Category Archives: VCSA6.5

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 →

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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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Bug in some vSAN code that Logic Monitoring is polling

Posted on June 30, 2018 by Ganadmin

As per the below link  if we are using the Logic Monitoring for VSphere environment, It looks like due to a change in the server-side API behavior of VMware 6.5, could trigger host instability, or possibly a crash of an ESXi 6.5 host. https://communities.logicmonitor.com/topic/1945-fyi-lm-can-trigger-esxi-65-hostd-to-crash/?tab=comments#comment-4839 … Continue reading →

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Useful links about Meltdown and Spectre

Posted on January 9, 2018 by Ganadmin

Everyone is  working on to fix the Meltdown and Spectre so just thought of sharing few links which will help to handle the issue efficiently . HP Today HP has released update for System ROM and we can find below link to … 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

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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Primary\Secondary DNS IP Fail-Over bug in VMware vCenter Server Appliance 6.0 Update 2 ( VCSA U2)

Posted on February 20, 2017 by Ganadmin

We have the PRD setup with external PSC and VC which is configured with the Primary DNS and Secondary DNS . Due to the hardware issue on our primary DNS server , it went down and we couldn’t connect the … 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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