Category Archives: VMware

SRM IP customization issue on Redhat VMs

Posted on March 31, 2019 by

During the DR test we have noticed that few of  the Redhat  5\6\7 VMs were failing with various errors like ( “A general system error occurred: vix error codes = (3016,0)”,”Error – Timed out waiting for VMware Tools after 900 … Continue reading →

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Bug in VCSA 6.5 U1\U2 which failed with invalid credentials on AD authentication

Posted on February 28, 2019 by

On of our vCenter was having issue on connecting the AD users and when users trying to connect the VC , it will fail with the invalid credentials error. I have already mentioned few blogs about AD authentication  issue here … Continue reading →

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6.5u1 SMB1 issue with causes the AD authentication issue.

Posted on January 29, 2019 by

We had the AD authentication issue from the ESXi 6.5 U1 and tried various method mentioned in my previous blog but it got failed with all the options. Below is the error while trying to connect the host from the domainjoin-cl … Continue reading →

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2018 – Blogs which helped me to gain knowledge.

Posted on December 31, 2018 by

Below is the list of the blogs which helped me to gain knowledge on some new technologies in 2018. https://theithollow.com/2017/06/26/migrate-vsphere-vms-amazon-aws-server-migration-service/ http://mistwire.com/2017/09/use-aws-lambda-to-schedule-instance-startsstops-and-save-some-money/ https://theithollow.com/2017/03/06/using-packer-create-vsphere-aws-images/ https://theithollow.com/2017/12/11/use-amazon-cloudwatch-logs-metric-filters-send-alerts/ https://jsimon-public.s3.amazonaws.com/reinvent2017.html https://www.portal.reinvent.awsevents.com/connect/search.ww#loadSearch-searchPhrase=vmware&searchType=session&tc=0&sortBy=abbreviationSort&p=%3Fsc_channel https://cloud.vmware.com/community/2017/12/04/using-aws-vpc-endpoint-access-data-s3-spark-vmware-cloud-aws-2/ https://acloud.guru/courses https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/developer/announcing-lambda-support-for-powershell-core/?sc_channel=sm&sc_campaign=Serverless,Developer_Blog&sc_publisher=TWITTER&sc_country=SDK&sc_geo=GLOBAL&sc_outcome=awareness&trk=_TWITTER&sc_content=PowerShell&sc_category=AWS_Lambda&linkId=56724189 https://sqldbawithabeard.com/2018/12/24/running-windows-and-linux-sql-containers-together/ https://code.vmware.com/samples?id=5121 https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2018/12/the-vsphere-upgrade-blog-series-wrap-up.html https://docs.microsoft.com/en-au/azure/architecture/aws-professional/?wt.mc_id=MVP https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2018/10/vcenter-server-windows-migrations.html https://graham-beer.github.io/2018/AWS-Lambda-with-PowerShell-1/ https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/teamblog/introducing-ms-learn?wt.mc_id=docsmsft-twitter https://vports.info/ports/ https://vmiss.net/2018/09/19/how-to-get-started-with-vmware-vsphere-security/ https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/site-recovery/migrate-tutorial-windows-server-2008 https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2018/09/introduction-to-automating-your-vsphere-upgrade.html?src=so_5a314d0604f0c&cid=70134000001SluU https://domalab.com/copy-files-veeam-console/?platform=hootsuite … Continue reading →

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Tips to edit the .vmdk (descriptor file)

Posted on November 30, 2018 by

We are in the situation to change the scsi adapter detail in the disk vmdk (descriptor file) and the count of the VM list is very high so used the below steps to change it on the multiples VMs. Log-in … Continue reading →

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Tips to update the certificate request with SANs (subject alternative names)

Posted on October 31, 2018 by

When we deploy our custom certificate in the https://<vrops>/admin UI, vROps will take care of distribute that same certificate to all vROps nodes. Because vROps uses one certificate for all nodes, we must have every nodes’ IP address and FQDN … Continue reading →

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Inactive VMs in SRM recovery.

Posted on September 30, 2018 by

We were testing the SRM recovery and noticed few VMs are skipped during the testing without any error and when we generated the logs ,skipped  VMs were showing as inactive. After few investigation we have noticed that the Guest OS … Continue reading →

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