Author: Jordansphere

I currently work for an ISP on the South coast as a Senior Engineer. I mainly spend my time maintaining the Cloud. CCNA, VCP4/5, VCP-Cloud
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 User “postgres” Has No Password Assigned

Problem When trying to remotely connect to Postgres 10.10 install for the first time I got and authentication error via pgadmin From the log files (/var/lib/pgsql/10/data/log/postgresql-Wed.log) 2019-09-25 14:05:38.970 BST [22665] FATAL:  password authentication failed for user "postgres" 2019-09-25 14:05:38.970 BST [22665] DETAIL:  User "postgres" has no password assigned.         Connection matched pg_hba.conf Read More…

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Debug NSX Edge Traffic

OS: NSX Edge: 6.4.x   Show routing table show ip route   Show Interfaces show int   Display debug information on a specific interface debug packet display interface {int_name} eg debug packet display interface vNic_2   Display debug information on specific interface and remote host debug packet display interface {int_name} host_{IP Address}  eg debug packet display Read More…

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Script to Customize CentOS 7 Install in a VMware Environment

#!/bin/bash echo "#######################################################################"; echo "This script will Update the OS, install useful tools and configure NTP"; echo "#######################################################################"; #Update OS yum update -y #install useful tools yum install telnet -y yum install bind-utils -y # install vmware tools yum install -y open-vm-tools systemctl enable vmtoolsd.service systemctl status vmtoolsd.service # Disable selinux /usr/bin/sed -i 's/^SELINUX=.*/SELINUX=disabled/g' /etc/selinux/config Read More…

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Route Commands on ESXi, VCSA, Linux & Windows

Sample route commands    Windows Show routing table route print Add a persistent route ROUTE -p ADD 10.10.129.0 MASK 255.255.255.0 10.5.72.254   ESXi Show routing table esxcfg-route -l  Show routing table for specific stack esxcfg-route -l -N (stack name) Add route esxcli network ip route ipv4 add –gateway 10.5.72.254 –network 10.10.129.0/24   VCSA Show routing Read More…

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Cross vCenter-vMotion Fails

Scenario: Site A (source) – vCenter 6.0 U3 – Vmks in vmotion TCP/IP Stack Site B (destination) – VCSA 6.7 U2 – Vmks in vmotion TCP/IP Stack Error Message on destination host: From vpxa.logs on destination host 2019-08-15T12:40:47.088Z cpu57:2346322)WARNING: Migrate: 6189: 1565872539754355 D: Migration considered a failure by the VMX.  It is most likely a timeout, Read More…

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VCSA Backups Fail

Issue Using FTPS to backup the VCSA 6.7 U2 configuration I got the following error: Error: Structure com.vmware.appliance.recovery.backup.job.details.info has a union with a field not required for this case = end_time Resolution Investigating the issue it appears the FTP login was a success and the directories were created successfully but when the process tried to Read More…