Category Archives: High-Availability

Lookup service fails with the certificate error for external VMware solution like NSX Manager,VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager, VMware vSphere Replication or vSheild Manager.

Posted on April 2, 2016 by Ganadmin

Some solutions, such as VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager, VMware vSphere Replication, or vSheild Manager are always installed on a different machine than the associated vCenter Server system or Platform Services Controller that manages the certificates for the solution. If you … Continue reading →

Posted in Certificate, High-Availability, Replacing vCenter 6.0 SSL Certificate, vCSA 6.0, VMware, vShield, vSphere Replication VR | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Powershell script to re-point\fail-over the VC to another replication Platform Service Controller ( PSC – VCSA 6.0)

Posted on January 24, 2016 by Ganadmin

Check my other blog for more information on re-pointing the VC to the external PSC , In this blog we can see by using the powershell script to re-point\failover the VC to another replication PSC. We need cmsso-util to repoint PSC and … Continue reading →

Posted in F5 Load Balancer for PSC HA, High-Availability, Platform Services Controller (PSC ), Powershell, vCSA 6.0, VMware | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

Replacing vCenter 6.0 SSL Certificate.

Posted on September 27, 2015 by Ganadmin

To generate the certificate we need to have Microsoft Certificate Authority server with the vSphere 6.0 Template for SSL Certificate.Pls check my other blog on creating the new template for vSphere 6.0. update 04\02\2016 Before proceeding to change the certificate, … Continue reading →

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Creating a new Template for vSphere 6.0 to use for Machine SSL and Solution User certificate.

Posted on September 18, 2015 by Ganadmin

Pls check my previous blogs about the PSC , F5 PSC LB, vCSA installation and PSC AD configuration. Login to the windows CA issuing server and type certtmpl.msc which starts up the Certificate Templates Console. Go to the Templates folder , right … Continue reading →

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Install and Configure VMware vCSA 6.0 with External Platform Service Controller ( PSC )

Posted on September 4, 2015 by Ganadmin

Pls check my previous blog about Installing the PSC and Configuring the F5 Load Balancer and in this blog we can see the installation of the vCSA and configuring it with the External PSC. Before Starting the Installation it is … Continue reading →

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F5 Load Balancer Configuration for the HA Platform Services Controller ( PSC )

Posted on September 2, 2015 by Ganadmin

Pls check my previous blog on configuring the PSC  in HA and here we can see the F5 configuration for the load balancer. Node 1: PSCSSO1.domain.local\10.10.10.1 Node2:PSCSSO2.domain.local\10.10.10.2 LB: PSCSSO.domain.local\10.10.10.3 We need to download the lb.p12 file from the ha Folder … Continue reading →

Posted in Certificate, High-Availability, Platform Services Controller (PSC ), Vcenter Appliance, vCSA 6.0, VMware | Tagged , , , , | 1 Comment

Deploying Platform Services Controller ( PSC ) in HA mode behind a Load Balancer.

Posted on April 20, 2015 by Ganadmin

In this blog we can see the configuration of High Availability External Platform Services Controller ( PSC ) Appliance .A fresh, or new, vCenter Single Sign-On high availability deployment is recommended when there are multiple vCenter Server systems or vCenter … Continue reading →

Posted in Certificate, High-Availability, Platform Services Controller (PSC ), SSO, vCSA 6.0, VMware | Tagged , , , | 2 Comments

Deploying a Centralized VMware vCenter Single Sign-On 5.5 with Microsoft Network Load Balancer.

Posted on April 1, 2015 by Ganadmin

This blog is about configuring the vCenter SSO LB using the Microsoft Load-Balancing Manager , I have noticed that lot of blog and KB mentioning about the configuration of the LB using F5 , Citrix NetScalar and VMware Edge but … Continue reading →

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