Scenario: I attempted to migrate a vsphere 6.0 U3 environment to 6.7 U3. This included a VCenter (Win 2008), External PSC (Win 2008) and external MS SQL 2008 (Win 2008) to the VCSA with external PSC appliances. Issue During the PSC imigration the following error appeared – after the new appliance was deployed and old PSC Read More…
Category: Windows
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…
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…
File System Specific Implementation of LookupAndOpen[file] Failed
Issue: A Veeam Proxy VM halted during a back up run and powering back on was unsuccessful Troubleshooting When trying to restart I was presented with the following error and the VM failed to start File system specific implementation of LookupAndOpen[file] failed Solution Upon further investigation the Veeam Proxy had a Hot-Added disk still attached. I Read More…
Syncing Active Directory Time with NTP Server
Problem The Domain Controllers (Windows 2016) were around ~20 seconds out of sync. I wanted to sync it with uk.pool.ntp.org Solution 1) Find the PDC On a host on the domain run the following command: NETDOM QUERY FSMO 2) Log into the PDC server (normally primary DC) On a command line with elevated permissions: w32tm Read More…
Install Zabbix Agent on Windows
In this post I will be deployig Zabbix Agent (3.4.6) onto a Windows 2012 R2 system 1. Download the Zabbix agent on the target machine. The .zip file can be downloaded directly from the Zabbix website. 2. Unzip the download to c:\Zabbix 3. Copy C:\Zabbix\confzabbix_agentd.win.conf to c:\Zabbix\zabbix_agentd.conf 4. Edit zabbix_agentd.conf Server=127.0.0.1,{Zabbix_Monitoring_server} Hostname={your_server_name} 4. Install Read More…
Check Uptime on Windows Server
To find the uptime on a windows server Open a command prompt Start -> run -> Cmd Then type: net statistics server Find Statistics since line: This tells you when the server was last rebooted.
SSL VPN-Plus Client Fails to Connect
After upgrading from vShield Edge 5.5.4 -> NSX Edge 6.2.4 -> then converting to Advanced Gateway in a vCloud Director (8.20) environment all of my SSL VPN connections failed to establish. The following appeared: "Error: Connection to gateway failed. Please contact your administrator for SSL VPN-Plus gateway settings." Looking at the version it appeared I Read More…
vCenter Service Failed to Restart After Windows Updates
My vCenter ( 5.5 u2) currently resides on a Windows 2008 R2 virtual machine. The OS required some Windows updates which were successfully installed and rebooted. Upon the server restart, the vCenter service failed to start. In the Event Viewer I could see the following error: The description for Event ID 1000 from source VMware Read More…
IMAP Mail Not Received Unless Toggle Work Offline in Outlook 2013
Scenario: I recently started using Outlook 2013 to connect to my IMAP account. No mail was received unless I clicked Work Offline then Work Online. When I pressed Send/Receive All Folders nothing happened although it looks like it was just looping around synchronising. I tried creating a new profile, reparing Outlook 2013 and Read More…
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