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vdcrepadmin to find the replication status and design the Platform Services...
After attending the VMworld PSC session , I was thinking about to test the VDCREPADMIN tool which helps to find the replication status and to re-desgin the PSC. Currently we have three PSCs which...
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Steps to upgrade the vCSA (PSC\VC ) 6.0 to 6.5.
Read the KB 2147548 \ KB 2147686 before upgrading the vshpere environment for the Compatibility considerations and also for the best practices to make sure all the products which is connected to the...
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Useful links about Windows Failover Clustering.
Free Ebook http://blogs.technet.com/b/askcore/archive/tags/failover+cluster/default.aspx Understanding the Cluster Debug Log in 2008...
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Useful information and links about Microsoft Remote Procedure Call (RPC)
The diagram below shows the RPC workflow starting with the registration of the server application with the RPC Endpoint Mapper (EPM) in step 1 to the passing of data from the RPC client to the client...
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Primary\Secondary DNS IP Fail-Over bug in VMware vCenter Server Appliance 6.0...
We have the PRD setup with external PSC and VC which is configured with the Primary DNS and Secondary DNS . Due to the hardware issue on our primary DNS server , it went down and we couldn’t connect...
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vSphere client and Powercli fails to connect vCenter after TLSv1.0 disabled.
As per the KB 2148819 , TLSv1.0 has been disabled from the VC and issue started to connect the VC from the desktop client and also using the powercli . Error from the Desktop client: Error from the...
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Supermicro bug on running VMs in Nested method.
One of our internal cloud environment which is running ESXi hosts under SuperMicro ( SYS-1027GR ) got failed with the PSOD referencing Fatal (unrecoverable) MCE on one of physical CPU .It happened...
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Trend Micro Deep Security ( Event Based Tasks to activate the VMs)
Pls check my other blogs on DSM 9.5 and 9.6 and here we can see the steps to activate the VMs when it moved using vMotion to one host to another which will help when we want to activate the agentless...
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Powercli script to validate the basic vSphere Hardening
Last month I was working in a security hardening project and implemented as per the standard recommended by the VMware. We have to show to our internal security team that all the vsphere environment...
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VMware support log size issue and workaround (VCSA ).
In our environment we have around 12 VCSA 6.0 U2 ( vCenter Appliance) in different region with various sizes , most of our environment will be running with around 20-25 ESXi hosts in two or three...
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Mind-Map for dvSwitch.
My flight got delayed after the VMworld and have to spend few hours in the airport so just to make something interesting made this Mind-map for dvSwitch . Hope it will be helpful for the certificate...
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Bug in NFS mount while using SRM
We were configuring the SRM with Tintri storage and while configuring the Array pairing in storage replication , SRM was failed to mount the Tintri datastore. So as per Tintri we need to create the...
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Options to check and alert the vcenter certificate expiration
Last week one of our vCenter went down because of the machine certificate got expired and it took some time to find out the issue so I thought it will be helpful to show the options to verify the...
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VCSA 6.5 upgrade\Installation issues and fixes
Recently I have started upgrading the VC6.0 U3 ( VCSA ) to 6.5 U1 and encountered few issues so same like by previous blogs on VC6.0 issues , planned to do it for VC6.5 also and find the old blogs...
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Looking back on 2017
Just want to register my memory on 2017 , It has been wonderful journey with lot of happiness and also some bad memories . So after doing almost six years of consultant job , I joined as the full time...
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Useful links about Meltdown and Spectre
Everyone is working on to fix the Meltdown and Spectre so just thought of sharing few links which will help to handle the issue efficiently . HP Today HP has released update for System ROM and we can...
View ArticleTrend Deep Security agentless windows 2016 protection
Even-though the 9.6 Service pack 1 was supporting the agentless protection which was tested in our lab, it was not officially supported by Trend and from the latest version Deep Security 9.1 Update...
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Trend Deep Security – Customizing the alert configuration.
In Trend DSM, if we want to send the alert email notification , we have to go to settings – alert and select what type of notification we want to receive but by default all the alerts are enabled and...
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Trend Deep security Protection on AWS – Part 1
Enable agility with security built for Amazon EC2. Trend Micro’s instance-based protection, deep API integration and AWS CloudFormation templates help you automate security and accelerate compliance....
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Adding the AWS Account in to the Trend DSM – Part 2
Add your AWS account to Deep Security. This imports all your Amazon EC2 instances into Deep Security Manager. Your EC2 instances appear on the left under Computers > your_AWS_account >...
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