You may experience issues where cluster task specially like putting the host in maintenance mode, deleting a cluster etc will fail with below error: 2020-12-21T12:43:56.848-08:00 info vpxd[10034] [Originator@6876 sub=MoHost opID=opId-18b14-105289-d9] WCP exitMaintenanceMode vAPI returns error: Error: –> com.vmware.vapi.std.errors.unauthenticated –> Messages: –> vapi.security.authentication.invalid<Unable to authenticate user> –> 2020-12-21T12:43:56.851-08:00 error vpxd[10034] [Originator@6876 sub=MoHost opID=opId-18b14-105289-d9] [Delete] Failed to […]
Tag: vsphere 7.0
VCSA “wcp” service keeps crashing
“wcp” service crashes due to which the ESXi host can not be put out of maintenance mode (other symptoms can also occurs however I have never come across those) The VCSA “wcp” service keeps crashing while starting due to an invalid entry in the wcp config file Error executing start on service wcp. Details { […]
Important ESXi Networking Commands
To get the available virtual switches information on ESXi host :- # esxcfg-vswitch -l [root] esxcfg-vswitch -lSwitch Name Num Ports Used Ports Configured Ports MTU UplinksvSwitch0 6656 4 128 9000 vmnic3 PortGroup Name VLAN ID Used Ports UplinksVM Network 0 0 vmnic3Management Network 4095 1 vmnic3 DVS Name Num Ports Used Ports Configured Ports MTU […]
What’s new in vSphere 7.0
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 :- […]