In these series we will create a lab with multiple components, a jumphost, vcsa, esxi, a vsan enabled cluster, nsx and maybe more. The aim of the series is to learn about deploying all components onto the Ravello cloud. Part 1: Creating the Jumphost Part one of the series will be about creating the jumphost. I’m …

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I had downtime in my lab due to an power failure which resulted in a boot failure of my VCSA 6.5 appliance. Looking on the console showed me a "[FAILED] Failed to start File System Check on /dev/dis...uuid/uuid. See 'systemctl status system-fsck-root.service' for details." message. Therefor it booted into 'Emergency …

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When connecting to your vCenter server via PowerCLI, one can use the -menu option. This will give a list of entries you recently used. You can manage the entries here: C:\Users\username\Appdata\Roaming\VMware\PowerCLI\RecentServerList.xml Connect-viserver -menu

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vCenter is showing an alarm on the TrendMicro Deep Security Virtual Appliance (DSVA): ‘vShield Endpoint SVM status’ Checking vShield for errors: The DSVA VA console window shows: (as to where it should show a red/grey screen) Let’s go for some log file analysis To get a login prompt: Alt + F2 Login with user dsva and …

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Start the ssh service on all hosts: Get-VMHost | Foreach { Start-VMHostService -HostService ($_ | Get-VMHostService | Where {$_.Key -eq "TSM-SSH"}) } <div class="uagb-ifb-content"> <div class="uagb-ifb-title-wrap"> </div> <div class="uagb-ifb-text-wrap"> <p class="uagb-ifb-desc"> <em>Thanks to Alan Renouf at …

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VMware I/O Analyzer is a tool to launch orchestrated tests against a storage solution available from the VMware flings website. It can be used as a single appliance where the worker process and the analytics is done within. Additional appliances can be deployed to act as Worker VMs. The Analyzer VM launches IOmeter …

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VMware SRM 5.8.1 Embedded Database refuses to uninstall. Clicking uninstall in ‘Control Panel – Programs and Features’ showed a progress bar going forward and then rolling back. Afterwards ‘Control Panel – Programs and Features’ showed that the embedded PostgreSQL was still installed. So I tried it through the command …

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UCS Manager is showing 309 errors because a Firmware Packages have been deleted but the references in the Host Firmware Packages (HFP) still exist. Appears that all of the errors show a cause of ‘image-deleted’. In the ‘Affected object’ the path where the error is originating is shown. In the first error it shows …

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In a VSAN project the VMware Compatibility Guide mentioned a different driver version for the raid controller than the one that was installed. So I tried to install a driver update for the raid controller through the CLI. This did not work out as expected because the /altbootbank was in a corrupted state. There were …

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Anyone knowing a bit of Linux has come across tail. For those who don't know tail, it is a tool that will monitor text files, eg log files, for changes and display the newly added content in the terminal window. This comes in handy when troubleshooting actions and looking in the log file what has been logged. I was …

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