Author: Piotr Tarnawski
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
After upgrading to ESXI 7.0 update 2 , the reboot process is Extremely slow boot
On one of my clusters (with over 30 hosts) it took literally six and half hours for one host to get back online. Furthermore they…
SRM 8.4 Appliance – clean installation and configuration
Today I will show you how to perform clean installation and configuration of Site Recovery Manager 8.4. The process of this is pretty straight forward….
VMware NSX-T Data Center 3.x – Load Balancer on a NSX-T environment stop working
If you came across the issue with accessing the backend servers via the Load Balance or it is taking several seconds to display the backend…
vCenter Server 7.0.x Appliance /storage/log partition error. Partition full due to excessive pod-startup.log files
Lately I notice that the vmware-pod service will not start. Furthermore one can see /var/log/vmware/pod contains thousands of pod-startup.log.###### files. The /var/log/vmware/pod/pod-console.log contains the following errors: This issue occurs when…
SRM appliance, appliance no networking detected.
UPDATE for SRM 8.X and 9.X! *********************************************************************************************************** As the useful tool /opt/vmware/share/vami/vami_config_net is no longer available in these versions, you can use the following command…
