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Configuring Log Insight 4.3 For A Fresh Deployment
VMware vRealize Log Insight is a product to collect logs from various solution and helps administrators to filter and analyze it. It helps for monitoring environments and performing security audits for...
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Unable To Configure ESXi Syslog In Log Insight 4.x: Details: Client received...
When you try to configure syslog for ESXi host under /admin > vSphere (Integration) you might run into the below error:Syslog configuration failed. See http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2003322 for manual...
View ArticleShell Script To Create VMs From Command Line
While I agree PowerCLI API's are the right way to deploy multiple VMs on an ESXi, I had to fallback to bash script for a project that I have been working on lately. The script is pretty simple. It is...
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Bash Script For Backup Details.
Earlier, I had written a script to count number of backups for each client in VDP. This was a very basic script and you can access it from the below...
View ArticleBash Script To Determine Backup Protocol
In vSphere Data Protection, you have couple of backup protocols. SAN mode, HotAdd, NBD and NBD over SSL. HotAdd is always the recommended protocol, as data handling and transfer is much faster than the...
View ArticleBash Script To Determine Retired Clients.
While in VDP you have a built in feature for unprotected VMs (That is VMs not added to VDP backup job) you might need a script to determine if VMs are missing from a backup job.The script has a simple...
View ArticleBash Script To Export VDP Backup Job Details
So you can use this script to export your current backup and replication job configurations to a text file and save it to your local desktop. In case if you run into any redeployment situation and you...
View ArticleBash Script To Extract vSphere Replication Job Information
Below is one bash script that extracts information about replication for configured VMs. It displays, the name of the virtual machine, if yes or no for quiesce Guest OS and Network Compression. Then it...
View ArticleVDP Expired Certificate
There has been a lot of issues going on around the VDP deployment due to an expired certificate issued to the OVF template.Basically, if you are running vCenter 6.5. then the web client is the only...
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Unable To Protect a VM In SRM: "Object not found"
So there's a rare instance where you will be unable to protect a VM and the error it throws out is:Internal error: class Vmacore::NotFoundException "Object not found"Under Protection Groups >...
View ArticleSRM Service Crashes After A Failed Recovery With "abrRecoveryEngine" Backtrace
In some instances, when you are running Array Based Replication for SRM, a failed planned migration might cause the SRM service to crash. In the vmware-dr.log found on the SRM machine, we will notice...
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Unable To Connect VDP To Web Client
In couple of cases, either on fresh VDP deploy or an existing deployment, the connection from VDP to web client via the plugin might fail. It would generically say, Unable to connect to the requested...
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ISO Undetected During VDP 6.1.6 Upgrade
With the release of VDP 6.1.6 comes more issues with upgrade, specially the main one; ISO is not detected in the vdp-configure page. You might see something like:To upgrade your VDP appliance, please...
View ArticlevSphere Replication Sync Fails With Exception:...
There are few instances when a vSphere Replication Sync (RPO based or a manual sync) fails with Delta Aborted Exception. This in turn will also affect a test / planned migration when performed with...
View ArticleVDP 6.1.6 Does Not Connect To Web Client After An Upgrade
Recently after I upgraded my VDP to 6.1.6, there was issues connecting this appliance to the web client. The screen used to be grayed out forever and the vdr-server.log did not have any information...
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vSphere Replication 6.5.1 With vRealize Orchestrator 7.3
Here we will be looking into how to configure and use vSphere replication with vRealize Orchestrator. The version of my setup is:vCenter Appliance 6.5 U1vSphere Replication 6.5.1vRealize Orchestrator...
View ArticleResetting Site Recovery Manager's Embedded DB Password
This article is applicable only to Postgres database which is the embedded DB option available during install. If you have forgotten the database password then you will not be able to login to DB to...
View ArticleVDP Upgrade ISO Not Detected
There are a ton of reasons why VDP ISO might not be available in the vdp-configure page (Few of those are available on my blog here) This is another one of the possible causes.> When we run df -h...
View ArticleMCS Start Up Fails In VDP With: Permission Denied At MCServer.pm
In few rare cases the management services might fail to start up with a permission denied message.If you run dpnctl start mcs you will notice the almost generic failure:root@vdp:/#: dpnctl start...
View ArticleMCS Service Crashes Due To Locked User Account
This is issue is only seen in an upgraded 6.1.5 instance, where the MCS service constantly crashes with a locked user account. In some cases, the MCS might be running, but none of the mccli commands...
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