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    <title>CedricAnto Tracker</title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 21 Nov 2023 07:42:07 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:date>2023-11-21T07:42:07Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: "Management traffic" option for port?</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/vSphere-vNetwork-Discussions/quot-Management-traffic-quot-option-for-port/m-p/799033#M2536</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Management network&lt;/STRONG&gt; is the primary network interface that uses a VMkernel TCP/IP stack to facilitate host connectivity and management. It can additionally handle system traffic such as vMotion, iSCSI, NFS, FCoE, Fault Tolerance, vSAN.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Management traffic:&lt;/STRONG&gt; Enables a vmkernel interface to be used by vSphere HA&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jul 2019 06:29:11 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/vSphere-vNetwork-Discussions/quot-Management-traffic-quot-option-for-port/m-p/799033#M2536</guid>
      <dc:creator>CedricAnto</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2019-07-10T06:29:11Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: why can not restore VCSA 6.5</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vCenter-Discussions/why-can-not-restore-VCSA-6-5/m-p/960524#M12656</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P style="margin: 2px; font-family: proxima-nova, Arial, sans-serif; color: #666666;"&gt;for location save backup use this path 172.16.24.36/tmp/backup&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="margin: 2px; font-family: proxima-nova, Arial, sans-serif; color: #666666;"&gt;now when i want restore and in location field insert 172.16.24.36/tmp/backup appear this error :&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="margin: 2px; font-family: proxima-nova, Arial, sans-serif; color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="margin: 2px; font-family: proxima-nova, Arial, sans-serif; color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="margin: 2px; font-family: proxima-nova, Arial, sans-serif; color: #666666;"&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; Can you try to use restore location as the 172.16.24.36/backup instead of &lt;SPAN style="text-decoration: line-through;"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="color: #666666; font-family: proxima-nova, Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: line-through;"&gt;172.16.24.36/tmp/backup&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="margin: 2px; font-family: proxima-nova, Arial, sans-serif; color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="text-decoration: line-through;"&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="margin: 2px; font-family: proxima-nova, Arial, sans-serif; color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="color: #666666; font-family: proxima-nova, Arial, sans-serif;"&gt;There maybe a rational explanation if the above works. let me know&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 23 Mar 2017 15:55:52 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vCenter-Discussions/why-can-not-restore-VCSA-6-5/m-p/960524#M12656</guid>
      <dc:creator>CedricAnto</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2017-03-23T15:55:52Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Passed VCA-DCV and VCA-Cloud, working on VCP 550.</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VCP-VMware-Certified/Passed-VCA-DCV-and-VCA-Cloud-working-on-VCP-550/m-p/1809487#M7160</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Hi &lt;SPAN class="replyToName"&gt;VRBitman&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;STRONG class="font-color-meta"&gt; , &lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG class="font-color-meta"&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Sorry I haven't looked at the delta for 550, I know from a product &amp;amp; features perspective there weren't lot of changes on a relative note of the delta between 5.0 &amp;amp; 5.1(particularly SSO architecture).&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Key changes in my opinion would be Configuration Maximum/Minimums were upgraded ,minor Storage and network enhancements.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;If I come across any specific guidelines,&amp;nbsp; I will revisit this thread.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;-Cedric&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG class="font-color-meta"&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2014 11:34:36 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VCP-VMware-Certified/Passed-VCA-DCV-and-VCA-Cloud-working-on-VCP-550/m-p/1809487#M7160</guid>
      <dc:creator>CedricAnto</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-06-04T11:34:36Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Passed VCA-DCV and VCA-Cloud, working on VCP 550.</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VCP-VMware-Certified/Passed-VCA-DCV-and-VCA-Cloud-working-on-VCP-550/m-p/1809485#M7158</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;I found the attached guide useful...&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;All the best.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Moderator note: Attachment removed as Veeam request the completion of a small registration form first: &lt;A href="http://go.veeam.com/vcp-vcap-study-guide-sponsorship.html" title="http://go.veeam.com/vcp-vcap-study-guide-sponsorship.html"&gt;http://go.veeam.com/vcp-vcap-study-guide-sponsorship.html&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2014 15:18:18 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VCP-VMware-Certified/Passed-VCA-DCV-and-VCA-Cloud-working-on-VCP-550/m-p/1809485#M7158</guid>
      <dc:creator>CedricAnto</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-06-03T15:18:18Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: vCenter Appliance loses password?</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/vCenter-Server-Discussions/vCenter-Appliance-loses-password/m-p/426121#M12846</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;If its vCSA 5.5, it is likely to be this, &lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2069041" title="http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2069041"&gt;VMware KB: vCenter Server Appliance 5.5 root account locked out after password expiration &lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;For other versions there are few possibilities I can think of&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Do you have any password management/compliance utility , these tools have a tendency to reset password regularly&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Or&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Have you configured password aging&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Interesting thing to note is that on a reboot the password is recovered, strange...&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2014 15:28:29 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/vCenter-Server-Discussions/vCenter-Appliance-loses-password/m-p/426121#M12846</guid>
      <dc:creator>CedricAnto</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-05-29T15:28:29Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Are non-critical patches needed when installing critical patches?</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/vSphere-Upgrade-Install/Are-non-critical-patches-needed-when-installing-critical-patches/m-p/378586#M3190</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;To answer your question, No , its not *needed* to push non-critical patches, but if you have a downtime you might as well push all patches.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Here are the general guidelines,&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Abstract from KB &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;A class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2014447"&gt;http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2014447&lt;/A&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt; &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;SPAN style="color: #0000cd;"&gt;Critical&lt;/SPAN&gt; - A problem which&amp;nbsp; may severely impact the customer's production systems (including the loss of production data). Such impacts could be system down or HA not functioning. A workaround is not in place. &lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;Recommendation&lt;/STRONG&gt;: Immediately implement the critical patch. &lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;SPAN style="color: #0000cd;"&gt;Important&lt;/SPAN&gt; - A problem may affect functionality, or cause a system to function in a severely reduced capacity. The situation causes significant impact to portions of the business operations and productivity. The system is exposed to potential loss or interruption of services.&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Recommendation&lt;/STRONG&gt;: Immediately plan for a maintenance window for the patch.&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;SPAN style="color: #0000cd;"&gt;Moderate&lt;/SPAN&gt; - A problem may affect partial non-critical functionality loss. This may be a&amp;nbsp; minor issue with limited loss, no loss of functionality, or impact to the client's operations and issues in which there is an easy circumvention or avoidance by the end user. This includes documentation errors.&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Recommendation&lt;/STRONG&gt;: Implement the patch in your next maintenance window.&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;SPAN style="color: #0000cd;"&gt;Low&lt;/SPAN&gt; - A problem is considered low or no impact to a product's functionality or a client's operations. There is no impact on quality, performance, or functionality of the product.&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Recommendation&lt;/STRONG&gt;: Implement the patch at your convenience.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2014 15:19:20 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/vSphere-Upgrade-Install/Are-non-critical-patches-needed-when-installing-critical-patches/m-p/378586#M3190</guid>
      <dc:creator>CedricAnto</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-05-29T15:19:20Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Does a tool exist that will help track what programs in the OS are causing large CBT?</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/Does-a-tool-exist-that-will-help-track-what-programs-in-the-OS/m-p/1808608#M176984</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Hi aceinc&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Welcome to VMTN,&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;You have an interesting use case,&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;We have two separate layers&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;A-VMFS(VMDK)&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;B-IOPS within Guest OS&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;For knowing delta in VMDK we obviously have CBT.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;For Application IO tracking from within OS you may need to resort to performance monitoring tools to track the process/application that cause the IOPS to files.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;But there will be a significant load on a system going this route.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Alternatively you can also consider using utilities like treesize to track the delta filesize and then predict the application that wrote to the files, for instance it should be easy to figure out that a DB write to database files/growth.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2014 15:10:29 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/Does-a-tool-exist-that-will-help-track-what-programs-in-the-OS/m-p/1808608#M176984</guid>
      <dc:creator>CedricAnto</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-05-29T15:10:29Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: unable to install VMwareTools</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/unable-to-install-VMwareTools/m-p/353540#M17731</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Ssh to your ESX host and check if the file windows.iso is present in /usr/lib/vmware/isoimage&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Example&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;~ # ls -ltrh /usr/lib/vmware/isoimages/windows.iso(there is one for Win version prior to Win 2000 as well)&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;-rwx------&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 1 root&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; root&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 70.8M Jan 14 11:24 /usr/lib/vmware/isoimages/windows.iso&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;This is what the VMware tools installer looks for, once this file is found&amp;nbsp; , it mounts the ISO in the Guest operating system(similar to installing an application from CD)&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;As a workaround, you can find the file from any other ESX host and scp over to this host.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Or&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Migrate VM to another host that has the file already and install the VMware tools&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;But the fact that file is an indicator that upgrade was not smooth, they could be other inherent problems and best way is to re-install&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2014 08:07:55 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/unable-to-install-VMwareTools/m-p/353540#M17731</guid>
      <dc:creator>CedricAnto</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-05-19T08:07:55Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Issue creating a Win 8.1 Virtual Machine in Vshpere 5.1</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/Issue-creating-a-Win-8-1-Virtual-Machine-in-Vshpere-5-1/m-p/2143093#M200773</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Have a look at this &lt;A href="http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2006859" title="http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2006859"&gt;VMware KB: Windows 8 / Windows Server 2012 Operating System does not boot or install on ESXi or ESX &lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;If this does not help, please elaborate more on the sequence of events and at which point in time you are running into an issue&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2014 06:38:13 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/Issue-creating-a-Win-8-1-Virtual-Machine-in-Vshpere-5-1/m-p/2143093#M200773</guid>
      <dc:creator>CedricAnto</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-05-17T06:38:13Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: vmhba# different numbers on different hosts</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/vmhba-different-numbers-on-different-hosts/m-p/369008#M21067</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Can you please post /etc/vmware/esx.conf file outputs from both hosts ?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I'm only interested in this section, &lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;===&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;/vmkdevmgr/pci/m00008502/alias = "vmnic1"&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;/vmkdevmgr/pci/s00000005.00/alias = "vmhba3"&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;/vmkdevmgr/pci/s00000006.01/alias = "vmnic7"&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;/vmkdevmgr/pci/m00008501/alias = "vmnic0"&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;/vmkdevmgr/pci/s00000005.01/alias = "vmhba4"&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;/vmkdevmgr/pci/s00000006.00/alias = "vmnic6"&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;/vmkdevmgr/pci/m00008504/alias = "vmnic3"&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;/vmkdevmgr/pci/m00008503/alias = "vmnic2"&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;/vmkdevmgr/pci/s00000002.01/alias = "vmnic5"&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;/vmkdevmgr/pci/s00000002.00/alias = "vmnic4"&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;/vmkdevmgr/pci/s00000001.00/alias = "vmhba1"&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;/vmkdevmgr/pci/s00000001.01/alias = "vmhba2"&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;/vmkdevmgr/pci/p0000:00:1f.2/alias = "vmhba0"&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;===&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2014 03:30:56 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/vmhba-different-numbers-on-different-hosts/m-p/369008#M21067</guid>
      <dc:creator>CedricAnto</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-05-15T03:30:56Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: violet BSOD on ESXI 5.5 Host</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/violet-BSOD-on-ESXI-5-5-Host/m-p/1799594#M175487</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;It appears like you have a faulty hardware. NMI are are interrupts triggered in an attempt to regain control of your CPU that have been non-responsive, sometimes they dont respond to NMIs as well, these typically manifest as PCPU locked up. We also see PCPU locked up as 1 &amp;amp; 2(most likely one dual core CPU out of order), this is stronger indication that one of your CPU/socket that may be faulty.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Run thorough hardware diagnostics. Dont add this server in production and ensure the server is part of the VMware Hardware compatibility list &lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2014 06:10:49 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/violet-BSOD-on-ESXI-5-5-Host/m-p/1799594#M175487</guid>
      <dc:creator>CedricAnto</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-05-14T06:10:49Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: vmhba# different numbers on different hosts</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/vmhba-different-numbers-on-different-hosts/m-p/369006#M21065</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;ESX host enumerates devices based on the PCI order in which they are discovered. Particularly with UCS-Service profiles you can strictly govern the order and naming convention, this is not possible on other hardware platforms.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;You can get around by modifying the esx.conf file.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Did you clone the service profile or carve out seperate ones for each server ? If its the latter , check the device order - remember that vHBA &amp;amp; vNIC are both carved out from the CNA cards, so order of both NIC and HBA are important.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2014 06:01:19 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/vmhba-different-numbers-on-different-hosts/m-p/369006#M21065</guid>
      <dc:creator>CedricAnto</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-05-14T06:01:19Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: ESXI 5.5 Crashes randomly</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/ESXI-5-5-Crashes-randomly/m-p/1356369#M128434</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;You are running into this issue, &lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;A class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2059053"&gt;http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2059053&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;This is fixed in ESxi 5.5 U 1&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="https://www.vmware.com/support/vsphere5/doc/vsphere-esxi-55u1-release-notes.html" title="https://www.vmware.com/support/vsphere5/doc/vsphere-esxi-55u1-release-notes.html"&gt;VMware ESXi 5.5 Update 1 Release Notes&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2014 05:45:35 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/ESXI-5-5-Crashes-randomly/m-p/1356369#M128434</guid>
      <dc:creator>CedricAnto</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-05-14T05:45:35Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: How to generate the emc grabs from ESXi host</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/How-to-generate-the-emc-grabs-from-ESXi-host/m-p/369099#M21076</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Here is the link,&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="https://community.emc.com/thread/118148" title="https://community.emc.com/thread/118148"&gt;https://community.emc.com/thread/118148&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I've attached the files here, but they may be slightly outdated.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;==&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Extract the archive file on the client machine into suitable directory.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The client machine must have HTTP access to the ESX virtual centre&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;./emcgrab.exe [-h] [-v] [-host &amp;lt;host&amp;gt;] [-vsphereUrl &amp;lt;URL&amp;gt;]&amp;nbsp; -user &amp;lt;user&amp;gt; -password &amp;lt;password&amp;gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;==&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2014 05:40:40 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/How-to-generate-the-emc-grabs-from-ESXi-host/m-p/369099#M21076</guid>
      <dc:creator>CedricAnto</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-05-14T05:40:40Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: CPU READY% &amp; %CSTP</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/CPU-READY-CSTP/m-p/1333808#M123891</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Just noticed this thread, &lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;
&lt;P&gt;To answer your question "do i need to expand the vm and check %CSTP is less than 3% for each cpu or do i just look at the total like in the screenshot."&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;You would need to look at the cumulative value to ascertain how time the VM Co-Stopped and thereby had performance degradation.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;For a more elaborate explanation of CSTP , please look at my blog post&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="http://virtualknight.wordpress.com/2014/05/09/esxtop-cstp-explained/" title="http://virtualknight.wordpress.com/2014/05/09/esxtop-cstp-explained/"&gt;http://virtualknight.wordpress.com/2014/05/09/esxtop-cstp-explained/&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2014 05:33:01 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/CPU-READY-CSTP/m-p/1333808#M123891</guid>
      <dc:creator>CedricAnto</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-05-10T05:33:01Z</dc:date>
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      <title>ESXtop - CSTP metric explained</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/Legacy-User-Blogs/ESXtop-CSTP-metric-explained/ta-p/2764546</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;I've put together a blog post explaining CSTP, here is the article.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Any feedback is gracefully accepted and appreciated&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="http://virtualknight.wordpress.com/2014/05/09/esxtop-cstp-explained/"&gt;http://virtualknight.wordpress.com/2014/05/09/esxtop-cstp-explained/&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2014 04:56:11 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/Legacy-User-Blogs/ESXtop-CSTP-metric-explained/ta-p/2764546</guid>
      <dc:creator>CedricAnto</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-05-10T04:56:11Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: ESXi5.1 / vSphere Client: "Unable to connect to the MKS:"</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/ESXi5-1-vSphere-Client-quot-Unable-to-connect-to-the-MKS-quot/m-p/841865#M62014</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Are you able to telnet to ESX host on port 902 ?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;MKS=Mouse Keyboard Screen, these components activities are rendered over the network through port 902 from host to client machine.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Certificate error may be misleading, if it is indeed a certificate error or corruption, you can simply ssh to the ESX host as root and run sh /sbin/generate-certificates.sh. This should fix it.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2014 16:27:47 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/ESXi5-1-vSphere-Client-quot-Unable-to-connect-to-the-MKS-quot/m-p/841865#M62014</guid>
      <dc:creator>CedricAnto</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-05-09T16:27:47Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Analytics VM memory : 9Gb recommended, less than 4Gb used</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Aria-Operations/Analytics-VM-memory-9Gb-recommended-less-than-4Gb-used/m-p/2137716#M12084</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Hi David,&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Here are couple of things to consider&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;1- Oversized &amp;amp; Undersized VM's are based on policies defined- Unfortunately if you take the default policies they tend to be really aggressive and drag majority of workloads reflecting as wrongly sized. This behaviour has been refined in newer releases wherein you have some template policies. Policies are much like a workloads profile i.e. some VM's are accessed and busy during business hours, some VM's (example backup VMs) are busy during off business hours, similarly some are web based, iops based. Analytics VM also performs some staggered tasks and well as continuous tasks(data collection/processing)&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;In a nutshell you have to profile VM's and split them into Intelligent groups and apply policies that are applicable for specific groups(type of VMs). Otherwise these typically end up as incorrectly sized in the reports&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;2-Always respect minimum requirements of applications, natively VCOPS is not application aware, although you can integrate hyperic, it still does not connect the dots to respect application requirements.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;For example assume you have a vCenter VM with Tomcat services configured to used 4 GB, but based on VCOPS report of VCenter VM being Oversized, if you reduce vC VM size that cuts into Tomcat applications configuration, that application would crash or perform poorly, This holds good for all applications, so Analytics VM by design sized for minimum 1500 VM's, although you run much smaller environment , reducing the memory is not recommended.(You can ofcourse reduce disk size)&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Reference &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;A class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2057607"&gt;http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2057607&lt;/A&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt; &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Let me know if this provides atleast a high level perspective/context and answer to your question. Otherwise I will try to elaborate further.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2014 14:41:39 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Aria-Operations/Analytics-VM-memory-9Gb-recommended-less-than-4Gb-used/m-p/2137716#M12084</guid>
      <dc:creator>CedricAnto</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-05-09T14:41:39Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Time sync: Which takes precedence?</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/Time-sync-Which-takes-precedence/m-p/2136919#M199624</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; Best practice is to uncheck the tick box for "Synchronize guest time with host".&amp;nbsp; Having that box checked and using time sync from the domain hierarchy could lead to undesirable results.&amp;nbsp; Choose one or the other.&amp;nbsp; Also keep in mind that even when the box is unchecked, the VM will still set the GOS time to that of the underlying ESXi host under certain conditions (suspend, snapshot, vMotion, etc.).&amp;nbsp; As such, ensure that the ESXi hosts have healthy NTP configurations.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I slightly differ from this opinion.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;UL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;The ideal methodology /best practice is to sync Guest OS with NTP.&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;Ensure that tools time sync is completely disabled &lt;A href="http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1189" title="http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1189"&gt;VMware KB:&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Disabling Time Synchronization&amp;nbsp; &lt;/A&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;Also ensure ESXi hosts also syncs with NTP.&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Note : Particularly if you have virtualized your Active Directory(or any application that is time sensitive), the above steps are an absolute must, failing to do so may cause all of your authentication to fail when the AD VM has incorrect time.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2014 01:12:53 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/Time-sync-Which-takes-precedence/m-p/2136919#M199624</guid>
      <dc:creator>CedricAnto</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-05-09T01:12:53Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: stop ESXi shell</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-PowerCLI-Discussions/stop-ESXi-shell/m-p/365860#M5267</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Presuming that you are looking to use PowerCLI to simplify the task, here is neat article about it&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="http://www.discoposse.com/index.php/2013/10/09/powercli-enabling-and-disabling-ssh-on-vsphere-hosts/" title="http://www.discoposse.com/index.php/2013/10/09/powercli-enabling-and-disabling-ssh-on-vsphere-hosts/"&gt;PowerCLI: Enabling and Disabling SSH on vSphere hosts | DiscoPosse - Using the chicken to measure IT&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2014 00:41:46 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-PowerCLI-Discussions/stop-ESXi-shell/m-p/365860#M5267</guid>
      <dc:creator>CedricAnto</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-05-09T00:41:46Z</dc:date>
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