Category Archives: vCSA 6.0

VMware KB articles with no resolution for few known Issues in Vsphere 6.0 and workaround to fix.

Posted on May 30, 2016 by Ganadmin

Check my other blog for the VC6.0 installation issues and here in this blog , I want to highlight VMware KB articles mentioned as no resolution for certain known issues but with some workaround to fix and also few issues … Continue reading →

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vSphere Replication sso fails with error Bad exit code:1

Posted on April 23, 2016 by Ganadmin

After upgrading the VCSA to the latest U2 and also with new machine certificate , noticed vSphere Replication was in failed status and when I tried to configure the lookup service address and restarting the service it was failing with … Continue reading →

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Lookup service fails with the certificate error for external VMware solution like NSX Manager,VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager, VMware vSphere Replication or vSheild Manager.

Posted on April 2, 2016 by Ganadmin

Some solutions, such as VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager, VMware vSphere Replication, or vSheild Manager are always installed on a different machine than the associated vCenter Server system or Platform Services Controller that manages the certificates for the solution. If you … Continue reading →

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Issue while moving ESX host from old VC5.1 to the new VCSA 6.0

Posted on March 27, 2016 by Ganadmin

We were doing the ESX Host (5.1 )  migration from the old windows VC5.1 to the new VC6.0 appliance , few hosts were having issue while adding it to the new VC and it got failed with the  Time-out Error … Continue reading →

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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 →

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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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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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