When planning a VMware home lab, you’ll face some decisions regarding the configuration to use based on the resources and internal infrastructure you have. One key part of these decisions is how to deploy VMware vCenter (VCSA) in Workstation. To deploy VCSA in a home lab, you have two ...
This operation needs to restart the vpxd service. So below operations are necessary to back up data. Please always take a snapshot of the VCSA prior to proceeding with this method. If using Enhanced linked mode ensure that all Platform Services Controllers in the federated environment are shut ...
Copy the downloaded “checksts.py” script to /tmp of VCSA VM Execute the command “python checksts.py” If you notice that the certificate is expired, continue with the rest of the steps. Otherwise, move to Step 3. Download the script titled “fixsts.sh“ Copy...
* This step is to check the file systems of the storage and perform any corrections. e2fsck -y /dev/sda3 Step 6. Restart theVCSA(Action>>Power>>Reset) and the VCSA should restart and hopefully be fixed. Step 7. Test your VCSA to make sure it is working and remember to remove the ...
Solution 1. Delete obsolete logs to fix disk exhaustion on vCenter When disk expansion is not an option, you can resolve this log disk exhaustion on VCSA error by deleting obsolete logs. To do this, you need to find where the storage is being used specifically under the /storage/log parti...
The memory limit of thevmware-system-tkg-controller-managerpod can be increased. The following steps describe how to increase the limit to 500Mi (MB): 1. SSH into the vCenter appliance: ssh root@<VCSA_IP> 2. Print the credentials used to login to the Supervisor control plane: ...
As their VMware Technical Account Manager, I check their Skyline Proactive Support portal on a regular basis. In the findings and specific recommendations tab it showed that the vCenter Server Appliance root partition had over 80% used space. Topic...
Before proceeding for installation of VCSA 8.0, make sure nslookup is working for vCenter hostname and IP Address. To add DNS entry on the server you can use articlePowershell Add multiple bulk DNS records from csv file. Alternatively you can add entries insidec:\windows\system32\drivers\e...
After figuring out why a “not so frequently” used vCenter is not working and failing to start, it turned out the VCSA had certificates recently expired. No problem, just run certificate-manager and reset all certificates. Having done this a long time ago, I had forgotten one important thi...
Performing Pre-Installation Check It’s always recommend to run pre-installation check, which will ensure all required RPMs are already installed on the given systems. If it’s found missing RPMs that can be installed on the fly. Syntax:./installer -require [Path_to_the_CPI_Script] -patch_...