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vCenter 6.7 FQDN , Domain , IP subnet need to change

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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 installation of vcsa with above mention changes.

 

If i got will fresh installation existing vcenter license can be used for New vcenter ?


I have   50 hosts and 4 Datacenters and each data center having 5 clusters and iam using standard licnese for the esxi hosts.

 

There is no Distributed switch, DRS implementation in this setup

 

Please suggest me the best possible way for this requirement.


upgrade vCenter Server

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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 advance, for any replies.

vCenter LDAPs

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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 updated to LDAPs or does a new identity source need to be created for LDAPs?

 

Secondly, can two identity sources for the same domain co-exist? If the answer is no does vCenter allow removing the LDAP identity source and to add the LDAPs identity source for the same domain? I'm not sure if it's true but read that a vCenter re-install my be required.

 

Lastly, i've limited experience on CA certificates which is a requirement to implement LDAPs. Can anyone sure a clear guide to complete the following:-

  • Install CA for AD (on a DC) - I'm not sure if CA needs to be installed but a certifcate is required for LDAPs
  • Export certificate for use in LDAPs identity source configuration on the vCenter server

 

Thanks

VCSA 6.7 cannot log in to admin page :5480 cannot login update installation in progress

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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 the power was restored I started seeing the the message on the management page "cannot login update installation in progress" in a red banner between the password line and login button.

 

I was able to log in to the vCenter web GUI and manage the environment but the system was unpatched

I connected the patch ISO to the vCenter VM

I enabled the Shell and connected via SSH

I ran the following commands

software-packages stage –-iso

software-packages list –-staged

software-packages install –-staged

Patch completed and said system had to reboot to complete

rebooted appliance

 

Could log in and manage environment and patch level showed vCenter Appliance 6.7 Update 3j (6.7.0.45000)

Console, SSH and powercli all work yet still get error cannot login update installation in progress when I attempt to open the Administration page

VCSA 6.7 Does not see patches when scanned from ISO

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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 patch U3j.

So downloaded the .ISO in the normal manner mounted it to the PSC and rescanned vCenter returns "No Updates Found" which is obviously rubbish.

Also tried mounting the .ISO from a physical box via a VMRC session again vCenter picks nothing up.

Tried the same on 2 other PSCs same deal.

 

As there is no intenet connectivity from our core i cant scan the vMware repository.

I dont really want to run the install commands on a total of 40 different appliances...

 

Ive never seen this before, really feels like a bug to me anyone seen anything simmilar..?

 

Cheers all

P

VCSA, upgrade from 6.7 to 7.0?

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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 6.7

Should I upgrade VCSA to version 7 even though we have no plans to upgraded hosts?

Effect of Tanzu architecture on vSphere vCentre

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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 gets registered with vSphere vCentre server?

 

Thanks

New(ish) Windows vCenter issues (Error 503)

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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 domain and changed IP's.  Before moving, we uninstalled the vcenter application and reinstalled after migration.  Upon reinstall we can access the vcenter client with no issues but after a restart we get the dreaded Error 503.  Postgres SQL is not running and when I go into ODBC 64 bit and test the connection, its refused.  If I revert a snapshot to pre reboot, the service is running but will not start after reboot. 

 

I have verified that windows services are started.  I have even gone in and performed the service-control start on vpxd and other non started services with no luck.  The vpxd log shows issues with postgres so I think that is where I need to focus my efforts but I can't seem to figure this out.  Any assistance will be greatly appreciated. 

 

The server is on a closed network so I will be unable to upload logs/give full log data due to that limitation but I can transcribe some of the log here if need be.

 

Thank you in advance!


Performance Overview - Virtual Machine View - No Performance Data after upgrading to 7.0.1

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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 missing after upgrading to 7.0.1.

I have checked the statistic level - which is set to 3, and changed it to 4 to see if it makes a difference.

 

Is anyone able to confirm they see the same thing or know why this data is now now being graphed ?

 

Regards

Could not connect to VMware Directory Service via LDAP. Verify VMware Directory Service is running on the appropriate system and is reachable from this host.

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Hi

I am stuck in this windows :

error.jpg

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 host.

 

i will add the log file- please help me fix this ( this is an home lab )

thanks a lot

Need appropriate TLS reconfigurator version for VCSA 6.5 U3l

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We are using VCSA 6.5 build number: 16764584

Per  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  - the appropriate rpm for this is VMware-vSphereTlsReconfigurator-6.5.0-5597882.x86_64.rpm

 

Unfortunately we cannot find this rpm on the vmware download site.  The closest TLS reconfigurator rpm we have found to our VCSA version 6.5 U3l is the 6.5 U3k rpm below :

 

 

Name:VMware-vSphereTlsReconfigurator-6.5.0-16478865.x86_64.rpm
Release Date:2020-07-30
Build Number:16478865

 

 

Can someone assist?

 

Thank you,

 

SDH

vCenter appliance on ARM?

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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?

VCSA 6.7 shows 7.0 Update ?

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Hello,

 

after updating VCSA 6.7 to 6.7.0.45000 the VAMI shows me this:

 

is that ok ? think this is a bug

Migrating vCenter 6.5 to appliance 6.7 with vcloud availability considerations

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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 configurations after this upgrade. What cconsideration we need to pay attention to don't lose confs and replications?

 

Thanks in advance,

VCSA on a VVOL? Is this supported?

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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 other.

 

In the Web Client the vMotion freezes between 40 and 50%, because the whole vCenter isn't pingable.

 

If i look on the destination esxi host, in the Web Client the VCSA is on the host but shows switched off, on CLI in the task list the VCSA is running on the destination host. On the source host is nothing. I waited a few minutes but nothing happens. So i killed the vmx task of the VCSA. After that the VCSA disappered from the hosts inventory. Then i used the datastore browser to insert the VM to the inventory and was able to startup the VCSA normally.

 

So, before i go deepter with my research and creating a case for this problem. Is it supported to run the VCSA on VVOL's?

 

Kind regards

Stefan


vCenter / Active Directory user group sync

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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 example, I add a user to the 'Full Admin' AD group. It will take approximately 50 minutes for AD/VCSA to sync and grant the full admin permissions on user login.

 

NTP is configured for the ESXi hosts / Domain Controllers / VCSA and I've verified all are consistent.

 

Is there a value somewhere set for the AD/VCSA sync?

 

Is there a way I can force the sync ?

 

Thanks in advance.

Remediation Pre-check in Vcenter 7.0U1

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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!

 

Thanks for help

Restore of VCSA 7 Update 1 to 7 keep failing

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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 enabled EVC on my cluster

 

RestoreManager encountered an exception. See logs for details. https://x.x.x.x:5480/vami/backend/vc-support.cgi

Deploy New VCSA7 - Error save IP Settings

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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 the failure : Unable to Save IP-Settings

The Wizard go not forward? Have anyone a idea?

Could not connect to one or more VCenter

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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, only shows Could not connect to one or more VCenter Server. I already tried KB2050273. But is not my case.

 

I checked the services

 

I tried to start vmware-vpxd service but never started.

 

I checked the space and seems to be ok

 

 

This is part of the vpxd.log | grep -i "error"

 

This vcenter appliance used to work. But it has had this problem two weeks ago.

Any ideas on how to get this VCSA to manage the environment again?

 

Thanks

vCenter 7.0.0d Recovery 2nd stage errors

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Hi,

I am trying to recover vcenter from backup. Unfortunately am getting this same error from all backups

vcenter 7.0.0d, 7.0.0.10700

I have no idea what is wrong.

Validation Result

 

Error

Metadata and system validation failed.

 

 

Error

Error: Unknown system resource type vtsdblog

 

 

Error

Error: Unknown system resource type vtsdb

 

 

Error

Error: Unknown system resource type seat

 

 

Error

Error: Unknown system resource type core

 

I have no idea what is wrong.

upgraded to vcenter 7.0 but cannot see topology under system configuration

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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?


after converging external 6.7 PSC and upgrading to 7 - itename is showing Default-First-Site

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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 multiple vcsa in linked mode and each has their own sitename in 6.7

Possibility Vcenter 6.7 can block/limit some Datastore stats in Grafana?

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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 only show the same datastore stats, the others get listed but no stats.

 

 

We have 84 datastores/vVols in total (50 hosts), could it be this?

 

 

 

Thanks

 

Idm client exception: Error trying to join AD, error code [31], user [admin@corp.local], domain [corp.local], orgUnit []

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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 issue is. I have created the Active Directory computer object with the FQDN and specified correct join rights. There are static A and PTR records that I can confirm by performing nslookups on. My account credentials can join other servers to the domain.

 

I am using the latest version of vCenter 6.7 Update 3j (6.7.0.45000)

 

 

I don't have rights over the domain controller which makes troubleshooting more difficult, but I have done the following:

 

 

Use the CLI to join AD. I receive code: ERROR_GEN_FAILURE [code 0x0000001f]

 

Add and enable SMB2enabled registry key. SMB1 is disabled on the domain controller and is running SMB2. I still received the same error.

 

Verified NTP servers are synced

 

I ran test-netconnection from a Windows workstation targeting the domain controller and verified that TCP 53, 88, 389, 443, and 445 are all open. https://communities.vmware.com/thread/599423. I can perform an nslookup from the vCenter console and resolve the domain controller name. I added an allow firewall rule for the domain controllers in the VAMI.

 

 

When I ran tcpdump on the vCenter console while joining to AD, I could see syn and acknowledgement packets from the vCenter to domain controller on the above listed ports. The last connections seem to be at port 53 of the domain controller when it errors out. I tried installing another instance of vCenter with a different FQDN and receive the same error.

 

 

I was able to add Active Directory over LDAP as an identity source and view all the users/groups in the domain. However, I was unable to get smart card authentication to work (main reason I am integrating vCenter with AD); I could only sign in with username/password. When I sign in with my smart card, I receive the error "Unable to validate submitted credentials".

 

 

I honestly can't figure out what the issue is with joining vCenter to Active Directory. Do you guys have any ideas or clues like what logs I can read to possibly find out the issue? Thanks for taking the time to read.

 

Waiting for RPM installation to finish (86% done.)

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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 page from long time. i am updated DNS record on AD also. Restart ESXi, VCSA and AD. but same issue. Please help.

 

installation is frozen at the step 2 vCenter 7 "Starting VMware Appliance Configuration"

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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 (64-bit) for this VM does not match the guest OS that is currently running (VMWare Photon OS (64-bit)). You must specify the correct guest OS to allow for optimization for specific guests)"

 

what is the problem ?

Incorrect service registration found in Lookup Service since update to 7.0.1

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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 - http://localhost:10102/certificateauthority.

Incorrect service registration found in Lookup Service. Multiple services registered on same URL - http://localhost:10098/topologysvc.

Incorrect service registration found in Lookup Service. Multiple services registered on same URL - http://localhost:10095/trustmanagement.

Incorrect service registration found in Lookup Service. Multiple services registered on same URL - http://localhost:7080/tokenservice/vapi.

Incorrect service registration found in Lookup Service. Multiple services registered on same URL - http://localhost:7080/svcaccountmgmt/vapi.

Incorrect service registration found in Lookup Service. Multiple services registered on same URL - http://localhost:10096/certificatemanagement.

Failed to connect to 1da6ff8a-0bfd-4605-b4cc-c18ba520e95b\com.vmware.vcenter.nsxd.vapi vAPI provider.

Configuration health status is created between 2020-10-11T16:41:58CEST and 2020-10-11T16:41:58CEST.

 

For the last one, there is a KB, this can be ignored and for the other errors i searched a little bit.

 

In the /var/log/vmware/vapi/endpoint/endpoint.log i found this:

 

Duplicate service URLs detected for URL http://localhost:10102/certificateauthority and serviceIds f4f49eca-389a-4cd4-9539-7b016cd9b387\com.vmware.certificateauthority.vapi and f50da208-1be7-4752-8cda-8651fb94f4bc\com.vmware.certificateauthority.vapi. Service f4f49eca-389a-4cd4-9539-7b016cd9b387\com.vmware.certificateauthority.vapi will not be registered.

Duplicate service URLs detected for URL http://localhost:10098/topologysvc and serviceIds cca05588-4a35-4fb9-aa99-4865202e24db\com.vmware.topology.vapi and 990a4172-d373-43d3-8303-be7cc56b2d64\com.vmware.topology.vapi. Service cca05588-4a35-4fb9-aa99-4865202e24db\com.vmware.topology.vapi will not be registered.

Duplicate service URLs detected for URL http://localhost:10095/trustmanagement and serviceIds b5667b24-3ea2-46eb-a153-37ec8d05c1b5\com.vmware.trustmanagement.vapi and dcaaa1f3-1ac7-4743-be12-37cb748c891e\com.vmware.trustmanagement.vapi. Service b5667b24-3ea2-46eb-a153-37ec8d05c1b5\com.vmware.trustmanagement.vapi will not be registered.

Duplicate service URLs detected for URL http://localhost:7080/tokenservice/vapi and serviceIds 5d3aa82a-a699-4491-8f30-f7914cb8aad6\com.vmware.vcenter.tokenservice.vapi and cef7ec77-cc98-4bd5-81a0-e96d3d142688\com.vmware.vcenter.tokenservice.vapi. Service 5d3aa82a-a699-4491-8f30-f7914cb8aad6\com.vmware.vcenter.tokenservice.vapi will not be registered.

Duplicate service URLs detected for URL http://localhost:7080/svcaccountmgmt/vapi and serviceIds 0e651d0a-db45-4bba-bd1d-7cc40ce831e0\com.vmware.vcenter.svcaccountmgmt.vapi and 07d98dc1-e032-4ab7-b8e2-653985872e69\com.vmware.vcenter.svcaccountmgmt.vapi. Service 0e651d0a-db45-4bba-bd1d-7cc40ce831e0\com.vmware.vcenter.svcaccountmgmt.vapi will not be registered.

Duplicate service URLs detected for URL http://localhost:10096/certificatemanagement and serviceIds adc31b6e-dc7c-4e4f-9a91-d560d6686720\com.vmware.certificatemanagement.vapi and ff27d086-58ac-4215-b672-9ea31f62933d\com.vmware.certificatemanagement.vapi. Service adc31b6e-dc7c-4e4f-9a91-d560d6686720\com.vmware.certificatemanagement.vapi will not be registered.

 

For a similar problem i at a customer got a command-syntax from the support with "ldapdelete" and with that i deleted the id's which are not registered. after restarting the vapi-endpoint the erros are gone and don't came back.

 

My question, has someone here a similar problem, how was it solved?

 

Was my way to delete the not registered ID's correct?

 

Kind regards

Stefan

VCSA 6.7 corrupt

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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 that had the vcsa IP address for web access (main vcenter IP).  Ran a couple commands to make that vm the primary vcha-reset-primary, then collapse the vcha with vcha-destroy.  We rebooted the remaining vm and it looked like it was going to work.  The VM had two ip address but still nothing.  Can not access anything.  My question is can I just turn this vm off and reinstall vcenter server appliance and add the hosts to the new vcenter then delete the old one? 

 

Thanks


vcenter error

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I attached the screenshot, what does it mean? I am getting an error on vcenter.

 

nmi watchdog bug soft lockup

VCSA Appliance Unable to Update

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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...

 

Performing a check against the repository shows the No JSON object could be decoded message.

 

Running vpxd -v hangs and doesn't respond when I run the command.

 

The build I'm running is 6.5 16613358

 

 

 

vCenter appliance 6.0 - recurring error messages

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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: _ConfigGetInteger failed. Error code [2]. [../../../server/vmafd/config.c,1525]

Oct 22 08:00:14 myvcenter vmafdd t@140038333421312: VmAfSrvGetDCPort failed. Error code [2]. [../../../server/vmafd/config.c,328]

 

I was not able to find anything on Google, Bing or DuckDuckgo search engines. 0 results. (really??)

 

I have 3 ESXi with EVC, vSphere HA and vMotion; everything is running with no issues.

 

Any tip is well appreciated

 

Thanks

vCenter 7.0.1 update completed, then hanged, still showing 7.0.0.1

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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: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/67179

Finally got back in and the version did not change.

Still showing the old version.

Tried to check and and VAMI showing no updates available.

Tried manually update via SSH. Got this.

update error.PNG

Any ideas on how to fix this ?

The bootstrap.log is attached.

API To Fetch vCenter Role

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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 all the privileges set on a role and the role name from a Linux server without use of powershell.

Prevent host power on when vCenter restarts?

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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 regards

Stefan

Migrated vcsa server to new host - all datastores inaccessible and all hosts disconnected

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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" ( datastores). All right click options on any entity is also greyed out

Capture.PNG

 

I followed another link suggesting clone, power off old, power on new was the procedure but I'm wondering if the new IP may have affected the licensing state

Is there a way to get vcsa back to normal from this point

 

I have clicked through licenses and I believe the ones we need are assigned and not expired. We have 2 others which are expired but I think not used and were expired before the move

Capture.PNG

 

Regards

Paul


7.0U1: every 2 mins: lots of Events "vCenter xxx File System Resource status changed from Yellow to Green"

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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 Green on ...

 

I can't see any change from green to yellow.

 

Are there any hints?

 

regards,

Ulrich

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VCenter 7 occupy more than 3TB

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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 2Gbit/s and VSAN is super slow), I have noticed that VCenter (that has some disks Thick even on VSAN), has 2 disks of 1.4TB of size (99% free but thick), VMDK7 and VMDK13...

 

Filesystem                                Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on

devtmpfs                                  5.9G     0  5.9G   0% /dev

tmpfs                                     5.9G  932K  5.9G   1% /dev/shm

tmpfs                                     5.9G  1.2M  5.9G   1% /run

tmpfs                                     5.9G     0  5.9G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup

/dev/sda3                                  46G  5.2G   39G  12% /

/dev/sda2                                 120M   27M   85M  24% /boot

/dev/mapper/lifecycle_vg-lifecycle         98G  3.6G   90G   4% /storage/lifecycle

/dev/mapper/vtsdblog_vg-vtsdblog           15G   73M   14G   1% /storage/vtsdblog

/dev/mapper/core_vg-core                   25G   45M   24G   1% /storage/core

/dev/mapper/vtsdb_vg-vtsdb                1.4T  108M  1.4T   1% /storage/vtsdb

/dev/mapper/archive_vg-archive             49G  1.2G   46G   3% /storage/archive

/dev/mapper/db_vg-db                      9.8G  232M  9.1G   3% /storage/db

/dev/mapper/updatemgr_vg-updatemgr         98G  908M   93G   1% /storage/updatemgr

/dev/mapper/netdump_vg-netdump            985M  2.5M  915M   1% /storage/netdump

/dev/mapper/imagebuilder_vg-imagebuilder  9.8G   37M  9.3G   1% /storage/imagebuilder

/dev/mapper/autodeploy_vg-autodeploy      9.8G   37M  9.3G   1% /storage/autodeploy

tmpfs                                     5.9G  7.2M  5.9G   1% /tmp

/dev/mapper/dblog_vg-dblog                 15G  105M   14G   1% /storage/dblog

/dev/mapper/seat_vg-seat                  1.4T  349M  1.4T   1% /storage/seat

/dev/mapper/log_vg-log                    9.8G  1.7G  7.6G  19% /storage/log

tmpfs                                     1.0M     0  1.0M   0% /var/spool/snmp

 

How is that happened? And, more important, how can I solve this safely?

 

Thanks

Manuel

VCSA Install

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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 are is the error I am getting with the OVF. I also have the logs from the windows install, But don't know what to look at specifically

 

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Thanks!

VCSA install - Unable to save IP settings

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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, 11.7 GB memory. Its got a static IP and bridged to the local network which has a DNS server which I am confident is working because I can see the lookups and replies.

 

Wanting to get a lab running for NSX-T 3.0. Relatively new to this.

 

Thanks.

Installing a wildcard SSL on vCenter

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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

Upgrading vCenter 6.7 to 7u1 through VAMI

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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 GUI-installer and running this through my client PC.

 

Thank you.

vCenter v6.7u3 openLDAP LDAPS SSO

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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 connection and verify the certificate signatures, but will then close the connection immediately.

 

Here is an excerpt from when trying to submit the SSO configuration:

af4d4d42-75c4-403b-bdad-79f976bfd9a8 INFO  com.vmware.identity.interop.ldap.SslX509EqualityMatchVerificationCallback] Server SSL certificate is a trusted certificate.

af4d4d42-75c4-403b-bdad-79f976bfd9a8 WARN  com.vmware.identity.interop.ldap.LdapErrorChecker] Error received by LDAP client: com.vmware.identity.interop.ldap.OpenLdapClientLibrary, error code: -1

af4d4d42-75c4-403b-bdad-79f976bfd9a8 WARN  com.vmware.identity.idm.server.ServerUtils] cannot bind connection: [ldaps://10.10.35.31, cn=admin,dc=example,dc=com]

af4d4d42-75c4-403b-bdad-79f976bfd9a8 ERROR com.vmware.identity.idm.server.ServerUtils] cannot establish connection with uri: ldaps://10.10.35.31

 

openLDAP logs show the vCenter establishing a tls connection and them promptly losing the connection.

With openssl s_client, I can connect to the port with the certificates I provide, but I can't find anything else that would be useful. I can also connect on LDAP:// as well, but I want to establish a TLS connection. Is there a particular way that the certificates should be made? I just want to get the LDAPS to work.


login failed due to invalid credentials for one or more vcenter server system

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Our customer cannot login on vcenter server using AD account. we already validated the time synchronization but still can't login the users.

Swap file - urgent

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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 without trying to gain access to the original swap file location?

 

thank you!!!

v7u1 update failed loop

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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 screenshots: 1) prechecks succeed, 2) SSO Admin password requested, 3) exception in precheck], and can't escape.

 

Even after restarting the VCSA, it stays stuck on the exception page; I can't figure out how to end this insanity!

 

The log I found (attached) seems to indicate that, although the prechecks pass correctly, the update engine can't find some files that should have been staged.

 

Help! I don't have any support options on this (it's a lab after all), and if I can avoid having to rebuild from backup (yes, I have both the pre-upgrade backup as well as the automated backups that have been running every day since deployment), it would be appreciated.

VCSA 6.7 - SNMP v3 configuration

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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 command inside any path, have anyone succeeded while configuring this?

Viewing vcenter log

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Hi,

In the documents of vsphere 6.5 [1], I see

 

  1. Navigate to the location of the log browser manifest file.

    The default location is: /usr/lib/vmware-vsphere-client/plugin-packages/logbrwoser

  2. Rename the file plugin-package.xml.unused to plugin-package.xml, and save it.

 

However, I don't see such thing. Please see below:

 

root@10 [ /usr/lib/vmware-vsphere-client/plugin-packages ]# ls

cis-data-service-plugin  sr-upload     vcamarketing-plugin  vsphere-client-modules

license-client           sso-admin-ui  vco-plugin

opsmgmt-client           telemetry     vsphere-client

 

 

Any idea about that?

 

 

 

[1] Enable the Log Browser Plug-In on the vCenter Server Appliance

Messing up sendmail

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Hi

It seems that I did something wrong with the sendmail configuration files via the vcenter bash. I added

define(`SMART_HOST', `our_smtp_address')dnl

to /etc/mail/sendmail.mc and then ran

 

# m4 sendmail.mc > sendmail.cf

# service sendmail restart

 

But the service log shows this error

 

-- Unit sendmail.service has begun starting up.

Nov 02 13:22:52 10.1.1.2 sendmail[56368]: [91B blob data]

Nov 02 13:22:52 10.1.1.2 sendmail[56368]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 1: invalid argument to V line: "ERSIO

Nov 02 13:22:52 10.1.1.2 sendmail[56368]: 554 5.0.0 No local mailer defined

Nov 02 13:22:52 10.1.1.2 sendmail[56368]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): No local mailer defined

Nov 02 13:22:52 10.1.1.2 sendmail[56368]: 554 5.0.0 QueueDirectory (Q) option must be set

Nov 02 13:22:52 10.1.1.2 sendmail[56368]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): QueueDirectory (Q) option must be set

Nov 02 13:22:52 10.1.1.2 systemd[1]: sendmail.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=78

Nov 02 13:22:52 10.1.1.2 systemd[1]: Failed to start Sendmail Mail Transport Agent.

-- Subject: Unit sendmail.service has failed

 

 

 

The content of files are

 

root@10 [ /etc/mail ]# cat sendmail.mc

divert(-1)

divert(0)dnl

VERSIONID(`$Id: generic-linux.mc,v 8.2 2013-11-22 20:51:08 ca Exp $')

OSTYPE(linux)dnl

DOMAIN(generic)dnl

MAILER(local)dnl

MAILER(smtp)dnl

define(`SMART_HOST', `our_smtp_address')dnl

 

root@10 [ /etc/mail ]# cat sendmail.cf

VERSIONID($Id: generic-linux.mc,v 8.2 2013-11-22 20:51:08 ca Exp $)

OSTYPE(linux)DOMAIN(generic)MAILER(local)MAILER(smtp)

Multiple Vcenter Servers.

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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 the SSO server. I get an invalid credentials error if I try to use AD on the second server.

 

I have verified that the AD shows as connected on the second box and that all the same permissions are there.

 

A bit of background I set up the first box and did the AD join before I setup the second server.

 

How do I get the second box to recognize the AD logins?






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