Category Archives: VMware

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Below is the list of the blogs which helped me to gain knowledge on some new technologies in 2018. Migrate vSphere VMs to Amazon with AWS Server Migration Service http://mistwire.com/2017/09/use-aws-lambda-to-schedule-instance-startsstops-and-save-some-money/ Using Packer to Create vSphere and AWS Images Use Amazon CloudWatch Logs … Continue reading

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Tips to edit the .vmdk (descriptor file)

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)

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.

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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