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vCenter – HA Error: The number of heartbeat datastores for host is 1
The following steps detail how to suppress the vCenter cluster warning: The number of heartbeat datastores for host is 1, which is less than required: 2 You may encounter this situation in a lab...
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Embedded Managment for VMAX All Flash and VMAX3
The following is an excellent post written by Paul Martin (@rawstorage) which details the eMGMT feature available on VMAX All Flash and VMAX3 Systems: Embedded Managment for VMAX All Flash and VMAX3 –...
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How to Identify a VMAX3 / VMAX All Flash System from the Serial Number
See also: EMC VMAX – Build Location and Model Type The following table lists the serial numbers associated with VMAX3(100K,200K&400K) and VMAX All Flash(250F,450F&850F) systems: Code Level...
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RecoverPoint GEN6 Hardware Appliance
New RecoverPoint Hardware Platform Introducing the latest generation of RecoverPoint Appliance the ‘EMC Europa 1U’ Gen6 which replaces the ‘Intel R1000’ Gen5 Appliance. The Gen6 RPA is available from...
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vSphere VCSA 6.x – Enabling Bash Shell
This post was a result of requiring access to the VCSA BASH Shell console in order to perform such functions as certificate-manager (/usr/lib/vmware-vmca/bin/certificate-manager). The default Shell...
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ViPR Controller -Configuring AD Authentication
The default built-in administrative accounts may not be granular enough to meet your business needs, if this is the case then adding an authentication provider such as Active Directory which we...
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vCenter Deploying OVF –‘A connection error occurred’
During the process of deploying an OVF (Log Insight in this example) using the vSphere Web Client running on a local windows vCenter instance, I encountered the following error: ‘A connection error...
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vSphere VCSA 6.0 Sizing
“The vCenter Server Appliance is a preconfigured Linux virtual machine, which is optimized for running vCenter Server and the associated services on Linux.” Detailed VMware overview of VCSA found here....
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EXSi 5.5 to 6.0 Upgrade: Remove Mellanox Conflicting VIBs
We encountered the following “Conflicting VIBs” blocker, while upgrading ESXi 5.5 hosts to 6.0: The Mellanox driver is required for infiniBand, as we do not have a requirement for infiniBand we could...
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Disassociate Host From vCenter Server
Disassociate Host From vCenter Server There maybe many reasons to perform such an action, but mine was due to not removing ESXi 6.0 hosts from a Lab vCenter before destroying it. In this case you will...
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DellEMC EHC 4.x ‘Hybrid Management Model’ (VxBlock/VxRack)
This post provides a high level overview of the Enterprise Hybrid Cloud 4.x ‘Hybrid Management Model’, which is the default model used for VxBlock & VxRack EHC solutions. The following DellEMC...
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VCSA 6.0U2 Lookup SSO Domain Name & Site Name
Begin by SSH to your VCSA. Run the following command to discover your SSO Domain Name: /usr/lib/vmware-vmafd/bin/vmafd-cli get-domain-name --server-name localhost Command to discover your SSO Site...
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Installing vRealize Automation 7.1
This post will provide a step-by-step walk through installation of vRA 7.1, utilising the vRA wizard based install and configuration utility. This example focuses on the ‘Enterprise Install’ for a...
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VMAX AFA – Compression Notes
VMAX All Flash compression feature – released with HYPERMAX OS 5977.945.890 Some key points: 1. This new feature compresses data before it is written to flash drives. 2. Compression is managed per...
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vRealize Automation 7.1 Wizard Install – vCenter Agent Name not aligned with...
Looks like there maybe a bug in the vRA 7.1 wizard deployment. I’m running vRA version 7.1 build 4270058 and Windows 2012 R2 build 9600. Even though we configured the vCenter endpoint name as...
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ViPR Controller: Exporting VMAX3 LUN fails with Error 12000
This ‘Error 12000’ maybe encountered while exporting a VMAX3 LUN from ViPR Controller as a shared datastore to a specific ESXi Cluster. This issue arises in scenarios where for example the ESXi hosts...
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Deploying VCSA 6.0 with External PSC (New Site Joining Existing SSO Domain)
The following provides a step-by-step walkthrough for deploying an external PSC Appliance into a new site, while joining an existing SSO Domain, followed by the installation of VCSA 6.0. This scenario...
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vRealize Automation 7.1 – Create Tenant & Configure Authentication (Part 2)
vRealize Automation 7.1 – Installation (Part 1) Following on from the Install post above, the following steps detail the creation of a Tenant in vRA 7.1. Begin by navigating to https://vRA-FQDN and...
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vRealize Automation 7.1 – Create Endpoints & Fabric Groups (Part 3)
vRealize Automation 7.1 – Create Tenant & Configure Authentication (Part 2) Following on from the tenant & authentication post above, the following steps detail the creation Endpoint &...
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vRealize Automation Blueprint Creation – vSphere Templates not Displaying
While in the process of creating a vRA blueprint, none of my vSphere templates were displaying as an option for selection. This led me to verify some of my previous config, which led to identifying the...
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