Category Archives: Platform Services Controller (PSC )

VCSA6.5 failed to login using AD credentials

Posted on November 30, 2019 by Ganadmin

One of our vCenter was having issue to login using the AD Credentials . We verified the DNS and the other VC ‘s which connects to the same DNS and AD , found no issues. When we checked the websso.log … Continue reading →

Posted in Joining PSC with AD, Platform Services Controller (PSC ), Vcenter Appliance, vCSA 6.0, VCSA6.5, VMware | Tagged ESXi AD Authentication issue, joining PSC with AD, Vcenter Appliance AD authentication | Leave a comment

Bug in VCSA 6.5 U1\U2 which failed with invalid credentials on AD authentication

Posted on February 28, 2019 by Ganadmin

On of our vCenter was having issue on connecting the AD users and when users trying to connect the VC , it will fail with the invalid credentials error. I have already mentioned few blogs about AD authentication issue here … Continue reading →

Posted in Joining PSC with AD, Platform Services Controller (PSC ), SSO, Vcenter Appliance, VCSA6.5, VMware | Tagged ESXi AD Authentication issue, joining PSC with AD, VCSA 6.5, vCSA DNS Issue, vCSA Issues | Leave a comment

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 Install and Configure vCSA 6.0, Platform Services Controller ( PSC ), VCSA, vCSA 6.0, vCSA Issues, vdcrepadmin | 1 Comment

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 →

Posted in F5 Load Balancer for PSC HA, High-Availability, Platform Services Controller (PSC ), Powershell, vCSA 6.0, VMware | Tagged PowerCLI, Powershell, VCSA, vCSA 6.0, VCSA CLI | Leave a comment

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 PowerCLI, Powershell, VCSA, vCSA 6.0 | 1 Comment

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 →

Posted in Platform Services Controller (PSC ), Vcenter Appliance, vCSA 6.0, VMware | Tagged Platform Services Controller ( PSC ), Reconfiguring and Repointing vc6.0, Repointing the VC6.0 to external PSC, Repointing the VMware vCenter Server 6.0, vCSA 6.0 | Leave a comment

Joining a Platform Service Controller to the AD Domain (vCSA 6.0)

Posted on September 4, 2015 by Ganadmin

Pls check my previous blog on PSC , F5 PSC LB and vCSA installation and configuration.In this blog we can see the PSC AD configuration. In vCSA 6.0 the way we connect the AD is changed when compare to the … Continue reading →

Posted in Platform Services Controller (PSC ), vCSA 6.0, VMware | Tagged Install and Configure vCSA 6.0, joining PSC with AD, Platform Services Controller ( PSC ), Platform Services Controller issue with AD, Platform Services Controller with AD, vCSA 6.0 | 2 Comments

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 →

Posted in Certificate, High-Availability, Platform Services Controller (PSC ), Vcenter Appliance, vCSA 6.0, VMware | Tagged F5 Load Balancer for PSC HA, Platform Services Controller ( PSC ), PSC F5 LB, vCSA 6.0, vCSA 6.0 High-Availability | 1 Comment

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 →

Posted in Platform Services Controller (PSC ), Vcenter Appliance, vCSA 6.0, VMware | Tagged Platform Services Controller ( PSC ), VC authentication, vCSA 6.0 | Leave a comment

Deploying Platform Services Controller ( PSC ) in HA mode behind a Load Balancer.

Posted on April 20, 2015 by Ganadmin

In this blog we can see the configuration of High Availability External Platform Services Controller ( PSC ) Appliance .A fresh, or new, vCenter Single Sign-On high availability deployment is recommended when there are multiple vCenter Server systems or vCenter … Continue reading →

Posted in Certificate, High-Availability, Platform Services Controller (PSC ), SSO, vCSA 6.0, VMware | Tagged Platform Services Controller ( PSC ), SSO LB, vCSA 6.0, vCSA 6.0 High-Availability | 2 Comments