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Full Update/ Patch vCenter Appliance (VCSA) Using .ISO

February 5, 2018 Faisal Rahman Comments 0 Comment

There are numbers of way to full patch/ update vCenter Appliance (VCSA). Most of those are using the repository from network/ internet and the easiest one is to utilise the .iso file ready to use with CDRom drive (my prefered option for updating HA or standalone vCenter). To utilising the .iso file to fully patch the VCSA, the file required to download from my.vmware.com portal. The URL for all patch is https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/patch. Once on the page, select VC from the…

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NSX Manager Account – NSX CLI account – Part-3 (Features Roles and Permissions)

January 8, 2018 Faisal Rahman Comments 0 Comment

The earlier posts were discussed NSX CLI account creation (part-1) and the account modification (part-2). In this part, we will go through the roles and permission for those accounts. As discussed in part-1, the only NSX CLI is not getting transformed or matched to the vCenter based role is the super_user role, which is same as NSX manager’s built-in admin role. The rest two roles, Security Admin and Auditor get matched and can manage from vCenter GUI. Same goes when we…

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Install and Configure vROps Management Pack for NSX

December 14, 2017 Faisal Rahman Comments 1 comment

Installing vRops management pack for NSX is easy as all other management packs. First, download the management pack from VMware market place (VMware Solution Exchange). To do so, search for “management pack for NSX”. At the time of writing the latest version is on https://marketplace.vmware.com/vsx/solutions/management-pack-for-nsx-for-vsphere-3-5-1 Click try button and log in using your credentials. Make sure you check the compatibility before install / configure for your environment. Once it gets downloaded, install the management pack (extension .pak). To do so,…

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Cannot log in to the ESXi 6.0 host using Active Directory domain credentials

July 12, 2016 Faisal Rahman Comments 0 Comment

After an ESXi v6 host is added to the domain and add domain security group to the ESXi permissions, users might not able to login to ESXi host using domain credential. There can be many reason for this. One of the reasons is that the ldap cache is not big enough to catch require ladp data. /var/log/syslog.log file will have a entry lwsmd: encoded packet size too big (4612 > 4096)To fix the issue, /etc/likewise/openldap/ldap.conf needs to configure. The default…

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