Category Archives: Windows

Adding an RDM LUN to the second node in the MSCS cluster fails with the error: Incompatible device backing specified for the device

Posted on April 30, 2023 by Ganadmin

Followed the document https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.5/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-651-setup-mscs.pdf to configure the windows cluster but it is getting failed with the error Tried a few VMware KB articles to fix the issue https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2054897 but all the options got failed and finally the issue got fixed … Continue reading →

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Amazon FSx for Windows File Server

Posted on March 6, 2020 by srinathvg

  Amazon FSx for Windows File Server provides a fully managed native Microsoft Windows file system. Amazon FSx provides NTFS file systems that can be accessed from up to thousands of compute instances using the SMB protocol (SMB 2.0 to 3.1.1).  … Continue reading →

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Bug in network introspection driver (vnetflt.sys) VMtools 11265 (11.0.1)

Posted on February 13, 2020 by Ganadmin

Recently we have upgraded the VMtools version from 10.305\10.346 to 11265 – 11.0.1 and we noticed few VMs went to hung status and noticed the below alert in windows VMs. vmware.log: 2020-02-07T12:50:58.182Z| vcpu-0| I125: Guest: vsep: AUDIT: VFileSocketMgrCloseSocket : Mux … Continue reading →

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Error while migrating vSphere VMs to Amazon with AWS Server Migration Service

Posted on September 30, 2019 by Ganadmin

By the help of the link , configured the AWS Server Migration Service and at final stage of the sync it got failed with the error ” Instance failed to boot and establish network connectivity” So we stopped all the … Continue reading →

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July MS patch issue and fix

Posted on July 30, 2018 by Ganadmin

We were encountered  few issue after the July month Microsoft patch KB4338814\KB4338815. After applying the patch users have reported about the DHCP issue and SQL fail-over cluster issue.On few servers we were not able to open the DHCP \ MS … Continue reading →

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Trend Deep Security agentless windows 2016 protection

Posted on February 28, 2018 by Ganadmin

Even-though the 9.6 Service pack 1 was supporting the agentless protection which was tested in our lab, it was not officially supported by Trend and from the latest version Deep Security 9.1 Update Release (9.6 ServicePack 1 Patch1 Update 15) … 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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Powercli script to validate the basic vSphere Hardening

Posted on June 18, 2017 by Ganadmin

Last month I was working in a security hardening project and implemented as per the standard recommended by the VMware. We have to show to our internal security team that  all the vsphere environment is protected as per the VMware … Continue reading →

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Useful information and links about Microsoft Remote Procedure Call (RPC)

Posted on January 28, 2017 by Ganadmin

The diagram below shows the RPC workflow starting with the registration of the server application with the RPC Endpoint Mapper (EPM) in step 1 to the passing of data from the RPC client to the client application in step 7. … Continue reading →

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