This Post cover below , and mainly for installing and configure VCSA we should have proper FQDN Set up DNS using a Windows DNS server. Install an external Platform Services Controller (PSC). Install vCSA 6.5 using the external PSC just created. Configured DNS The first step is to come up with hostnames and corresponding IP […]

• vSphere 6.5

This Post explain how can we generate an output contains , Total number of vCpu used in an vCenter Cluster , also it shows many vCPU used per Esxi hosts .  If you have  multiple Cluster it is very easy to find same using below script. Connect-VIServer  “vCenter Name” $TotalNumvCPUs = 0 Foreach ($Cluster in (Get-Cluster |Sort Name)){ $HostNumvCPUs = 0 Write-Host “Cluster: $($Cluster.name)“ Foreach ($ESXHost in ($Cluster |Get-VMHost |Sort Name)){ […]

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Problem Setting up a simple vSphere 6.5  environment, using percentage-based HA we have been seeing the following Configuration Issue flag on the cluster . Insufficient configured resources to satisfy the desired vSphere HA failover level on the cluster … You can see the alarms have Acknowledge/Reset options, this is a Configuration Issue message instead. I have […]

• vSphere 6.5

In vSphere 6.5 there new feature is enabled  ,come back of VMFS storage space reclamation. This feature was enabled in a manual way for VMFS5 datastores and was able to be triggered when you free storage space inside a datastore when deleting or migrating a VM or consolidate a snapshot. At a Guest OS level, storage space is […]

• vSphere 6.5

This post is relate to virtual machine backup failing on EMC network environment . Error  NVP: Error disabling storage migration, retrying, error: VDDK Error: 20005: The operation has been disabled by the guest operating system. Few backups fail with error ‘operation has been disabled by the guest operating system’: Cause vProxy attempts to disable VM […]

• EMC Networker

Check NTP Services status  Get-VMHost | Get-VmHostService | Where-Object {$_.key -eq “ntpd”}                 Check Firewall exception configuration  Get-VMHost | Get-VMHostFirewallException | where {$_.Name -eq “NTP client”}               Enable the FirewallException to all ESXi Hosts Get-VMHost | Get-VMHostFirewallException | where {$_.Name -eq “NTP […]

• PowerCLI

List all virtual machines where CBT enabled  Get-VM| Where-Object{$_.ExtensionData.Config.ChangeTrackingEnabled -eq $true} Check specific virtual machines where CBT enabled  Get-VM  “TEST-VM-01” | Where-Object{$_.ExtensionData.Config.ChangeTrackingEnabled -eq $true} List all virtuals machine where CBT disabled Get-VM| Where-Object{$_.ExtensionData.Config.ChangeTrackingEnabled -eq $false} Check specific virtual machines where CBT disabled Get-VM  “TEST-VM-01” | Where-Object{$_.ExtensionData.Config.ChangeTrackingEnabled -eq $false} Note : In GUI mode we cannot […]

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