Category Archives: Windows

Powershell script to audit the VMware vCenter\ESXi \ Windows logs.

Posted on December 11, 2015 by Ganadmin

To troubleshoot the VCenter related issues we usually collect the VMware support logs and if we want to check for any error or specific info , it is very difficult to identify the details  on which appropriate log to check so … Continue reading →

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Creating a new Template for vSphere 6.0 to use for Machine SSL and Solution User certificate.

Posted on September 18, 2015 by Ganadmin

Pls check my previous blogs about the PSC , F5 PSC LB, vCSA installation and PSC AD configuration. Login to the windows CA issuing server and type certtmpl.msc which starts up the Certificate Templates Console. Go to the Templates folder , right … Continue reading →

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Upgrade the Certificate Authority to SHA256

Posted on July 14, 2015 by Ganadmin

VMware recommends the certificate authorities to generate certificate using SHA256 and also in SSO LB document they mentioned not to use SHA 1 signature algorithm for SSL certificate. Pls find the below steps to upgrade the CA to SHA256. Before … Continue reading →

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How to find which VMDK is associated with which disk in Windows Server.

Posted on June 19, 2015 by Ganadmin

1. Login to the client and edit the VM . 2. Select the Hardisk and note the SCSI ( 0:X ) 3. Login to the windows Guest VM – Go to the Disk-Management. 4. Right click the Disk and Go … Continue reading →

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Deploying a Centralized VMware vCenter Single Sign-On 5.5 with Microsoft Network Load Balancer.

Posted on April 1, 2015 by Ganadmin

This blog is about configuring the vCenter SSO LB using the Microsoft Load-Balancing Manager , I have noticed that lot of blog and KB mentioning about the configuration of the LB using F5 , Citrix NetScalar and VMware Edge but … Continue reading →

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Process Explorer

Posted on January 5, 2015 by Ganadmin

Performance issues in Microsoft Windows system can be fixed by finding the running process at given time and also it will help to understand how our CPU and other resources are being used . Process Explorer is the most popular … Continue reading →

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CHKDSK on Windows 2012 Servers.

Posted on November 24, 2014 by Ganadmin

Long back we had a very tough time on solving the Windows 2003 system volume corruption issue and the main challenge is we cannot predict the time consuming to complete the chkdisk. One of our main Tier-1 Application was running … Continue reading →

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SQL server Failover Cluster Instance.

Posted on November 4, 2014 by Ganadmin

“ The cluster resource ‘SQL Server (SQL2012)’ could not be brought online due to an error bringing the dependency resource ‘SQL Network Name(VSQL2012)’ online “  During the SQL 2012 Failover cluster installation,  faced the issue on bringing the SQL cluster … Continue reading →

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Removing the VNIC completely from the Windows VM.

Posted on October 12, 2014 by Ganadmin

We removed the VNIC E1000 and added a new NIC with VMXNET3 on one of the windows 2008 VM , noticed that windows doesn’t delete the hardware and it just moved as a hidden device. After spending some time , … Continue reading →

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