In Unix/Linux everything is organized in the form of files, whether it’s devices, directories, files, etc. A file is a smallest unit in which the information is stored. Directories and their usage – / The file system root. /root The home directory of the root user. The root user’s home directory is located outside […]
Author: Jaylaxmi Singh
Disable vSAN Modules during ESXi boot process
Sometimes the ESXi host may stuck for very long time while loading vSAN while ESXi reboot. To isolate the issue from vSAN, you may need to boot the host without vSAN. Note: This may not be a feasible option if the data still exists on the host and the objects do not have sufficient raid […]
VAMI/Appliance management page unable to cleanup old backup tasks even though Retention policy is set
First of all take proper snapshot of the vCenter before making any changes. Check the content of file “/storage/applmgmt/backup_restore/backup_schedule.json” and verify the value of parameter “max_count”. It should be equal to the “number of backups to retain” in VAMI page. If the value is anything other than the retention policy setting or if the parameter […]
vPostgres service fails to start on vCenter Appliance with FATAL error “bogus data in lock file postmaster.pid” on VCSA
This article helps to get the vPostgres service up if the service is failing to start with FATAL error “bogus data in lock file postmaster.pid” # service-control –start vmware-vpostgres Perform start operation. vmon_profile=None, svc_names=[‘vmware-vpostgres’], include_coreossvcs=False, include_leafossvcs=False 2019-11-06T21:38:14.283Z Service vmware-vpostgres state STOPPED Error executing start on service vmware-vpostgres. Details { “resolution”: null, “detail”: [ […]
vpxd service crashes with ODBC error “ERROR: integer out of range” on vCenter 6.5
vpxd service may crash due to out of range integer value for surr_key after long usage vpxd log will show error message like below :-[Vdb::IsRecoverableErrorCode] Unable to recover from HY000:1102020-06-12T19:46:47.037Z error vpxd[7FD1CE34C700] [Originator@6876 sub=Default opID=HostSync-host-39197-3811cb39] [VdbStatement] SQLError was thrown: “ODBC error: (22003) – ERROR: integer out of range;–> Error while executing the query” is returned […]
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