Category Archives: ESX command

Datastore with NFS4 slowness issue and Netapp\VMware findings.

Posted on October 20, 2022 by Ganadmin

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 findings of our test when we tried ls -lahR | … Continue reading →

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NFSv3 datastore is much faster than NFSv4

Posted on August 26, 2022 by Ganadmin

Recently we have noticed in a few datastore the search operation is taking more time than expected and in our testing, it was identified that compare to NFSv4, NFSv3 results are better. Our testing is to first list files from … 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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Tips to edit the .vmdk (descriptor file)

Posted on November 30, 2018 by Ganadmin

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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Options to check and alert the vcenter certificate expiration

Posted on October 9, 2017 by Ganadmin

Last week one of our vCenter went down because of the machine certificate got expired and it took some time to find out the issue so I thought it will be helpful to show the options to verify the certificate … Continue reading →

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Various options to enable the Telnet client and other methods to check the port.

Posted on June 19, 2016 by Ganadmin

In recent version of windows, Telnet Client is not enabled by default and in this blog we can see various method to install the client and to check the port connectivity. Option 1 : we can install it from the … Continue reading →

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Issue while moving ESX host from old VC5.1 to the new VCSA 6.0

Posted on March 27, 2016 by Ganadmin

We were doing the ESX Host (5.1 )  migration from the old windows VC5.1 to the new VC6.0 appliance , few hosts were having issue while adding it to the new VC and it got failed with the  Time-out Error … Continue reading →

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How to identify host , datastore and vCenter of the running VM .

Posted on March 13, 2016 by Ganadmin

when vCenter\PSC is running as the appliance on the  host configured in the same vCenter and in case of  the VM (vCenter\PSC)  failure, we need information about the VM running on which host,datastore to bring it back online. Also in … Continue reading →

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How to find which VMDK is associated with which disk in Windows Server.

Posted on June 19, 2015 by Ganadmin

1. Login to the client and edit the VM . 2. Select the Hardisk and note the SCSI ( 0:X ) 3. Login to the windows Guest VM – Go to the Disk-Management. 4. Right click the Disk and Go … Continue reading →

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