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vRealize Operations vCloud Director adapter timed out

Posted on May 20, 2020

Few days ago we updated vCloud Director content pack for vRealize Operations Manager 8.0.1 from version 5.2 to version 5.3. After the upgrade vCloud Adapters stopped collecting data.The following message was displayed when Testing the connection: vCloud Adapter logs /storage/log/vcops/log/adapters/VCOpsAdapter 2020-05-20 12:45:12,919 WARN Collector worker thread 2 com.integrien.adapter3.alive.AliveAdapter.checkForRemovedNodeMaster – Skipping check for missing nodes, SuiteAPI […]

Cannot login as admin after upgrade vRealize Operations to version 8.0

Posted on December 8, 2019

After completing the upgrade from vRealize Operations 7.5 to version 8.0 we were unable to login as admin Symptoms Log in to the admin or Product UI of VMware vRealize Operations Manager 8 You see the error: The credentials are correct and logging into the node (in my case I only have a single node) […]

Inconsistencies between VOMA versions on vSphere 6.5 and vSphere 6.7 – What version to trust?

Posted on September 6, 2019

Experiencing metadata corruptions in VMFS volumes is a troubleshooting scenario that consumes a lot of time specially if you can’t access some VMs files anymore and your applications are experiencing outage. Hopefully you have your backups up to date and tested to restore your machines but in some cases you may need to recover those […]

Zerto 7 Update 2 – Unable to configure vCD settings

Posted on August 13, 2019

Symptoms We experimented the following problem when trying to configure vCloud Director settings from Zerto Virtual Manager or Enabling vCD BC/DR during the installation of Zerto 7 U2: Zerto virtual manager Install logs (location: C:\ProgramData\Zerto\InstallLog) Zerto.Zvm.Platform.VCD.Proxy.VCDProxy,Connect,Failed to login to ‘https://vcloudirectoraddress/api’ with username ‘Administrator@system’. Please verify the server address and credentials are correct Please verify the […]

Veeam Enterprise Manager 9.5 Update 4 Login error with vCloud Director Org user

Posted on May 16, 2019

Summary Login errors in Veeam Enterprise Manager after updating to version 9.5 update 4 are caused by a bug in mentioned version when vCloud organizations have any uppercase character. This is resolved replacing DLL with name Veeam.Backup.VcdLib.dll with the one provided by Veeam Support.Bug will be fixed on release 9.5 update 5. Symptoms After updating […]

ESXi 6.0 and 6.5 PSOD when running pktcap-uw

Posted on September 13, 2018

The pktcap-uw tool is an enhanced packet capture and analysis tool that can be used in place of the legacy tcpdump-uw tool. The pktcap-uw tool is included by default in ESXi 5.5 and later versions. It was detected that running a packet capture on ESXi 6.5 hosts will cause a PSOD. This issue is known […]

CommServe Prediction Reports using command line

Posted on September 13, 2018

Quick guide on CommServe command line reports to dump in CSV file usage periods and predictions of usage based on existing data. This and other queries can be implemented on CommServe Web Console for scheduled reports based on needs you can create a dashboard with tiles showing relevant information apart from ones provided for free and […]

Checking for updates in the vSphere Replication appliance fails on “Checking for available updates…”

Posted on August 30, 2018

Symptoms When you log in to the vSphere Replication VAMI page and click Update tab > Check Updates, you experience these symptoms: Last Check status changes to Checking for available updates… Unable to break out of this loop to update settings. Rebooting the appliance does not break the loop. Resolution To resolve the issue: Connect […]

vCloud Director 9.0 error NSX Manager is unreachable.

Posted on November 3, 2017

It’s been a long time without posting a new article so here goes a new issue I found with vCloud Director 9.0. Background VMware Cloud stack was upgraded recently to latest version vCloud Director 9.0 build number 9.0.0.6679579. All upgrades were completed without issues. My vCloud Director is attached to 2 vCenter Servers running v6.0U3 […]

Qlogic FCOE adapter disappeared after reboot

Posted on June 21, 2017

Hi Community members!! If you experience problems with your FCOE adapters the following post hopefully will help you. Enjoy! Background I run into an environment where vSphere hosts on Dell Blades were showing high uptime and that is great but couple of hosts experienced PSOD and solution needed to be implemented to make the platform […]