Category Archives: Vcenter Appliance

Install and Configure VMware vCSA 6.0 with External Platform Service Controller ( PSC )

Posted on September 4, 2015 by Ganadmin

Pls check my previous blog about Installing the PSC and Configuring the F5 Load Balancer and in this blog we can see the installation of the vCSA and configuring it with the External PSC. Before Starting the Installation it is … Continue reading →

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F5 Load Balancer Configuration for the HA Platform Services Controller ( PSC )

Posted on September 2, 2015 by Ganadmin

Pls check my previous blog on configuring the PSC  in HA and here we can see the F5 configuration for the load balancer. Node 1: PSCSSO1.domain.local\10.10.10.1 Node2:PSCSSO2.domain.local\10.10.10.2 LB: PSCSSO.domain.local\10.10.10.3 We need to download the lb.p12 file from the ha Folder … Continue reading →

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Invalid Credentials: Issue with connecting VC6 to an external VMware PSC High Availability deployment.

Posted on August 31, 2015 by Ganadmin

After finishing the load balancer F5 configuration for the external PSC , I tried to install the VCenter Appliance to connect the external PSC. When I provided the external PSC credentials to the LB FQDN\IP it was throwing the error … Continue reading →

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NSX Manager 6.1.4 Installation OVA – Part -1

Posted on May 15, 2015 by Ganadmin

It is preferred to install the OVF\OVA using the webclient but in this blog we can see the OVA deployment using the vClient . Download the latest version and navigate to the location to select the OVA.. Next it will … Continue reading →

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VMware Web-Client issue in chrome browser

Posted on May 1, 2015 by Ganadmin

Web-Client VM console getting failed, when I try to open it using the Chrome browser ( VCenter Appliance 5.5 build 2442330 ) . It says page can’t be found. At the same time it was working fine in Firefox. As per the … Continue reading →

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How to SCP files to VMware vCenter Appliance 6.0 ( vCSA)

Posted on March 30, 2015 by Ganadmin

When I was trying to copy the files using winscp or SCP from the other linux system to the vCSA , ended up with the below error. Unknown command : ‘scp’ This is because we need to change the shell … Continue reading →

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VMware vCenter Server Appliance 6.0 – “Failed to Start Services. Firstboot Error”.

Posted on March 27, 2015 by Ganadmin

I was trying to install the vCSA 6.0,  it was failing with the below error “Failed to Start Services. Firstboot Error”. After sometime spent on the troubleshooting and few re-installation ,I realize the tab for the networking – Choose the … Continue reading →

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Update Manager with multiple vCenter Server instances.

Posted on November 4, 2014 by Ganadmin

By default VUM ( VMware vSphere Update Manager )  supports only one VC instance and  it can’t support multiple VCs simultaneously but having the VUM utility we can re-configure the second VC separately to use the same update manager . This method … Continue reading →

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Configuring Identity Source in SSO with secured LDAPS

Posted on October 10, 2014 by Ganadmin

To configure the LDAPS , need to import the certificate from the certificate root server . Pls note other than the root certificate it won’t accept other certificate . Log in to a Domain Controller on the domain. Click Start, type mmc, … Continue reading →

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Vcenter Appliance configuration using SSH

Posted on October 8, 2014 by Ganadmin

    Login to the console session of the VCSA Execute the following command: /opt/vmware/share/vami/vami_config_net Menu will appear to change the IP address, hostname, DNS, Default gateway and proxy server. Execute the below command to ADD the VCSA to the … Continue reading →

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