Category Archives: VCSA6.7

NFSv3 datastore is much faster than NFSv4

Posted on August 26, 2022 by Ganadmin

Recently we have noticed in a few datastore the search operation is taking more time than expected and in our testing, it was identified that compare to NFSv4, NFSv3 results are better. Our testing is to first list files from … Continue reading →

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Root cause for the VPXD Crash issue

Posted on July 31, 2021 by Ganadmin

Previous post I have explained about the vCenter and VPXD crash issue , after lot of research VMware support confirmed that the issue is because of the  Likewise failure that is fixed and pushed in 6.7 U3M, since VMware patches … Continue reading →

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VC6.7 U3 VPXD crash issue.

Posted on June 30, 2021 by Ganadmin

Every week we had VC down issue and when we login using the SSH , noticed the VPXD service was stopped and when tried to stop it was getting failed. Using the vMon log , noticed it was showing the … Continue reading →

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Tips to check VCSA sessions.

Posted on May 31, 2021 by Ganadmin

Below grep NumSessions shows the currently active sessions on the vpxd profiler. The longer query showing HttpSessionObject is checking for all HTTP sessions that were created over a certain period of time. The HttpSessionObject notes a unique session at a … Continue reading →

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Tip to check the ESXi\vCenter errors using the Splunk.

Posted on March 31, 2021 by Ganadmin

Recently we had “All path down issue” in one of our host and I was looking to find how many events and how long this issue was there in host and identified the below steps in the Splunk in which … Continue reading →

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Bug noticed on VCSA 14367737 Syslog configuration.

Posted on February 28, 2021 by Ganadmin

We are running the VCSA 14367737 and it can’t be upgraded because we have the internal cloud stack on top of the vCenter and it supports only the VCSA version 14367737. I have tried forwarding the VCSA logs to the … Continue reading →

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Steps to blacklist the problematic DCs in VMware VCSA 6.7U3

Posted on September 21, 2020 by Ganadmin

We had a DNS issue in one of the DC running active directory integrated  DNS service and it caused our vCenter to fail to connect the domain in AD so we have changed the  DNS to the IPs which is … Continue reading →

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vCenter VPXD crashes because of high memory.

Posted on July 31, 2020 by Ganadmin

We have a vcenter environment with around  500 ESXi hosts running on multiple clusters and for the past several weeks we had the issue of Vcetner down because of VPXD crash and the service will be in stopped status. VMware … Continue reading →

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