vCenter Server 7.x services: vmware-vmon VMware Service Lifecycle Manager vmonapi VMware Service Lifecycle Manager API vmafdd VMware Authentication Framework vmdird VMware Directory Service vmcad VMware Certificate Service lookupsvc VMware Lookup Service vmware-sca VMware Service Control Agent vmware-stsd VMware Security Token Service vmware-rhttpproxy VMware HTTP Reverse Proxy vmware-envoy VMware Envoy Proxy vmware-netdumper VMware vSphere ESXi Dump…
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VMware vCenter Server 7.0 Update 3a
It has been not even a month since VMware released vSphere 7 Update 3, and not everyone including me implemented that update, yet today (23/10/2021) VMware announced he release of vSphere 7 Update 3a (7 U3a). New update focus on workloads with GPU support in VMware Tanzu® Kubernetes GridTM (TKG) cluster, allowing newly created VMs to…
Read moreHow I lost and recovered my vCenter server
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…
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 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 moreCannot 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 prolong boot on ESXi hosts, I wrote about this in this article providing solution, now after following workaround I upgraded to 7GA (generic version, first release) and wanted to run…
Read moreAfter 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 never return to vCenter. Status was Disconnected. I had to manually click on Connection -> connect. The booting process stuck on vmw_vaaip_symm loaded successfully On the small cluster it was…
Read moreVMware 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 server pages, then your Load balancer process is not handling the Server keep-alive in the HTTP header. Have a look at NSX-T Edge syslog -> /var/log/syslog This issue is resolved…
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…
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