Tag Archives: vCSA Issues

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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Bug in VCSA 6.5 U1\U2 which failed with invalid credentials on AD authentication

Posted on February 28, 2019 by

On of our vCenter was having issue on connecting the AD users and when users trying to connect the VC , it will fail with the invalid credentials error. I have already mentioned few blogs about AD authentication  issue here … Continue reading →

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6.5u1 SMB1 issue with causes the AD authentication issue.

Posted on January 29, 2019 by

We had the AD authentication issue from the ESXi 6.5 U1 and tried various method mentioned in my previous blog but it got failed with all the options. Below is the error while trying to connect the host from the domainjoin-cl … Continue reading →

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VCSA 6.5 upgrade\Installation issues and fixes

Posted on November 30, 2017 by

Recently I have started upgrading the VC6.0 U3 ( VCSA ) to 6.5 U1 and encountered few issues  so  same like by previous blogs on VC6.0  issues , planned to do it for VC6.5 also and  find the old blogs … 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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Supermicro bug on running VMs in Nested method.

Posted on April 29, 2017 by

One of our internal cloud environment which is running ESXi hosts under SuperMicro ( SYS-1027GR ) got failed with the PSOD referencing Fatal (unrecoverable) MCE on one of physical CPU .It happened almost all the ESX hosts on the cluster frequently … Continue reading →

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vSphere client and Powercli fails to connect vCenter after TLSv1.0 disabled.

Posted on March 20, 2017 by

As per the KB 2148819 , TLSv1.0 has been disabled from the VC and issue started to connect the VC from the desktop client and also using the powercli . Error from the Desktop client: Error from the Powercli Using the … 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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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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