My network team is doing tech refresh and they decided that along with hardware change, they want to change IP range. Hence I was tasked to perform re-IP of vCenter. You can read how to change IP of VCSA here : https://angrysysops.com/2021/03/25/vsphere-7-how-to-change-the-fqdn-and-ip-pnid-address-of-vcenter-server-appliance/. I had to consider how to access my VCSA once I put it…
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How to remove stale (orphaned) snapshots in the datastore on which the virtual machine resides
One of my servers went into a hung state. We tried to reboot it but the reboot filed and the task eventually timeout. The same server was hung a few days back, storage team deleted the backup job, to kill the daily NetBackup snaps. The VM came up fine but went into the hung state…
Read moreVMware vCenter Server 7.0 Update 3 released!
I am happy to announce that on October 5th VMware released Update 3.You can read and watch everything you need to know about this update on my blog and Youtube channel. Download Filename VMware-vCenter-Server-Appliance-7.0.3.00000-18700403-patch-FP.iso Build 18700403 Download Size 7259.1 MB md5sum 56947bc1a591849e55165b7fecebdf85 sha256checksum 54f30ff9fda3dc0cf7f4ff3a1efef45c37152f8ff7623a4f222dbe1d89411c08 The update is applicable from VAMI: Login to VAMI. Go to UPDATE…
Read moreHow to add domain search to DNS settings in vCenter Server Appliance 7.x (NOT via VAMI)
Today I discovered that I had issue with DNS in my VCSA. I could not resolve servers without suffix. I decided to check resolv.conf file and I notice there was no Search Domain present. In VAMI there is an option to change your DNS settings, however there is no option to add Search Domain. The…
Read moreHow to renew certificates for vCenter (6.x)
If you have not upgraded yet to vSphere 7 and your vCenter certificate is about to expire or already expired, here is an runlist how to renew certificate for vCenter: SSH to vCenter with root user and root password Run tool to prepare CSR file. Tool is located: /usr/lib/vmware-vmca/bin/certificate-manager Chose option 1 and press ENTER Enter…
Read moreVMware 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 1.2 and associated features such as TPM 1.2 with TXT. To get full use of vSphere features, you can use TPM 2.0 instead of TPM 1.2. Support for TPM 1.2…
Read morevCenter 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 the pod service repeatedly attempts to start but is not able to complete the process. One known reason for this is that the service is unable to validate the certificate…
Read moreHow to connect vCenter with external KMS
NOTE: For example here I choose Vault Enterprise KMIP as a default Key Provider for VM encryption, vSAN encryption and Host Attestation Prerequisites: Create a KMIP client in vault (only a vCenter server is client) Login to Vault Enterprise Navigate to Secret → KMIP → vmware Select “Create Role”. Use vCenter server name as role name and…
Read moreVAMI update failed due to /storage/log partition full
Once I tried to update vCenter 6.5 to remediate Security Advisory VMSA-2021-0010 I spotted that health status shows Warning and the cause for it was /storage/log partition was showing that is low on space. In older version like vCenter 6.0 there was an issue with SSO log files were not compressed, but this issuse should…
Read moreHow to resolve a vSphere TPM error on VxRAIL
A TPM (Trusted Platform Module) is a computer chip/microcontroller that can securely store artifacts used to authenticate the platform and since version 6.7 vSphere support TPM 2.0. In my case I had an message: TPM 2.0 device detected but a connection cannot be established. NOTE: Before you start, place the host into Maintenance Mode in vCenter…
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