Tag Archives: vCSA 6.0

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

Posted on March 27, 2016 by Ganadmin

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 Ganadmin

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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Powershell script to find which platform service controller ( PSC ) is pointing to my vCenter appliance VCSA -6.0

Posted on January 24, 2016 by Ganadmin

We have two PSCs  which points to multiple VCs running in our environment and always   there will be a question that which PSC is pointing to which VC and there is easy way to find it using the web-client … Continue reading →

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VMware vCenter Server Appliance 6.0 Update 1b installation issue – stuck at 70%

Posted on January 8, 2016 by Ganadmin

When we are installing the vCenter update using the web-client ( https://VCFQDN:5480 ) it got stuck at 70%. We waited around 10 – 15 mins but nothing happened and finally rebooted the VC appliance and once it came up found … Continue reading →

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VC6.0 Linked Mode roles sync issue between vCenters – ” The data service timed out because a back-end task took more than 120 seconds”

Posted on November 10, 2015 by Ganadmin

vCenters  ( VCSA ) between different sites have been connected using the linked mode so all the PSCs is pointed to the same domain and because of few issues we have to decommission the PSC\VC in one of the site … Continue reading →

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Use windows session authentication greyed out VC6.0 webclient.

Posted on November 6, 2015 by Ganadmin

Once the installation of PSC\VC installation is completed , we started configuring the PSC to our AD and assigned appropriate users to the roles.While trying to login using the AD account , noticed Use windows session authentication  option is greyed … Continue reading →

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Repointing the VMware vCenter Server 6.0 to the external PSC.

Posted on October 22, 2015 by Ganadmin

I was trying to repoint the vCenter ( vCSA 6.1 U1 ) using  vmafd-cli from the PSC01 ( External PSC ) to another PSC02 ( External PSC ) which is configured as the replication partner to the PSC01  and our setup … Continue reading →

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How to configure the NTP on the vCenter Server Appliance 6.0 – vCSA

Posted on October 9, 2015 by Ganadmin

We have various methods to configure and verify the NTP settings in PSC\VC and during the installation itself we have to point the correct NTP setup and if we want to change or update the configuration then pls follow the … Continue reading →

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vCSA 6.0 Installation issues – ” Firstboot script execution error “

Posted on October 3, 2015 by Ganadmin

Pls check my previous blogs on various issues faced during the installation and here I just added few other issues which we faced in our new environment. I hope these somehow shed some lights to fix the installation issues. vCSA 6.0 … Continue reading →

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Issues and Errors when decommissioning the vCenter Server or a Platform Services Controller -vCSA -6.0

Posted on October 2, 2015 by Ganadmin

Platform Service Controller ( PSC ) \ vCenter which connects to the external PSC and if it no longer required or not working then we can decommission or delete the appliance. First step is to stop and power-down the PSC … Continue reading →

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