Tag Archives: vCSA Issues

Root cause for the VPXD Crash issue

Posted on July 31, 2021 by Ganadmin

Previous post I have explained about the vCenter and VPXD crash issue , after lot of research VMware support confirmed that the issue is because of the  Likewise failure that is fixed and pushed in 6.7 U3M, since VMware patches … Continue reading →

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VC6.7 U3 VPXD crash issue.

Posted on June 30, 2021 by Ganadmin

Every week we had VC down issue and when we login using the SSH , noticed the VPXD service was stopped and when tried to stop it was getting failed. Using the vMon log , noticed it was showing the … Continue reading →

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Tips to check VCSA sessions.

Posted on May 31, 2021 by Ganadmin

Below grep NumSessions shows the currently active sessions on the vpxd profiler. The longer query showing HttpSessionObject is checking for all HTTP sessions that were created over a certain period of time. The HttpSessionObject notes a unique session at a … Continue reading →

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Bug noticed on VCSA 14367737 Syslog configuration.

Posted on February 28, 2021 by Ganadmin

We are running the VCSA 14367737 and it can’t be upgraded because we have the internal cloud stack on top of the vCenter and it supports only the VCSA version 14367737. I have tried forwarding the VCSA logs to the … Continue reading →

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VCSA Shell is disabled.

Posted on June 30, 2019 by Ganadmin

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 Ganadmin

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 Ganadmin

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 Ganadmin

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 Ganadmin

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 Ganadmin

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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