Fresh Job, fresh Laptop, and some fresh (and some old) learning to do. Going for the VCAP-DCV certification again, I needed a minimal lab environment inside VMware Workstation. The VCSA demands forward and reverse DNS resolving, and in the previous 'flufflab/flufflap', I had used BIND running in Ubuntu for this purpose. (and before that, I
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Background We recently migrated a number vCenter installs from 5.5 on Windows, to the 6.5U1 VCSA These installs where in pairs, 1 vCenter per datacenter/MER, each their own seperate SSO install (on the same server). We did not believe at the time, that these SSO installations had any relationship with each other. The reason we
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If you are migrating a large 5.5 vCenter environment to latest and greatest sexy VCSA using the Migration-Assistant , it can be a tedious wait sometimes. Also things can go horribly wrong. Here are some logs and their locations I like to monitor during upgrade activities. (note: This only applies to the Migration Assistant for
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Ran into an interesting issue during a 5.5 to 6.5 migration. During phase 2 of the installation (final configuration of the target VCSA), this would fail with the error: "Insufficient space on the appliance partition to accommodate all the data for upgrade data option 'core'" Digging into the VCSA logbundle, various logs reported an issue
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On ESX 5.5U3, I recently ran into an annoying issue with HA. vSphere had recently been updated, but the hosts had not been all yet received the very latest version of the FDM (fault domain manager, aka 'HA') agent. During some routine maintenance work, a particular host was taken in and out of maintenance mode
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