Category Archives: VMware

VMware support log size issue and workaround (VCSA ).

Posted on July 9, 2017 by Ganadmin

In our environment we have around 12 VCSA 6.0 U2 ( vCenter  Appliance)  in different region with various sizes , most of our environment will be running with around 20-25 ESXi hosts in two or three clusters and  800 – … Continue reading →

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Powercli script to validate the basic vSphere Hardening

Posted on June 18, 2017 by Ganadmin

Last month I was working in a security hardening project and implemented as per the standard recommended by the VMware. We have to show to our internal security team that  all the vsphere environment is protected as per the VMware … Continue reading →

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Trend Micro Deep Security ( Event Based Tasks to activate the VMs)

Posted on May 5, 2017 by Ganadmin

Pls check my other blogs on DSM 9.5 and 9.6 and here we can see the steps to activate the VMs when it moved using vMotion to one host to another which will help when we want to activate the … Continue reading →

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Supermicro bug on running VMs in Nested method.

Posted on April 29, 2017 by Ganadmin

One of our internal cloud environment which is running ESXi hosts under SuperMicro ( SYS-1027GR ) got failed with the PSOD referencing Fatal (unrecoverable) MCE on one of physical CPU .It happened almost all the ESX hosts on the cluster frequently … Continue reading →

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vSphere client and Powercli fails to connect vCenter after TLSv1.0 disabled.

Posted on March 20, 2017 by Ganadmin

As per the KB 2148819 , TLSv1.0 has been disabled from the VC and issue started to connect the VC from the desktop client and also using the powercli . Error from the Desktop client: Error from the Powercli Using the … Continue reading →

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Primary\Secondary DNS IP Fail-Over bug in VMware vCenter Server Appliance 6.0 Update 2 ( VCSA U2)

Posted on February 20, 2017 by Ganadmin

We have the PRD setup with external PSC and VC which is configured with the Primary DNS and Secondary DNS . Due to the hardware issue on our primary DNS server , it went down and we couldn’t connect the … Continue reading →

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Steps to upgrade the vCSA (PSC\VC ) 6.0 to 6.5.

Posted on November 16, 2016 by Ganadmin

Read the KB 2147548 \ KB 2147686 before upgrading the vshpere environment for the Compatibility considerations and also for the best practices to make sure all the products which is connected to the vsphere will support the 6.5 version. Update 3/16/2017: As … Continue reading →

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vdcrepadmin to find the replication status and design the Platform Services Controller 6.0

Posted on October 31, 2016 by Ganadmin

After attending the VMworld PSC session , I was thinking about to test the VDCREPADMIN tool which helps to find the replication status and to re-desgin the PSC. Currently we have three PSCs which connects to each other in an in-line … Continue reading →

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MLAG issue on CISCO UCS Servers with Arista switch

Posted on September 10, 2016 by Ganadmin

We were trying to configure the MLAG on the Arista switch on each uplink group of the CISCO UCS ( UCSC-C240-M3s) server . Initially ESXi 6.0 was installed and when we trying to enable the LACP on the dVswitch , host … Continue reading →

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Active Director user denied to ESXi SSH login – ESXi 6.0 ( 3620759)

Posted on July 13, 2016 by Ganadmin

After configuring the AD authentication on the ESXi 6.0 as per the KB 2075361 , we were not able to login to the ESX shell using the AD Authentication . From the /var/log/ auth.log , we have noticed the below error. pam_access(sshd:auth): access … Continue reading →

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