Tag Archives: vCSA 6.0

VCSA Shell is disabled.

Posted on June 30, 2019 by

One of our VC is down because of the space issue and not able to login to the Shell. Followed the below steps to fix the same. Accessed the VCSA on Grub mode Found “/” and /storage/log partitions were full. … Continue reading →

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Inactive VMs in SRM recovery.

Posted on September 30, 2018 by

We were testing the SRM recovery and noticed few VMs are skipped during the testing without any error and when we generated the logs ,skipped  VMs were showing as inactive. After few investigation we have noticed that the Guest OS … Continue reading →

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VMware support log size issue and workaround (VCSA ).

Posted on July 9, 2017 by

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

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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vdcrepadmin to find the replication status and design the Platform Services Controller 6.0

Posted on October 31, 2016 by

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 →

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Various options to enable the Telnet client and other methods to check the port.

Posted on June 19, 2016 by

In recent version of windows, Telnet Client is not enabled by default and in this blog we can see various method to install the client and to check the port connectivity. Option 1 : we can install it from the … Continue reading →

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vSphere Replication sso fails with error Bad exit code:1

Posted on April 23, 2016 by

After upgrading the VCSA to the latest U2 and also with new machine certificate , noticed vSphere Replication was in failed status and when I tried to configure the lookup service address and restarting the service it was failing with … Continue reading →

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Lookup service fails with the certificate error for external VMware solution like NSX Manager,VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager, VMware vSphere Replication or vSheild Manager.

Posted on April 2, 2016 by

Some solutions, such as VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager, VMware vSphere Replication, or vSheild Manager are always installed on a different machine than the associated vCenter Server system or Platform Services Controller that manages the certificates for the solution. If you … Continue reading →

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Issue while moving ESX host from old VC5.1 to the new VCSA 6.0

Posted on March 27, 2016 by

We were doing the ESX Host (5.1 )  migration from the old windows VC5.1 to the new VC6.0 appliance , few hosts were having issue while adding it to the new VC and it got failed with the  Time-out Error … Continue reading →

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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

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 →

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