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Re: Adding ESXi Hosts Via Natted IP and vCenter 6.5

cliffcahill — Tue, 27 Mar 2018 20:11:36 GMT

Fix was to create a VMK on vSwitch. Use the ESXi host natted ip address as the VMK interface address. No vlan is required.

Hope this help.

Re: host scans fail

cliffcahill — Thu, 21 Dec 2017 16:29:54 GMT

VMware Update manager? - I would start with ensuring DNS (nslookup) is working on both VC and VUM

Re: 503 Service Unavailable (Failed to connect to endpoint: [N7Vmacore4Http16LocalServiceSpecE:0x7f238a6b5f60] _serverNamespace = /vsphere-client _isRedirect = false _port = 9090)

cliffcahill — Thu, 21 Dec 2017 14:25:26 GMT

Assuming it is an Appliance-based vCenter SSH to the VM and Type Date

Re: 503 Service Unavailable (Failed to connect to endpoint: [N7Vmacore4Http16LocalServiceSpecE:0x7f238a6b5f60] _serverNamespace = /vsphere-client _isRedirect = false _port = 9090)

cliffcahill — Wed, 20 Dec 2017 14:20:09 GMT

Can you confirm NTP/Time is the same on Primary PSC and vCenter.

Re: In place upgrade

cliffcahill — Wed, 04 Oct 2017 17:05:43 GMT

Upgrading to vCenter Server 6.0 best practices (2109772) | VMware KB

Snapshot VMs Etc before upgrade

Mount vCenter ISO to VMs being upgrade - The Wizard is very intuitive.

Order Should be

SSO/PSC first
vCenter
Host

Remove Snapshots

Best of luck

Re: Disconnected from host. Reason: License expired vcenter 6.5

cliffcahill — Wed, 04 Oct 2017 16:59:50 GMT

Hope this Helps

Re: Migrate Windows based VMware vCenter 6.5 Windows to VCSA 6.5

cliffcahill — Wed, 04 Oct 2017 16:53:32 GMT

Not at this time unfortunately

Re: In place upgrade

cliffcahill — Wed, 04 Oct 2017 16:46:31 GMT

I can completed in the past - Though I did have an external SQL Server to house the Database.

See attached link with show the supported OS for vCenter

Supported host operating systems for VMware vCenter Server installation (including vCenter Update Manager and vRealize O…

Re: VUM Requirements?

cliffcahill — Mon, 25 Sep 2017 15:49:40 GMT

Check out the VMware Product Interoperability Matrices - All supported versions are listed.

Re: VCenter PSC how it's work ?

cliffcahill — Mon, 25 Sep 2017 11:46:46 GMT

Some details that might help/

https://cliffcahill.com/2016/11/13/repointing-vcenter-psc-after-psc-node-failure/

Re: Power SHell scriptto document the ESXI hosts ?

cliffcahill — Wed, 13 Sep 2017 09:21:59 GMT

Try http://www.virtu-al.net/vcheck-pluginsheaders/vcheck/

Re: vSphere 6.0U3 EAM Error

cliffcahill — Thu, 07 Sep 2017 10:52:01 GMT

I have seen similar before - Issue was Splunk was installed on the VM and was using the same port for forwarding etc.

Re: Adding ESXi Hosts Via Natted IP and vCenter 6.5

cliffcahill — Thu, 13 Jul 2017 13:55:43 GMT

Hi Aishr

thank you for replying - I'm aware it's not supported it a temporary connection in order to use VC to run some PowerCli over the temporarily connected hosts. I Managed to fix the issue afterward.

I had to create a new VMK with the natted IPaddress as the interface IP ie 10.12..X. Xand stability improved.

"Failed to bind heartbeat socket for host address 10.12.X.X: Cannot assign requested address" error were eliminated

Adding ESXi Hosts Via Natted IP and vCenter 6.5

cliffcahill — Mon, 10 Jul 2017 19:14:26 GMT

Hey,

I'm having an issue at the moment adding ESXI hosts Via their Natted IP address to vCenter VCSA 6.5.

Previously I have successfully used this KB successfully Using NAT between the vCenter Server system and ESXi/ESX hosts (1010652) | VMware KB for all previous version of vCenter.

The Server IP address in the vpxa.cfg file is correct and port 902 is open and telnet works

I have increased the config.vpxd.heartbeat.notRespondingTimeout via this KB

https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1005757

Here is a tail of the vxpa agent log

2017-07-10T19:00:41.341Z verbose vpxa[8ED0B70] [Originator@6876 sub=VpxaHalCnxHostagent opID=WFU-376885b1] Received WaitForUpdatesDone callback

2017-07-10T19:00:41.341Z verbose vpxa[8ED0B70] [Originator@6876 sub=VpxaHalCnxHostagent opID=WFU-376885b1] Applying updates from 479 to 480 (at 479)

2017-07-10T19:00:41.341Z verbose vpxa[8ED0B70] [Originator@6876 sub=VpxaHalCnxHostagent opID=WFU-376885b1] Starting next WaitForUpdates() call to hostd

2017-07-10T19:00:41.341Z verbose vpxa[8ED0B70] [Originator@6876 sub=VpxaHalCnxHostagent opID=WFU-376885b1] Completed WaitForUpdatesDone callback

2017-07-10T19:00:41.422Z verbose vpxa[8F54B70] [Originator@6876 sub=VpxaHalCnxHostagent opID=WFU-2f2143e2] Received WaitForUpdatesDone callback

2017-07-10T19:00:41.422Z verbose vpxa[8F54B70] [Originator@6876 sub=VpxaHalCnxHostagent opID=WFU-2f2143e2] Applying updates from 480 to 481 (at 480)

2017-07-10T19:00:41.422Z verbose vpxa[8F54B70] [Originator@6876 sub=VpxaHalCnxHostagent opID=WFU-2f2143e2] Starting next WaitForUpdates() call to hostd

2017-07-10T19:00:41.422Z verbose vpxa[8F54B70] [Originator@6876 sub=VpxaHalCnxHostagent opID=WFU-2f2143e2] Completed WaitForUpdatesDone callback

2017-07-10T19:00:42.268Z warning vpxa[8E8EB70] [Originator@6876 sub=Heartbeat opID=SWI-1c06dac8] Failed to bind heartbeat socket for host address 10.12.X.X: Cannot assign requested address

2017-07-10T19:00:45.946Z verbose vpxa[8F33B70] [Originator@6876 sub=VpxaHalCnxHostagent opID=WFU-30efc29a] Received WaitForUpdatesDone callback

2017-07-10T19:00:45.947Z verbose vpxa[8F33B70] [Originator@6876 sub=VpxaHalCnxHostagent opID=WFU-30efc29a] Applying updates from 481 to 482 (at 481)

2017-07-10T19:00:45.947Z verbose vpxa[8F33B70] [Originator@6876 sub=halservices opID=WFU-30efc29a] [VpxaHalServices] HostChanged Event Fired, properties changed [runtime.healthSystemRuntime]

2017-07-10T19:00:45.947Z verbose vpxa[8F33B70] [Originator@6876 sub=vpxaInvtHost opID=WFU-30efc29a] [HostChanged] Found update for tracked MoRef vim.HostSystem:ha-host

2017-07-10T19:00:45.947Z verbose vpxa[8F33B70] [Originator@6876 sub=VpxaHalCnxHostagent opID=WFU-30efc29a] Starting next WaitForUpdates() call to hostd

2017-07-10T19:00:45.947Z verbose vpxa[8F33B70] [Originator@6876 sub=VpxaHalCnxHostagent opID=WFU-30efc29a] Completed WaitForUpdatesDone callback

2017-07-10T19:00:46.270Z warning vpxa[8E8EB70] [Originator@6876 sub=Heartbeat opID=SWI-1c06dac8] Failed to bind heartbeat socket for host address 10.12.X.X: Cannot assign requested address

10.12.X.X is the host natted ip address.

Re: Enabling - Editing System TCP/IP NetStack - vMotion

cliffcahill — Mon, 10 Jul 2017 17:55:41 GMT

vMotion TCP/IP Stack- Created by Powercli

Thanks for the reply Mike - See attached thread I got there in the END yay !:P

Re: Updating from 6.0 U2 to Update 3

cliffcahill — Sat, 22 Apr 2017 13:56:57 GMT

One thing to note:

With the rollout of ESX6.0 Update 2 (build number 362759) VMware has bundled a new VIB for the VMware VSAN in the update.

Previously there was no VSAN VIB included the ESXi Image and if you trying to upgrade your host using esxcli with this command you will run into some difficulty

https://cliffcahill.com/2016/11/11/upgrading-hosts-beyond-esxi-6-0-u2/

Re: moving from a failed ESXi Server to another

cliffcahill — Wed, 19 Apr 2017 13:05:24 GMT

What do you mean by failed? - Do you have shared storage ?

Re: system logs on host are stored on non-persistent storage

cliffcahill — Wed, 22 Mar 2017 15:57:28 GMT

#Start Setting Paramters for Scripts
param(
  [Parameter(Mandatory=$true)]$vCenter,
   $VMhost ="*",
  $clusterName = '*'
)
#End Setting Paramters for Scripts
#Connect to vCenter
Write-Verbose "Connecting to vCenter"
$server = Connect-VIServer $vCenter -credential $(get-credential)

# Start Creating Scratch Partitions #######################################################################################

$currentLoc = Get-Location

$cluster = Get-Cluster $clusterName

ForEach ($VMhostname in ($cluster | Get-VMHost -name $VMhost)| sort)

{

#Get only the first part of the FQDN (only if you used the FQDN to add the ESX server to vCenter)

$hostname = $VMhostname.name.split(".")[0].ToUpper()

Write-Host -ForegroundColor green "Configuring $hostname"

$hostnamefolder = $VMhostname.name.split(".")[0]

$folder = ".locker_"+$hostnamefolder

#Local datastore

$datastore = get-datastore -name 'MGMT-DS-01' -Entity $VMhostname

Write-Verbose "Datastore is $($datastore.name)"

#Make the local datastore accessible as a PSdrive

$null = New-PSDrive -Name $hostname -Root \ -PSProvider VimDatastore -Datastore ($datastore) -Scope global

Write-Verbose "Created PSDrive at location $hostname"

#Access the new PSDrive

Set-Location $hostname":"

Write-Verbose "Changed Location to datastore"

#Create the syslog folder

$null = New-Item $folder -ItemType directory -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue

Write-Verbose "Created folder named $folder"

#Set the advanced parameter to configure the scratch on the boot lun

$value = "/vmfs/volumes/$($datastore.name)/"+$folder

Get-AdvancedSetting -Entity $VMhostname -Name "ScratchConfig.ConfiguredScratchLocation" | Set-AdvancedSetting -Value $value -confirm:$false

Write-Verbose "Set scratch location on $hostname to $value"

#Cleanup

Set-Location $currentLoc

Remove-PSDrive $hostname

Clear-Variable hostname -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue

Clear-Variable datastorename -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue

Clear-Variable value -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue

}

Write-Host -ForegroundColor Green "End Creating Scratch Partition".ToUpper()

# End Creating Scratch Partitions ##################################################################################

Attached is a sample for configuring scratch partitions. - You will need to tweek the directory and cluster name to suit. You will need to reboot once they are set for the log folder to appear in the shared storage. Also both location in the second screengrab should be the same. As in Directory Configured and current directory

Re: Disabling DRS for an specific VM (atypically)

cliffcahill — Thu, 16 Mar 2017 18:11:00 GMT

High Availability does not consult DRS rules for affinity or anti-affinity when a virtual machine is powering on. A DRS can migrate virtual machines to satisfy affinity rules after the virtual machine is powered on.

Re: Adding New CD/DVD Device when Creating Virtual Server

cliffcahill — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 12:22:19 GMT

Is the VMware Client Integration Plugin installed?