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Hi all! Time for some VMware stuff now! I was planing to do patchning this weekend, and I always try on test servers first. But this time it failed. I want to get out the word how I fixed that issue. If you will do this you will loose the baseline that you created. Versions... Continue Reading →
I my post before I explained how to fix a corrupt VCLs. When I did this in the lab I misspelled the setting. When I pasted the cluster number in the advanced setting I copy and paste the hole url for some stupid reason. When you do that it is not possible to add the... Continue Reading →
I ran into som very strange problem on an SQL server this fall that I need to tell you about. The Error A read of the file 'D:\SQL PATH\Data.mdf' at offset 0x0000001ad60000 succeeded after failing 1 time(s) with error: incorrect pageid (expected 1:214336; actual 14854:3166640). Even if we see these error SQL was able to... Continue Reading →
Hi! I upgraded some vmware cluster and stumble up on VCLS machine on high cpu usages. That is strange, because these are small machines and should not take any cpu normally. And you can not do anything about it. You can shut the machine down, but it will start up again. In my case the... Continue Reading →
The goal of this action was to upgrade a cluster with nvidia graphics card from 6.7 to 7.0.3. Before the upgrade everything worked fine. You where able to live vmotion vm:s with vgpu to another host. Problem: Everything worked from vm side, but was not able to vmotion live vm:s between hosts. Steps: Upgrade esxi... Continue Reading →
How do you keep you updated on what is happening out there, I have some tools and workflow that will keep you busy. One thing you need to think about, not everything on the internet is the truth.The hard thing here is that there is endless information out there, but yo do not need to... Continue Reading →
If you are interested in any just send me an email if you want information about them. This is mostly a reference page to other bloggposts. BHIS Webcast: Things NOT to Do in Pentest Reports: Tips, Tricks 2023-02-03 Future Red Team Rants: A breakdown in three parts 2023-01-26 All About Ansible - A Suite of... Continue Reading →
After firmware upgrade of DELL server we got issue regarding SD Card mirror. Here is how we sloved this. DELL Support is informed and they are working on it. Fix would be in the next release I was told. But first Do not use SD card to boot serverEsxi will drop the support laterThere are... Continue Reading →
Hi! Not everyone are using distributed switches in there vmware enviroment or the licence for host profiles. Some uses ordinary vswitches, like me. And every time I do a reinstall or add new hosts I have alot of vlans to add. You can do it from GUI, but it takes time. You can use api:s,... Continue Reading →
Hi all! The latest posts has been about how to get the most of our hardware in a virtual machines. But sometimes you need to revert stuff you do. Or as me, try everything that can go wrong. When I revert from paravirtulized driver on my Windows 10 vm to NVMe controller everything went fine.... Continue Reading →
Last post I was looking at vCPU configuration on a vm to get best performance on a vm. Now it is time to take a look at performance on the disk side. To test performance I used CrystalDiskMark. Finally I was able to add a file in WordPress, the link to the file is at... Continue Reading →
We start with what our goals are We have a vm that want to take as much cpu power as possible from the host. But how shall we configure the VM to make the most of it. You have read about numa nodes and what that means? right? If not look, at the bottom of... Continue Reading →
If you attending John strand in this epic course and want to run the lab vm in Vmware ESXi please read this. If not, go and do something with your girlfriend,boyfriend or children or take a beer and relax! Hi, I am looking at a new way to work so I was not able to... Continue Reading →
Hi all! If you are like me attending the Threat Hunting Training Course named Cyber Threat Hunting Level 1 w/ Chris Brenton | 4-Hours on Thursday and want to run the virtual machine in qemu/kvm native do it like this. Download and read the below link! https://www.activecountermeasures.com/cyber-threat-hunting-training-course/ As always start with the short version! Convert... Continue Reading →
Goal for today is to connect to work machine, in this case a Windows 10 and have all the functions that I have when I am physical at work. So I had some requirements on my list. Client at home can be anything (Linux in my case)Must support camera and microphoneFastNo lagSimple to useSecure First... Continue Reading →
Hi again! Today we are gonna take a look at Salt from Saltstack. On Sunday I was walking the dog and was listening to the podcast thehacks. I got very inspired by the podcast and wanted to really try this. I have never seen this product before. I have done some other tests in my... Continue Reading →
Finally (can I say that?) it is edge time on Linux. Really straight forward to get Edge on you Ubuntu 20.04. But I will put this out anyway! This is a dev version so there will be functions that will not work yet. Download package from Microsoft: https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/edge/pool/main/m/microsoft-edge-dev/ Install from cli sudo apt-get install ./microsoft-edge-dev_88.0.673.0-1_amd64.deb... Continue Reading →
We had a failure on a core switch and following we got strange issue with our ESXi host that were running HP / Intel nic cards with driver ixgben. The state of the nic was Admin Down on ESXi side. On the switch it was up. FYI we were running IP Hash on the vswitch.... Continue Reading →
Uninstall PowerCLI from VMware (we add it later from PSGallery) Start Powershell Set tls security to 1.2 [Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Tls12 Set http proxy [Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable("HTTP_PROXY", "proxy.invid.se:3128", [EnvironmentVariableTarget]::Machine) Set https proxy [Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable("HTTPS_PROXY", "proxy.invid.se:3128", [EnvironmentVariableTarget]::Machine) Now that we have internet connection you can try in powershell, just for confirmation. wget https://invid.se Now it is time to register PSgallery... Continue Reading →
This simple powershell scripts copy vlans from one server to another. With this script I needed to manually create the vmotion network after. But all other vlans was ccreated. Start Powershell In this case I was running linux. pwsh Set-PowerCLIConfiguration -InvalidCertificateAction Ignore -Confirm:$false Connect-VIServer cmdlet Connect-VIServer at command pipeline position 1 Supply values for the... Continue Reading →
I did get this on 2 different upgrade I did I tried two methods both worked for me. Reboot VirtualCenter server and do the upgrade again Or ssh into the VirtualCenter box and type: rm /var/run/vmware/applmgmt/update_microservice.pid Upgrade again!
I was troubleshooting a ESXi host with esxtop, but the terminal was screwed up. The thing to set is this: TERM=xterm Then run esxtop again and it all locked nice.
Integrated Windows Authentication (IWA) has also been tested by VMware Engineering and verified to be compatible with these changes. IWA uses different protocols and mechanisms to interact with Active Directory and is not affected by changes to the Active Directory LDAP servers. Where did I find this information: Microsoft https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/ADV190023 Vmware https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2020/01/microsoft-ldap-vsphere-channel-binding-signing-adv190023.html https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2149697
How to completely remove and start from scratch regardning Nimble Plugin in Vcenter. W had the plugin that was in running mode 1 - Unregister the array from VC in Nimble 2- Clean the VC cache SSH to vcenter server shell service-control --stop vsphere-client service-control --stop vsphere-ui cd /etc/vmware/vsphere-client/vc-packages/vsphere-client-serenity rm -rf com.nimblestorage.* cd /etc/vmware/vsphere-ui/vc-packages/vsphere-client-serenity rm... Continue Reading →
Thanx to Dave Parker http://computersalad.blogspot.com/2018/09/using-vmware-remote-console-on-debian.html sudo su cd /usr/lib/vmware/bin mv vmrc vmrc.old Create a new vmrc file in /usr/lib/vmware/bin with this content #!/bin/bash LIBDIR="/usr/lib/vmware/lib" BINDIR="/usr/lib/vmware/bin" LD_LIBRARY_PATH="" for dir in $(find ${LIBDIR} -type d) ; do LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${dir}:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}" done export LD_LIBRARY_PATH ln -s ${BINDIR}/appLoader /tmp/vmrc /tmp/vmrc $* rm -f /tmp/vmrc exit 0
Special thanks to my better looking colleague @ http://blogg.schillman.se/ He is a powershell guru! I did this on Linux so I do not have the power to store username and password. But I know that you can do this if you are running Windows! If the vmware modules are not installed: Start powershell Set-PowerCLIConfiguration -InvalidCertificateAction:Ignore... Continue Reading →
(We are using old version of VCenter Server 6.5 Update 1e), Yes, we are about to upgrade! When you clone a machine in HTML5 it failes to powered on the cloned machine, this works when you are using Flash client. In HTML5 the cloned machine still points to the original vmdk files. In Flash it... Continue Reading →
Thanks to Author: Tim Carman Twitter: @tpcarman Github: tpcarman https://www.timcarman.net/2017/10/27/add-remove-virtual-machines-based-datastore-location-powercli/ Functions: Add-DrsVMtoDrsVMGroup Remove-DrsVMFromDrsVMGroup install Powershell Get PowerShell to work with ubuntu 19.10 Budgie Create Powershell Profile Run it! sudo snap install powershell --classic export DOTNET_SYSTEM_GLOBALIZATION_INVARIANT=1 vi /home/USERNAME/config/powershell/Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1 Paste the following in the file: $Hour = (Get-Date).Hour If ($Hour -lt 12) {"Morning Master"} ElseIf ($Hour -gt... Continue Reading →
If you want to monitor your enviroment using snmp you can. I will recommend going to SNMPv3 not v2 like this....but I just wanted to try esxi: esxcli system snmp set --communities secret esxcli system snmp set --port 161 esxcli system snmp set --syslocation SERVERROOM esxcli system snmp set --enable true Virtual appliance: snmp.set --port... Continue Reading →
Start PowerShell as Administrator Install-Module -Name VMware.PowerCLI -Scope CurrentUser Install-Module ImportExcel -scope CurrentUser Install-Module vDocumentation -Scope CurrentUser Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted Set-PowerCLIConfiguration -InvalidCertificateAction Ignore -Confirm:$false Connect-VIServer Then you are up and runnig Great work from Ariel Sanchez Mora https://github.com/arielsanchezmora/vDocumentation Get-Module vDocumentation -ListAvailable | Format-List Get-ESXInventory Document host hardware inventory and host configuration Get-ESXIODevice Document information from HBAs,... Continue Reading →
You get an error when editing advanced option on ESXi host (syslog) But when you do this from CLI it work and the option is ok in the GUI also. esxcli system syslog config set --logdir=/vmfs/volumes/DATASTORE01/esx01/
Started the upgrade 08:10 and the upgrade was finished 9:37. I have only about 10 host in OME. I takes long time just wait. Do not forget to delete the snapshot after the upgrade is finnished. The CPU was like this during the time. The screen that was there for a long time was this:... Continue Reading →
1 physical server to virtual with VMware Converter 6.2 failed after 3% with error. FAILED: An error occurred during the conversion: 'BlockLevelVolumeCloneMgr::CloneVolume: Detected a write error during the cloning of volume \WindowsBitmapDriverVolumeId=[60-2A-FF-68-00-00-10-00-00-00-00-00]. Error: 37409 (type: 1, code: 2338)' Source machine had Teaming configured and I just pulled out the cabels and put new one in... Continue Reading →
1 physical server with AD,DNS,DHCP and file services. I want to convert the physical server to a virtual machine with Vmware Converter 6.2 Went to 1% and then failed with error: vmware converter FAILED: A file I/O error occurred while accessing ''. The only thing I did was add below entry in the host file,... Continue Reading →
After I upgraded a host to 6.7U2 from 6.5 I got som strange performance chart, Realtime, 1 day for latency view.Looked like this: The answer it will be fixed in U3, at the moment I do not have the information when this will be released! 2019-06-20T11:04:00.034Z info hostd[2099465] [Originator@6876 sub=Libs opID=53a6b81e] NetstackInstanceImpl: congestion control algorithm:... Continue Reading →
You need ip connectivity from the temp VC to the ESXi host that the upgraded VC is hosted. We want to upgrade VC-CUST (192.168.1.1), in this case migrate to 6.7 from 6.5. This CirtualCenter resides in hosted VirtualCenter VC-Provider. VC-Provider has NO ip connectivity to customer. VC-CUST has no IP connectivity to ESXI host (172.16.1.2)... Continue Reading →
Please follow this great guide from Cody! https://www.codyhosterman.com/2018/10/configuring-pure1-vm-analytics-detailed-guide/ When you come to the point when you shall install or update something stop! Now it is time for proxy stuff. Apt proxy settings sudo vi /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/proxy.conf Acquire { HTTP::proxy "http://proxy.invid.se:8080"; HTTPS::proxy "http://proxy.invid.se:8080"; } Linux For other Linux stuff you want to add this in root users... Continue Reading →
Getting some error when try to run ./vmware-install.pl vcli Path::Class 0.33 or newer Socket6 0.28 or newer IO::Socket::INET6 2.72 or newer Net::INET6Glue 0.603 or newer How I did: sudo apt install -y perl-doc libmodule-build-perl libssl-dev libxml-libxml-perl libsoap-lite-perl libuuid-perl sudo apt-get install libcrypt-ssleay-perl libcrypt-openssl-rsa-perl sudo cpan Devel::StackTrace Class::Data::Inheritable Convert::ASN1 Crypt::OpenSSL::RSA Crypt::X509 Exception::Class UUID::Random Archive::Zip Path::Class Try::Tiny... Continue Reading →
To fix this Browse to VirtualCenter Down at the right bottom on page press Download trusted root CA Unpack the zip file Open Certmgr.msc Go to Trusted Root Certification Authorities Rightclick on Certificates and All Taska/ Import Import the certificates that you unzipped before Restart Browser Done!
Unable to reset sensors, unable to delete log from Vsphere Client/Web You get these messages: System Management Software 1 SEL Fullness Status of other hardware objects Solution for me was: This is NO downtime, but it will disconnect from VirtualCenter for a short period of time. But it will reconnect. ssh to esxi host localcli... Continue Reading →
When you have upgraded to 6.5 and did not notice that you had a 5.0.0. server in the Virtual Center. You can upgrade the 5.0.0 host from CLI with some simple commands. Download the offline Bundle for 5.5 zip file Download the zip file to ESXi host with your tool. (Vsphere client, Winscp or scp)... Continue Reading →
Unable to send alarms from Virtual Center, or you get strange smtp errors on smtp server. Connect to the Virtual Center with ssh cd /etc/mail edit vi submit.cf Find this: Smart relay host (may be null) DS Change the DS to: DS smtp.server.fullname.se (FQDN) Restart the Appliance Works!
Will add more as I stumble upon them. Network Virtualization for Dummies https://secure.vmware.com/47785_REG?touch=1&src=so_5bbb4d89277ef&cid=70134000001CYBq&src=so_5a314d05e49f5&cid=70134000001SkJn Micro‐segmentation For Dummies https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/products/vmware-micro-segmentation-for-dummies-book.pdf NVMe over Fibre Channel For Dummies Brocade Special Edition http://media.wiley.com/assets/7359/40/9781119399711.pdf Firewalls for Dummies https://doc.lagout.org/Others/Firewalls%20For%20Dummies%2C%202nd%20Edition.pdf Next Generation Firewall for Dummies https://www.csuc.cat/sites/default/files/docs/ngfw_for_dummies_ebook.pdf Cybersecurity for Dummies https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/content/dam/pan/en_US/assets/pdf/education/cybersecurity-for-dummies.pdf Network Security in Virtualized Data Centers for Dummies http://gauss.ececs.uc.edu/Courses/c5155/pdf/netsec_virtdatacntr.pdf Virtualization for Dummies https://ssl.www8.hp.com/de/de/pdf/virtuallisation_tcm_144_1147500.pdf ... Continue Reading →
We where using hotadd function to backup on some SQL servers. From 40 min backup time to 10 hours! After applying veeam patch https://storage.veeam.com/Fix_138831_a62af14d05.zip The backup wnt down to 40 min again. Full story from veeam: https://www.veeam.com/kb2711
One smash, two flies After upgrading from 6.5 vcsa to 6.7 without any problem, update manager is missing in the clients, both flash and html5. No errors on services, and everything looked fine. But when I from Linux client browse to virtualcenter adress I get: NET::ERR_CERT_INVALID And I am not able to proceed to the... Continue Reading →
Easy one Uninstall VCenter Server from Windows Copy/Backup and Remove C:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware VirtualCenter\SSL Reinstall same Virtual Center that was installed before. Or you can follow this great blogg from Zlatko Mitev http://vbuffer.com/vcenter-selfsigned-certificates/ Some notifcation from me: OpenSSL 0.9.8 is requried http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/openssl.htm Deploying and using the SSL Certificate Automation Tool 5.5 http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&externalId=2057340 #When you are running openssl... Continue Reading →
When expand the vmdk from webclient, it breaks and error message could not complete. Then the VM gets invalid in the inventory Solution: See what datastore the vm resides Remove the invalid vm from inventory Browse the datastore that the invalid vm resides Add to inventory Power it on Works Power Down Expand the... Continue Reading →
Full list: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.7/rn/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-67-release-notes.html The vSphere 6.7 release is the final release of vCenter Server for Windows In-Guest unmap with snapshots VMware is deprecating webplatform.js, which will be replaced with an improved way to push updates into partner plugin solutions without any lifecycle dependencies on vSphere Client SDK updates. If you have an existing plugin solution to the... Continue Reading →
Get VM list from a datstore Get-datastore | Where {$_.name -like '*DATASTORE01*'} | Get-VM Find snapshots Get-Snapshot -vm * -name “VEEAM BACKUP*” | Format-Table -property VM,Name Clear snapshots Get-Snapshot -vm * -name “VEEAM BACKUP*” | remove-snapshot List VM and What Datastore get-vmhost |get-datastore|%{$ds=$_; $ds.Extensiondata.Vm|%{$_|select @{n='vm name';e={(Get-View -property name -Id $_.toString()).name}},@{n='ds name';e={$ds.name}} }} List... Continue Reading →
/etc/vmware/vpx/vpxa.cfg stop vpxa on the host (/etc/init.d/vpxa stop) Replace the hostname with host management IP in the vpxa.cfg file. start vpxa service (/etc/init.d/vpxa start)
curl https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc | sudo apt-key add - Add source deb [arch=amd64] https://packages.microsoft.com/debian/stretch/prod stretch main sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install -y powershell pwsh Install-Module -Name VMware.PowerCLI -Scope CurrentUser Update-Module VMware.PowerCLI
Thin Disks VM server Windows 50GB Disk C:\ Guest Zero in guest WILL fill the disk sdelete -z C:\ VMDK will be 50GB Guest will be 0GB Storage Will be 0GB IF it understand Zeroing To resolve VMDK size Storage Vmotion or vmkfstools -K /path/to/disk-name.vmdk https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2004155 or the best soloution run in-guest UNMAP BUT Virtual... Continue Reading →
This is not used after 6.0. You will see a warning in VirtualCeneter that you have a certificate warning. And if you go in to service you have a serivice that has a yellow warning. Because this is not used you can delete this one. ssh to vcenter Command> shell Shell access is granted to... Continue Reading →
To resolve this I did patch 5.5 first, reboot and then I was able to upgrade.
When remmidate you get this error. I installed the patches that I can stage. Stuck on Next step: esxcli network firewall unload esxcli software vib install -v http://vum.se:9084/vum/repository/hostupdate/vmw/vib20/tools-light/VMware_locker_tools-light_6.5.0-1.33.7273056.vib [DatabaseIOError] Failed to create temporary DB dir: [Errno 28] No space left on device: '/locker/packages/var/db/locker/profiles.new' filename = /locker/packages/var/db/locker Please refer to the log file for more... Continue Reading →
Dell: https://vmwaredepot.dell.com/index.xml) HP: http://vibsdepot.hpe.com/getting_started.html#DepotContent http://vibsdepot.hpe.com/index.xml - latest HPE Value-Add components (for VUM) http://vibsdepot.hpe.com/hpe/<release date>/index.xml or http://vibsdepot.hpe.com/hpq/<release date>/index.xml - latest HPE Value-Add components for a specific release http://vibsdepot.hpe.com/index-drv.xml - latest HPE and 3rd party device drivers used in the HPE Custom Image (for VUM) http://vibsdepot.hpe.com/hpe/<release date>/index-drv.xml or http://vibsdepot.hpe.com/hpq/<release date>/index-drv.xml - latest HPE... Continue Reading →
Scan the host with UpdateManager and look at the result: The upgrade contains the following set of conflicting VIBs QLogic_bootbank_scsi-qla2xxx_934.5.29.0-1OEM.500.0.0.472560 Emulex_bootbank_scsi-lpfc820_8.2.4.151.65-1OEM.500.0.0.472560 Emulex_bootbank_scsi-lpfc820_8.2.4.151.65-1OEM.500.0.0.472560 QLogic_bootbank_scsi-qla2xxx_934.5.29.0-1OEM.500.0.0.472560 Solution: esxcli software vib list | grep qla2 scsi-qla2xxx 934.5.29.0-1OEM.500.0.0.472560 QLogic VMwareCertified 2014-11-11 ~ # esxcli software vib remove -n scsi-qla2xxx Wait it take some time Removal Result Message: The update... Continue Reading →
Replace a Process Level Token privilege to the user Error when you do the prechecks https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn221975.aspx Login with your Administrator account on the Windows machine. Go to Control Panel and open the Administrative Tools. Open Local Security Policy and expand Local Policies. Under User Rights Assignment, open the Replace a Process Level Token. Add service account name that is being used by the... Continue Reading →
To resolve this issue, remove the xhci VIB file before upgrading the host. Connect to the affected ESXi host using an SSH session. For more information, see Using ESXi Shell in ESXi 5.x and 6.0 (SOL-2003). Delete the xhci VIB file by running this command: esxcli software vib remove --vibname xhci-xhci
Step 1. Download the latest patch bundle from link. Patches are cumulative. Each patch bundle (.zip archive) includes all the updates from prior patches. Step 2. Upload the patch zip to a datastore. Step 3. Enable SSH In the vSphere Web client start the SSH service and make a SSH session to the ESXi host... Continue Reading →
You get this when you clone a powered on vm. From: https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2069952 To resolve this issue, start the Windows Virtual Disk service: Log in to the Windows operating system as an Administrator. Click Start, type services.msc, and press Enter. Right-click the Virtual Disk service and click Start. If this does not resolve the issue, disable VMware snapshot provider in... Continue Reading →
They have chnage the way to app snapin! Get-Module -Name VMware.VimAutomation.Core -ListAvailable | Import-Module #add-pssnapin VMware.VimAutomation.Core Error: add-pssnapin VMware.VimAutomation.Cor add-pssnapin : No snap-ins have been registered for Windows PowerShell version 3. At line:1 char:1 + add-pssnapin VMware.VimAutomation.Cor + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + CategoryInfo : InvalidArgument: (VMware.VimAutomation.Cor:String) [Add-PSSnapin], PSArgumentException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : AddPSSnapInRead,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.AddPSSnapinCommand
From: https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2147284 Cautions: The following is a destructive task. Ensure you have working backups and/or snapshots of the vCenter Server Appliance 6.5 before proceeding. Connect to vCenter Server Appliance 6.5 via SSH Run the shell command to switch to the BASH Shell:shell Stop the VMware Update Manager Service:service-control --stop vmware-updatemgr Run the following command... Continue Reading →
From: http://www.virtuallyghetto.com/2010/07/how-to-unregister-vcenter.html 1. Point your web browser to your vCenter server: https://VC-Server/mob and login. 2. Click on content: 3. Locate and click on ExtensionManager: 4. Click on the plugin you are interested in removing: 5. Record the plugin key id which will be used to remove the plugin: 6. Now, go back to previous page and at the... Continue Reading →
from the migration log: 2017-08-18 15:31:41.969Z| migration-assistant-5973321| E: ParsePreUpgradeOutput: Error: Failed to discover a system name that is compatible with both your VMware vCenter Server certificate and your VMware Single Sign-On certificate that can be used to migrate to a VMware vCenter Server Appliance with an embedded Platform Services Controller. 2017-08-18 15:31:41.969Z| migration-assistant-5973321| I: ParsePreUpgradeOutput:... Continue Reading →
The proxy settings is only for http (in gui). You need to set this for https also. This is done from the cli. Enable ssh on the appliance ssh login with root com.vmware.appliance.version1.networking.proxy.set --protocol https --server 192.168.1.1 --port 8080
Felmeddelande med Precheck vid migrering: Error: Source vCenter Server schema validation found an issue. 1 [42000](50000) [Microsoft][SQL Server Native Client 10.0][SQL Server]ERROR ! Missing constraints: VPX_ENTITY_LAST_EVENT.FK_VPX_LAST_EVENT_EVENT; Testa först med detta sql script: alter table VPX_ENTITY_LAST_EVENT add constraint FK_VPX_LAST_EVENT_EVENT foreign key(LAST_EVENT_ID) references VPX_EVENT (EVENT_ID) on delete cascade Funkar inte detta måste följande göras: Please follow... Continue Reading →
Using esxtop to identify storage performance issues Details This article provides information about esxtop and latency statistics that can be used when troubleshooting performance issues with SAN-connected storage (Fibre Channel or iSCSI). Solution The interactive esxtop utility can be used to provide I/O metrics over various devices attached to a VMware ESX host. Configuring monitoring using esxtop To monitor... Continue Reading →
Vcenter server must be in reversed lookup zon in dns. Or you will not able to login.
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