vCenter 6.7 FQDN , Domain , IP subnet need to change
Hi Team, Need to change my vcenter 6.7 vcsa existing FQDN , Domain , IP subnet. So can i change in the existing vcsa and it will effect any hosts that or connected or shall i go with fresh...
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upgrade vCenter Server
Hi,I need to update VMware Vcenter Server appliance. I have PSC and two Vcenter appliances installed. Do I have to upgrade the PSC first and then update the VCSA? Does the order matter? Thank you, in...
View ArticlevCenter LDAPs
Hi, we use vSphere v6.7 U2 and i have an external AD identity source configured using LDAP. We have a requirement to change the configuration to use LDAPs. Firstly, can the existing identity source be...
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VCSA 6.7 cannot log in to admin page :5480 cannot login update installation...
We had a power failure when upgrading a VCSA from vCenter Appliance 6.7 Update 3g (6.7.0.44000) to vCenter Appliance 6.7 Update 3j (6.7.0.45000) It was in the staging process when the power failed.Once...
View ArticleVCSA 6.7 Does not see patches when scanned from ISO
Morning all We have a few vCenters and external PSCs all are sepparate none are in linked mode.Currently at ver 6.7.0.31100 (which is I beleive 6.7 u2b) Wanted to go to latest and greatest update and...
View ArticleVCSA, upgrade from 6.7 to 7.0?
We are running VCSA 6.7.0.4500. When we login to the web interface it is showing an Update to 7.0.1.0000. All of our hosts of course are running ESXi 6.7Should I upgrade VCSA to version 7 even though...
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Effect of Tanzu architecture on vSphere vCentre
Hi, would like to understand the effect of Kubernetes architecture that VMware is moving towards on vSphere vCentre. Will it have any effect on vcsa functionality and the existing vendor plugins that...
View ArticleNew(ish) Windows vCenter issues (Error 503)
Community, I have an issue that I cannot wrap my head around. I have a windows server 2016 virtual machine that I had vCenter 6.7 installed to in a lab environment. We migrated the system to a new...
View ArticlePerformance Overview - Virtual Machine View - No Performance Data after...
I get 'No performance data is available for the currently selected metrics' when selecting a Host / Performance Overview and change the view to Virtual Machine.The data was there in 7.0c, but is...
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Could not connect to VMware Directory Service via LDAP. Verify VMware...
HiI am stuck in this windows :and then the error:Could not connect to VMware Directory Service via LDAP. Verify VMware Directory Service is running on the appropriate system and is reachable from this...
View ArticleNeed appropriate TLS reconfigurator version for VCSA 6.5 U3l
We are using VCSA 6.5 build number: 16764584Per https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2143838 : build number 16764584 is vCenter Server 6.5u3l (lower case L)Per https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2147469 -...
View ArticlevCenter appliance on ARM?
I'd like to create a home lab based on the new ARM support but would I need an x86 host just for the vCenter appliance or is there support for it running on an ARM host?
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VCSA 6.7 shows 7.0 Update ?
Hello, after updating VCSA 6.7 to 6.7.0.45000 the VAMI shows me this: is that ok ? think this is a bug
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Migrating vCenter 6.5 to appliance 6.7 with vcloud availability considerations
Hello,I want to migrate a vCenter 6.5 (Windows) to vCenter 6.7 appliance but I have some questions. In vCenter 6.5 I have the vCloud Availabilty to backup some VM's and I would like to maintain all...
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VCSA on a VVOL? Is this supported?
Hi, i just started again with playing around with VVOLs, i installed my VASA appliance on a local small datastore and all is working fine. Except one thing: I can't vMotion my VCSA from one host to a...
View ArticlevCenter / Active Directory user group sync
VCSA 6.7 U3 Hi. I have the VCSA joined to AD via Integrated Windows Authentication. Synchronization of group membership from Active Directory to the VCSA is very slow - approx. 50 minutes. For...
View ArticleRemediation Pre-check in Vcenter 7.0U1
What mean "VMware vCenter Server is installed on the virtual machine and DRS is disabled on the cluster."What is to do to resolve this problem? i don't have Cluster on my system, only to servers!...
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Restore of VCSA 7 Update 1 to 7 keep failing
My attempted restore of VCSA 7 Update 1 back to VCSA 7 is failing, I am restoring back to 7.0 because vCLS VMs are failing to start , a feature that came with update 1, this is because I have not...
View ArticleDeploy New VCSA7 - Error save IP Settings
Hello, i have deploy a new VCSA 7U1. I will start the initial setup over the Web UI https://vcsa.domain.de:5480.I can login and click to set up. So good. But on the Step 2 vCenter Configuration came...
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Could not connect to one or more VCenter
I am running the vsphere 6.5 vcenter appliance. It is the only vcenter server we have. I can connect to it through the webclient, I can log in but it does not show me any inventory As can be seen,...
View ArticlevCenter 7.0.0d Recovery 2nd stage errors
Hi,I am trying to recover vcenter from backup. Unfortunately am getting this same error from all backupsvcenter 7.0.0d, 7.0.0.10700I have no idea what is wrong.Validation Result ErrorMetadata and...
View Articleupgraded to vcenter 7.0 but cannot see topology under system configuration
I upgraded and converged all my 6.7 psc appliances to 7.0 embedded but now I cannot see the topology under system configuration any idea? Also how do I decomission the old excternal 6.7 psc?
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after converging external 6.7 PSC and upgrading to 7 - itename is showing...
why is it that when i converge and upgrade my 6.7 psc to 7.0 embedded, now when i run /usr/lib/vmware-vmafd/bin/vmafd-cli get-site-name --server-name localhost Its showing Default-First-Site I have...
View ArticlePossibility Vcenter 6.7 can block/limit some Datastore stats in Grafana?
Hello all, I'm using Grafana to monitor our VM Clusters. It just uses telegraf and connects to vCenter. Most of the information is showing in Grafana, but only about 60% of the datastores. I seems to...
View ArticleIdm client exception: Error trying to join AD, error code [31], user...
I am having issues joining vCenter to Active Directory, and I can't figure out what the issue is. I was able to join vCenter on a test lab environment at home, but in production I don't know what the...
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Waiting for RPM installation to finish (86% done.)
Hi, I am working on Workstation 15. I installed ESXi 7.0.0 after that install VCSA 7.0. VCSA7.0 is installed on ESXi. After installation f VCSI i try to open from IP in Chrome but got below screen shot...
View Articleinstallation is frozen at the step 2 vCenter 7 "Starting VMware Appliance...
Hi guys. The installation is frozen at the step 2 vCenter 7 "Starting VMware Appliance Configuration" and the message appears in esxi 7 "the guest OS configuration (other version 3.x or later Linux...
View ArticleIncorrect service registration found in Lookup Service since update to 7.0.1
Hi, since upgrade from 7.0d to 7.0.1 have this errors in the vCenter Server Management: Incorrect service registration found in Lookup Service. Multiple services registered on same URL -...
View ArticleVCSA 6.7 corrupt
After a recent power outage our VCHA cluster got corrupt. They would not talk together on vcha network and I lost access to vcsa. After doing some investigating we did some commands to make the one...
View Articlevcenter error
I attached the screenshot, what does it mean? I am getting an error on vcenter. nmi watchdog bug soft lockup
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VCSA Appliance Unable to Update
Hello I'm trying to resolve this issue, has anyone seen this before? Both the update screen and the main summary screen shows blank information for the appliance details, type, version etc......
View ArticlevCenter appliance 6.0 - recurring error messages
Hey folks, i recently noticed some recurring error on the vCenter appliance thanks to our SIEM. I get 475 of the following messages each hour: Oct 22 08:00:14 myvcenter vmafdd t@140038333421312:...
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vCenter 7.0.1 update completed, then hanged, still showing 7.0.0.1
Hello all. I went to update VCSA to latest.Went through the whole process.VAMI timed out after about 5 hours.Tried logging back in, no go.Took these actions:...
View ArticleAPI To Fetch vCenter Role
Do we have any endpoints to get vCenter Roles? From Powershell we can get the roles info, but do we have endpoint from developer center to get this info? Basically, I am looking for a way to fetch...
View ArticlePrevent host power on when vCenter restarts?
Hi, is there a setting that during a reboot of the VCSA or restarting the vpxd service the hosts which are in standby will be kept in standby? Currently they will always be powered on... Kind...
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Migrated vcsa server to new host - all datastores inaccessible and all hosts...
Hi,After migrating a vcsa server to a new host by cloning and moving to a new host ( with a new IP) all the entities see within vcsa are either "disconnected" ( hosts and vms) or "inaccessible" (...
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7.0U1: every 2 mins: lots of Events "vCenter xxx File System Resource status...
Hello,after updating my VCSA from 6.7U3 to 7.0U1 I get every two minutes the same events (vim.event.ResourceExhaustionStatusChangedEvent) vCenter xxx File System Resource status changed from Yellow to...
View ArticleVCenter 7 occupy more than 3TB
Hello,I have just migrated a VSAN cluster from 6.7U3 to 7.0U1.Apart of big network issue with Mellanox ConnetctX-4 LX cards that I'm trying to solve upgrading driver/firmware (now the cards go to...
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VCSA Install
Hello, I recently downloaded the trial of VCSA 7U1a. I seem to be having issues with setting up the Server. I have tried the windows install to the ip address and the included OVF with no luck. Below...
View ArticleVCSA install - Unable to save IP settings
Trying to install latest VCSA 7.0.1 trial in lab under VM Workstation but getting "Unable to save IP settings" during the set up phase no matter what I do. VM is allocated 2 x Intel Core i7-10700,...
View ArticleInstalling a wildcard SSL on vCenter
Is it possible to install a wildcard SSL Certificate issued by GoDaddy for the vCenter Server, to make the communication secure.If possible how to do it. Thank you
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Upgrading vCenter 6.7 to 7u1 through VAMI
Hello My VAMI Update Manager lists 7.0.1.00000 as an available update.Can the complete upgrade process be done though Update Manager now?I have only tried upgrading vCenter by downloading the...
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vCenter v6.7u3 openLDAP LDAPS SSO
Hello: I've been attempting to configure vCenter v6.7u3 to use an openLDAP server as a SSO using LDAPS and in the process been unsuccessful. The main problem is that vCenter will establish a tls...
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login failed due to invalid credentials for one or more vcenter server system
Our customer cannot login on vcenter server using AD account. we already validated the time synchronization but still can't login the users.
View ArticleSwap file - urgent
Hi all, relocated server, for some reason swap file was on another attached location. Now no vms will start can’t access swap file. esxi 6.0. Is there a quick easy way to get the vms up and running...
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v7u1 update failed loop
With new updates to apply to vCenter 7.0U1 showing in my console (7.0.1.00000 to 7.0.1.00100), I thought I'd update my lab. Unfortunately, I'm now stuck in a loop of failing update checks [see attached...
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VCSA 6.7 - SNMP v3 configuration
Hello folks, Hope you are doing well. I am trying to configure SNMP v3 on VCSA and I am trying to follow the next procedure: Configure the SNMP Engine ID I am not being able to find the snmp.set...
View ArticleViewing vcenter log
Hi,In the documents of vsphere 6.5 [1], I see Navigate to the location of the log browser manifest file. The default location is: /usr/lib/vmware-vsphere-client/plugin-packages/logbrwoserRename the...
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Messing up sendmail
HiIt seems that I did something wrong with the sendmail configuration files via the vcenter bash. I addeddefine(`SMART_HOST', `our_smtp_address')dnlto /etc/mail/sendmail.mc and then ran # m4...
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Multiple Vcenter Servers.
I have 2 Vcenter servers. One is the SSO server for both. It is joined to my AD domain. If I log into it with my vsphere credentials I see both servers. If I log in with my AD credentials I only see...
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