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vSAN Evacuation pre-check for Node, Diskgroup OR Disk

Written by Jaylaxmi Singh September 3, 2020February 16, 2021

You can do a precheck for a vSAN Host, disk or diskgroup evacuation with with evacuate all data, ensure accessibility or no action options. vSAN ESXi host Evacuation Pre-check To fetch the UUID of the vSAN cluster hosts :-[root@esxi-1:~] cmmds-tool find -t HOSTNAME owner=5bc74ddf-6e77-df6b-1442-005056016fc3(Health: Healthy) uuid=5bc74ddf-6e77-df6b-1442-005056016fc3 type=HOSTNAME rev=0 minHostVer=0 [content = (“esxi-2.labs.org”)], errorStr=(null)owner=5bc74de0-dd5b-9199-e5ea-005056016fbb(Health: Healthy) uuid=5bc74de0-dd5b-9199-e5ea-005056016fbb […]

Networking, VMware

vDS Out of Sync

Written by Ashish Singh June 9, 2020July 1, 2022 2 Comments

This blog is focused on rectifying the vDS and making it in sync state. First, please you are not hitting a known BUG in vDS 6.6, check VMware Release Notes. You might see below warning in summary page of vDS The vSphere Distributed Switch configuration on some hosts differed from that of the vCenter Server […]

vPostgres Database useful commands

Written by Jaylaxmi Singh June 7, 2020June 7, 2020 2 Comments

Command to connect vPostgres : /opt/vmware/vpostgres/current/bin/psql -d VCDB -U postgres We can also connect with the vPostgres database using pgAdmin tool : vPostgres configuration related files :- /storage/db/vpostgres/pg_hba.conf – This config file stores the information about the users that can connect to the database. It also stores the info about the information about from where […]

Linux, Unix, VMware

vCenter Appliance Networking Commands

Written by Jaylaxmi Singh June 5, 2020July 1, 2022 1 Comment

Tool to check and modify the vCenter Appliance Network related configurations: # /opt/vmware/share/vami/vami_config_net Network eth0 configuration file : # /etc/systemd/network/10-eth0.network Command to list all open ports on PSC and vCenter Appliance: – # iptables -L port_filter -n –line-numbers From the above Iptables o/p, identify specific port is being used for which service : # iptables […]

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What’s new in vSphere 7.0

Written by Jaylaxmi Singh May 1, 2020June 8, 2020

Hurray! vSphere 7.0 is out. It’s a major release which has lots of new and additional features like LifeCycle Manager service, improved DRS, Assignable Hardware and more security with ADFS (Active Directory Federation services). For more info on 7.0 refer below links :-Features :- https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2020/03/vsphere-7-features.html Release notes :- https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/rn/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-70-release-notes.html Upgrade Best practices for 7.0 :- […]

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