Category Archives: Vcenter Appliance

6.5u1 SMB1 issue with causes the AD authentication issue.

Posted on January 29, 2019 by Ganadmin

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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VCSA 6.5 upgrade\Installation issues and fixes

Posted on November 30, 2017 by Ganadmin

Recently I have started upgrading the VC6.0 U3 ( VCSA ) to 6.5 U1 and encountered few issues  so  same like by previous blogs on VC6.0  issues , planned to do it for VC6.5 also and  find the old blogs … 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 →

Posted in Certificate, ESX command, Replacing vCenter 6.0 SSL Certificate, Vcenter Appliance, vCSA 6.0, VCSA6.5, VMware, vSphere 6.0 Template. | Tagged , , , | 1 Comment

Mind-Map for dvSwitch.

Posted on August 31, 2017 by Ganadmin

My flight got delayed after the VMworld and have to spend few hours in the airport so just to make something interesting made this Mind-map for dvSwitch . Hope it will be helpful for the certificate preparation. Download

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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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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 →

Posted in Install and Configure VMware vCSA 6.0, Platform Services Controller (PSC ), VC6.0 Appliance Installation Issue, Vcenter Appliance, vCSA 6.0, VMware | Tagged , , , , , | 1 Comment

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 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 →

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Repointing the VMware vCenter Server 6.0 to the external PSC.

Posted on October 22, 2015 by Ganadmin

I was trying to repoint the vCenter ( vCSA 6.1 U1 ) using  vmafd-cli from the PSC01 ( External PSC ) to another PSC02 ( External PSC ) which is configured as the replication partner to the PSC01  and our setup … Continue reading →

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