Author: Piotr Tarnawski

Welcome to my blog! My name is Piotr Tarnawski and I am an experienced System Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology industry. Skilled in Linux, Windows, Virtualization (VMware), DNS, and Active Directory. I work for Salesforce however content is my own and does not represent Salesforce as a company Contact: Twitter @AngrySysOps Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AngrySysOps Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/AngryAdmin
Posted in ESXi vCenter

VMware vCenter Server 7.0 Update 2c, VMware ESXi 7.0 Update 2c – overview.

Discontinuation of Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 1.2 in a future major vSphere release: VMware intends in a future major vSphere release to discontinue support of TPM…

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Posted in Aria

Data Retriever is not initialized yet. Please wait. – How to replace expired internal certificate in vRealize Operations Manager

You may not know but vROps has an internal certificate that may expire. If you won’t catch it on time, you will be in the…

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Posted in Aria

vROps 8.5 Hot Fix! Fixing EP Ops adapter, SNMP Trap Plugin, memory heap size and many more!

After upgrading my vRealize Operations Manager to 8.5 I received an alert stating that: In Redescribe section I saw that EP Ops Adapter has status…

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Posted in Aria

Upgrade vRealize Operations 8.x to newest 8.5 version

It is time to upgrade vROps to the newest version. You can perform in-place upgrade from any 8.x version. I strongly recommend to run per-upgrade…

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Posted in Security Advisory

Security Advisory VMSA-2021-0018

Yesterday VMware released  IMPORTANT Security Advisory for vRealize Operations Manager, Please see below information on VMSA-2021-0018, Important Notes, and Security Patch PAK to address this Security Advisory: Security Advisory VMSA-2021-0018 – VMware vRealize Operations…

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Posted in VxRail

VxRail: bmc: firmware test timeout. check platform service. How to check PTAgent status.

Before VxRail upgrade I run VxVerify tool and one of the errors was: bmc: firmware test timeout. check platform service. You can read all about…

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Posted in SRM

Migrating from SRM 8.3 Windows to SRM 8.4 Virtual Appliance

It is time to leave Windows machines and change your SRM to Virtual Appliance. SRM 8.4 runs on Photon OS and it is deployed as…

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Posted in SRM

SRDF SRA 9.2.0.1 Hot Fix installation with SRM appliance.

After successful installation of SRM appliance (you can read about it here) it is time now to install and configure SRDF SRA. There are few…

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Posted in ESXi

Cannot copy files to host data.host. Check the management service status, network connectivity with vCenter and disk space on the host.

Oh boy, oh boy, what a bumpy ride I had with upgrading my vSphere environment form 6.5 version to 7.0.2. First I had issue with…

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Posted in PowerShell

PowerCLI: Enable/Disable SSH and Lockdown Mode

Today I will show you quick and easy way to enable and disable SSH and Lockdown mode for all hosts in the cluster. Let’s start…

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