Category Archives: VMware

Unregister vSphere Replication from vCenter Server if the Appliance Was Deleted

Posted on January 28, 2016 by Ganadmin

vSphere replication Appliance was deleted without properly  unregistered it from the vCenter and each time when we login in to the web-client it was searching for the vSphere Replication ( VR ) Appliance and it slowing down the web-client. There … Continue reading →

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Powershell script to re-point\fail-over the VC to another replication Platform Service Controller ( PSC – VCSA 6.0)

Posted on January 24, 2016 by Ganadmin

Check my other blog for more information on re-pointing the VC to the external PSC , In this blog we can see by using the powershell script to re-point\failover the VC to another replication PSC. We need cmsso-util to repoint PSC and … Continue reading →

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Powershell script to find which platform service controller ( PSC ) is pointing to my vCenter appliance VCSA -6.0

Posted on January 24, 2016 by Ganadmin

We have two PSCs  which points to multiple VCs running in our environment and always   there will be a question that which PSC is pointing to which VC and there is easy way to find it using the web-client … Continue reading →

Posted in Platform Services Controller (PSC ), PowerCLI, Powershell, Vcenter Appliance, vCSA 6.0, VMware | Tagged , , , | 1 Comment

Trend Micro Deep Security Manager 9.6 \ windows 10 support – part 2

Posted on January 17, 2016 by Ganadmin

Pls see my other blogs on Trend DSM 9.5 and 9.6 upgrade. Now we can see the recommendations and updates for windows 10. When Trend DSM 9.6 version was available for the download it was said that around NOV 2015 it … Continue reading →

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VMware vCenter Server Appliance 6.0 Update 1b installation issue – stuck at 70%

Posted on January 8, 2016 by Ganadmin

When we are installing the vCenter update using the web-client ( https://VCFQDN:5480 ) it got stuck at 70%. We waited around 10 – 15 mins but nothing happened and finally rebooted the VC appliance and once it came up found … Continue reading →

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Powershell to get the graph report of VMware VMs configured Memory.

Posted on December 26, 2015 by Ganadmin

Found the below blog which explains to get the report using powershell in graph pattern so wants to try the same to get the VMs configured memory from the vCenter.It is very useful for the disk space and other administration … Continue reading →

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Powershell script to audit the VMware vCenter\ESXi \ Windows logs.

Posted on December 11, 2015 by Ganadmin

To troubleshoot the VCenter related issues we usually collect the VMware support logs and if we want to check for any error or specific info , it is very difficult to identify the details  on which appropriate log to check so … Continue reading →

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Reverting to a previous version of ESXi patch,update or upgrade.

Posted on November 20, 2015 by Ganadmin

This is not something new to the most of VMware Admins out there, but still there are a lot of doubts about this and even VMware support engineer was not sure about the steps so I decided to put few … Continue reading →

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VC6.0 Linked Mode roles sync issue between vCenters – ” The data service timed out because a back-end task took more than 120 seconds”

Posted on November 10, 2015 by Ganadmin

vCenters  ( VCSA ) between different sites have been connected using the linked mode so all the PSCs is pointed to the same domain and because of few issues we have to decommission the PSC\VC in one of the site … Continue reading →

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Use windows session authentication greyed out VC6.0 webclient.

Posted on November 6, 2015 by Ganadmin

Once the installation of PSC\VC installation is completed , we started configuring the PSC to our AD and assigned appropriate users to the roles.While trying to login using the AD account , noticed Use windows session authentication  option is greyed … Continue reading →

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