August 31, 2019 by Ganadmin

AWS CloudFormation Templates – Sample CloudFormation templates, solutions, and snippets CloudFormation::Init Documentation Using AWS CloudFormer – Introduction and walkthrough for AWS CloudFormer List of Services Supported in CloudFormation JSON Formatter and Validator – Free tool for validating JSON templates How to Use Nested … Continue reading →

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Solution for the SMB1 AD Authentication issue – ESXi 6.5U3 update

Posted on July 31, 2019 by Ganadmin

As per my previous blog on SMB1 AD authentication issue in 6.5u1 , VMware communicated that it will be fixed  after the 6.7 U2 update but it looks like in the recent 6.5 U3 update it got fixed.In the release … Continue reading →

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VCSA Shell is disabled.

Posted on June 30, 2019 by Ganadmin

One of our VC is down because of the space issue and not able to login to the Shell. Followed the below steps to fix the same. Accessed the VCSA on Grub mode Found “/” and /storage/log partitions were full. … Continue reading →

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Useful links on various AWS topics

Posted on May 31, 2019 by Ganadmin

Centralized Logging – AWS Answers | https://aws.amazon.com/answers/logging/centralized-logging/ AWS Developer Forums: Discussion Forums | https://forums.aws.amazon.com/index.jspa Amazon Web Services – Labs · GitHub | https://github.com/awslabs GitHub – awslabs/aws-shell: An integrated shell for working with the AWS CLI. | https://github.com/awslabs/aws-shell Region Table | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/regional-product-services/ AWS Regions and Endpoints … Continue reading →

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