I noticed that my DR VCSA was down when I could not reach it from the Production VCSA in enhanced link mode. I tried to connect directly to it and received the error: 503 Service Unavailable (Failed to connect to endpoint: [N7Vmacore4Http20NamedPipeServiceSpecE:0x00007f9b48016e80] _serverNamespace = / action = Allow _pipeName =/var/run/vmware/vpxd-webserver-pipe) I SSH’ed to the […]
I had a need to split out the PSC from vCenter to use enhanced link mode for a DR site. This particular vCenter had been upgraded several times and I opted for a fresh start instead of trying to split out the current vCenter. I deployed the PSC and vCenter 6.5 as separate VM’s. […]
I installed a Brocade BR-1020 in an ESXI 6.5 host and it purple screened on reboot. The Firmware on the BR-1020 was 2.2.0.1 and I could not use ESXCLI or vCenter to update because i can not boot the host. QLogic did have a liveCD that can be booted from to do the update. I […]
After upgrading vCenter from 6.0 to 6.5 i created an VUM upgrade baseline for the hosts with Dell image (VMware-VMvisor-Installer-6.5.0-4564106.x86_64-Dell_Customized-A00.iso). During remediation i received the event “Cannot execute upgrade script on host”. After trying the steps in KB 2007163 https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2007163 I did not see the events the described in the vua.log I did see […]
