Category Archives: VMware

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

Posted on July 31, 2019 by

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

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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EVC Mode on cluster for encryption

Posted on April 30, 2019 by

In our POC for our new application , noticed the significant differences on the performance on two different environment which is running on same hardware model.Even though the network layer is different from the environment A and B  the issue … Continue reading →

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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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