Category Archives: VMware

vCenter 8.0 upgrade issue and fixes. The error is pointing out to Content library, from the logs we verified that the cl_metadata table is corrupt. Solution Recommendation : Edited the vCenter Database, changed the cl_metadata table. Made changes to the … Continue reading

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NFS4 Slowness and Vcenter update 3f fixes the issue.

Pls check this blog which I explained about the NFS3 slowness and we were constantly testing every update and working with VMware. Recently we have upgraded the vCenter to update 3f and tested the NFS4 with NFS3 and we are … Continue reading

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VMware Licensing issue after the Broadcom portal migration

We already own the perpetual licensing for vSphere and after the migration we have noticed ESXi 8.0 license are started showing as end date and when we applied it to the new ESXi hosts it started showing the expire date … Continue reading

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 VMware Licensing for Java integration in VCSA appliance.

Under the new Java license policy either we need to buy new Java License for any software which use java or else corresponding software vendor should already own the license as part of the product. We have inquired with VMware … Continue reading

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ESXi host logs to Splunk issue got resolved in the latest VMware release, 7.0 Update 3o

We have noticed that our ESXI hosts are acting as Syslog clients and data from those hosts are being sent to our Syslog Server(port 6514) and then we are redirecting those logs  to Splunk. We noticed that ESXI host stops reporting … Continue reading

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Options to decrypt the VMs protected by VMware native key provider.

VC in which the native key provider was enabled got deleted and couldn’t recover it from the backup. Unfortunately, there is no other backup for the primary key.  The only option to recover is to clone VMs to remove the encryption and … Continue reading

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NFS4.1 datastore disconnected after the Netapp storage upgrade\failover.

Update Jun2024: Looks like issue has been fixed in Update 3f, pls check this blog. we have NFS-3 and NFS 4.1 presented to this ESXI hosts both are from the same Netapp storage. As part of the Netapp Storage upgrade failover was … Continue reading

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Adding an RDM LUN to the second node in the MSCS cluster fails with the error: Incompatible device backing specified for the device

Followed the document https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.5/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-651-setup-mscs.pdf to configure the windows cluster but it is getting failed with the error Tried a few VMware KB articles to fix the issue https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2054897 but all the options got failed and finally the issue got fixed … Continue reading

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vCenter CPU Usage reaches 3000 % in VIMTOP

The issue got started after upgrading the vCenter Server 7.0 Update 3h | 13 SEP 2022 | ISO Build 20395099. We have noticed the CPU of the VC went very high and couldn’t login to the VC. We tried a few options like … Continue reading

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Datastore with NFS4 slowness issue and Netapp\VMware findings.

Update: Pls check this blog and issue has been fixed. Already mentioned in my previous blog here about the NFS 4 slowness issue compared to the NFS3 and we captured the packets and worked with the Netapp, below are the … Continue reading

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