VMware vCenter Converter Standalone verbose logging
There are three components to vCenter Converter - The Server, Agent and the WorkerIn order to enable verbose logging on each of the components, backup and edit the below files at:...
View ArticleHAProxy and VMware View
HAProxy is an open source load balancer. More info here: http://www.haproxy.org. HAProxy can load balance HTTP/HTTPS and supports session persistence.The View Setup:Internal Network Subnet:...
View ArticlePowerCLI script to query all windows VM's and check if the vShield Endpoint...
To check if the vShield endpoint driver is installed in Windows we can use the following command, "sc query type= driver | find "vsepflt" "To automate the above script across all Windows VMs in the...
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Configure NTP for ESXi
When deploying a virtual infrastructure it is very important to configure a time server. Lately, most VMware solutions depend on accurate time. For the labs that i deploy, i generally configure the...
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Failed to connect to server(code:1006)
I have been playing with VMware Integrated Openstack for the last couple of months. After installation I have been able to launch a couple of instances, create networks, create routers, etc. Everything...
View ArticleVMware Integrated Openstack plugin is not visible in the vSphere Client after...
The /var/log/oms/oms.log shows the following error:[2015-03-26T02:07:22.358+0000] INFO localhost-startStop-1| com.vmware.aurora.vc.vcservice.VcService: Registering extension vService at:...
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Messing around with instances in VMware Integrated Openstack
Setting up Openstack with VMware Integrated Openstack(VIO) and VMware NSXv is a breeze as compared to installing and configuring each Openstack component manually. I have been messing around with VIO...
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vRealize Automation Infrastructure tab reports HTTP 503 error
I had setup vRealize Automation sometime back in a lab environment and this had been running fine for a few weeks.I started seeing the HTTP 503 error without much changes to the environment.From the...
View ArticleUninstall and cleanup VMware Integrated Openstack
Ran into a known bug and the solution was to completely uninstall and redeploy VMware Integrated Openstack. So how exactly do you uninstall and clean up a VMware Integrated Openstack install?Delete all...
View ArticleConverting a reserved desktop to a gold pattern fails with an unknown agent...
Was setting up VMware Horizon Daas for the first time and clearly it looks like I missed a configuration step. The desktop was prepared, agents installed, firewall disabled, local administrator...
View ArticleRecover VIO database cluster
My VIO lab broke after a power failure. I powered on and brought back the vsphere infrastructure, Openstack Manager and the VIO VM's, however I was unable to login to Openstack. So I decided to do a...
View ArticleRestrict AD access to the vSphere Management Assistant
When vMA is added to active directory, be default, all users will be able to login to the appliance.In order to restrict the login to certain users or groups, we need to manually edit the Likewise...
View ArticleView Composer and vCenter in different domains
Recently, a hosting company wanted to know if their customers can have VMware View running on hosted vCenter/ESXi hosts. The hosted vCenter Server was a shared resource and had many clusters that were...
View ArticleEnabling SSH access on a newly deployed vRealize Operations 6.1
In order to enable SSH access you will have to first enable root accessTo enable root access, you need to secure the vRealize Operations Manager Console.More information here:...
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How is percentage entitled resource delivered calculated in vSphere DRS?
In the DRS Resource Distribution Chart, CPU utilization is displayed on a per virtual machine basis, grouped by host. The chart shows information for each virtual machine as a colored box, which...
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Manually removing a user entitlement from the Adam database in VMware View
Came across an interesting issue where we were unable to remove user entitlements from the VMware View connection server. Was able to resolve the issue by manually removing the user from the adam...
View ArticleOpenstack CLI via the Openstack Management Server
In order to run openstack commands from the Openstack Management Server Appliance:1. SSH and login to the Openstack Management Server as the user viouser.2. SSH to the controller VM using the command:...
View ArticleReverting VLAN changes on a dvSwitch portgroup
I recently lost access to few of my ESXi hosts after using the incorrect VLAN on the dvSwitch portgroup. Was unable to find any command to change the VLAN of a dvSwitch portgroup from the command...
View ArticleError while adding vCenter in AppVolumes 3.0
Recently hit an error where AppVolumes did not register my lab vcenter successfully.My lab vcenter is signed by an internal CA. From the log /var/log/av-manager/production.log, [2016-05-02 05:30:56...
View ArticleAppVolumes Capture failed
Ran into the below error when trying to capture notepad++ using AppCapture.exe17:19:07 ERROR: provisioning-successA event not signaled after 30 secs17:19:07 ERROR : wait for provisioning-successA event...
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