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Re: Standalone VCSA?
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Re: vSphere 6 standard - sso
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Re: Standalone VCSA?
The starting point can be a linux, osx or a windows box.
The installer creates a appliance like VM on an ESX host. This host doesnt need to be part of the later environment the VCSA is managed.
Regards,
Joerg
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Re: Standalone VCSA?
Thanks for the input.
I've spent a bit more time with this today. I guess the real question I'm looking for an answer to - can the VCSA VM be deployed to any other hypervisor? In this case, can it be deployed to a Proxmox host?
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Re: Error 400 processing vCenter SSO metadata - null
Exactly the same issue I have. Besides vSphere SDK 6.7, I also tried the latest 7.0 SDK, also the same error. Do you or anybody have a solution? Thanks!
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Re: Standalone VCSA?
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Re: Remove ESXi host from vCenter greyed out
Well the solution was to reboot vcenter. After this I was able to remove the ESX host from the inventory. However I do think it is a bug.
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Re: vCenter 6.5 to 6.7 upgrade
thanks andre
there is any way to get the update done? or shuold i wait to the next versions ?
thanks in advance
Dor
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Re: vCenter 6.5 to 6.7 upgrade
I - and likely many others - are in the same boat. If it is a production system that you want to upgrade, then better wait for a supported upgrade.
André
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Re: vSphere 6 standard - sso
Thanks Andre!
I am working to get the permission to reboot!
I will let you know if I have any success.
Thanks!
David
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Re: Get-TagAssignment fails with status code 429
If you can shoot me your SR#, I would like to pass this along to our TAM. I wrote a fix that wraps and replaces Get-TagAssignment with a try/catch that loops until Get-TagAssignment returns without error, sleeping in between tries. This eliminated errant retrieval requests, but now I have to play with the sleep interval to avoid throttling.
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Re: Get-TagAssignment fails with status code 429
functionGet-TagAssignmentDTI {
<#
.SYNOPSIS
This function retrieves the tag assignments of objects
.DESCRIPTION
This function wraps the VMware.VimAutomation.Core cmdlet, Get-TagAssignment.
The VMware cmdlet has an intermittent and random error that causes it to not
return tag assignments. This wrapper detects those occurrences and retries
up to the number of times specified in Retries, waiting DelayMilliSeconds
before trying each time.
.NOTES
Author: Paul Knight
Works only with vCenter Server 5.1 or later.
.LINK
Online version: https://code.vmware.com/doc/preview?id=6330#/doc/Get-TagAssignment.html
Get-Tag
Get-TagAssignment
New-TagAssignment
Remove-TagAssignment
.PARAMETERDelayMilliSeconds
Number of milliseconds between retries if unable to retrieve the tag
assignment. Default is 250ms.
.PARAMETEREntity
Retrieves the tags associated with the specified items.
.PARAMETERCategory
Returns the tags that belong to the specified categories.
.PARAMETERRetries
The number of retries to attempt before giving up. Failure is quiet and
returns null. Future revisions may want to make the nature of the failure
an option.
.PARAMETERServer
Specifies the vCenter Server systems on which you want to run the cmdlet. If
no value is passed to this parameter, the command runs on the default
servers. For more information about default servers, see the description of
Connect-VIServer.
.INPUTS
.OUTPUTS
Zero or more TagAssignment objects
.EXAMPLE
PS> $datastore = Get-DataStore MyDatastore
PS> Get-TagAssignment -Entity $datastore -Category MyCategory
Retrieves all tag assignments for the $datastore entity that have tags from
the "MyCategory" category.
#>
[CmdletBinding()]
param (
[Parameter(ValueFromPipeline=$true)]
[PSObject]$Entity=@($null),
[PSObject[]]$Category,
[PSObject[]]$Server,
[int]$DelayMilliSeconds=250,
[int]$Retries=500
)
begin {
"Started execution" | Out-Verbose -Caller Get-TagAssignmentDTI
}
process {
foreach ($objin$Entity) {
$tries = 0
$bRetry = $true
while ($bRetry -and $tries -le $Retries) {
$tries++
try {
VMware.VimAutomation.Core\Get-TagAssignment -Entity $obj -Category $Category -Server $Server -ErrorAction Stop -Verbose:$false
$bRetry = $false
} catch [VMware.VimAutomation.Cis.Core.Types.V1.CisException] {
# Resolve-Error($_)
if ($obj) {
("Retrying {0} {1}" -f $obj.Name,$tries) |
Out-Verbose -Caller Get-TagAssignmentDTI -Verbosity "High"
} else {
("Retrying {0}" -f $tries) |
Out-Verbose -Caller Get-TagAssignmentDTI -Verbosity "High"
}
Start-Sleep -m $DelayMilliSeconds
}
}
}
}
end {
"Finished execution" | Out-Verbose -Caller Get-TagAssignmentDTI
}
}
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Re: API changes in VCSA 7.0
Thank you for the info. At this point I'll mark this question as resolved.
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LDAPS Identity source addition
I need to add another identity source to my VCenter environment and having trouble. I've read other posts of people having similar trouble and I have not had much luck. I suspect there may be a few reasons why this isn't working and I need help understanding the why and if its even possible.
We have multiple identity sources configured and for sake of brevity I won't share them all.
These names are fictional for security sake..
We currently have an identity source using ldap setup as:
Name: business.college.edu
Server url: ldap://business.college.edu:389
Domain: business.college.edu
Alias: business
I would like to add an identity source to this site and instead of using ldap, I want to use ldaps. This is how I tried adding it as:
Name: business.college.edu
Server url: ldaps://business.college.edu:636 (I've also tried port 3269)
Domain: business.college.edu
Alias: business
I also include the SSL cert
Then I try adding it, I get the following error:
Check the network settings and make sure you have network access to the identity source
Is it possible to have 2 identity sources, one using ldap and the other ldaps?(We're working toward just using ldaps)?
Can the Name of the identity source be anything?
Do you see anything else that may be causing this?
Also, I when I edit the ldap identity source to look at those settings, The information in several fields - particularly the AD information flashes and shows me different results. For example, for Base distinguished name for users, instead of showing (what I think it is set to) DC=business,DC=college,DC=edu, it switches to DC=college,DC=edu.
Is that normal? I suspect that this is because I am logged in with an account in the business.college.edu domain and don't have access to the college.edu domain, but not sure... Either way, I am entering credentials with an account with domain admin rights on the business.college.edu domain. I also, suspect that the true settings for the ldap identity source may be different than I understand and what I see may not be good and the reason why my attempt at adding an ldaps identity source is failing.
Any and all help that gets me closer to a solution or better understanding is appreciated!
James
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ESXI 6.5 to 6.7 VCenter issues
Hello all. I am currently a student working in a lab environment and am having some interesting issues with my ESXI upgrade.
A little more info about my environment, I have two Dell Poweredge R630's with ESXI 6.5 installed. I have two Vcenter 6.7 servers, one on each host and one 6.5 VCenter on a single host. These are not Windows boxes, They are the ESXI version (I dont know exactly what to call it).
So I was planning to upgrade each host from the VCenter on the opposing server. I uploaded the ESXI 6.7 ISO to Update Manager and created a baseline. I was entering the ESXI host into maintenance mode when Update Manager became completely blank. I could see the tabs for Baseline, updates, ESXI ISOs but there was nothing underneath, no menu or anything so I could not remediate the host as I planned.
After many refreshes of the web browser we decided to restart the VCenter server which is where we ran into many more problems. now we get the "503 Service Unavailable" which I usually brush off as just the server starting up but it has been well over an hour (I also restarted the 6.5 server and it has already come back up). I am able to console to the VCenter host via ESXI and can SSH to it as well.
root@photon-machine [ ~ ]# service-control --status
Running:
applmgmt lwsmd vmafdd vmcad vmdird vmdnsd vmonapi vmware-analytics vmware-cis-license vmware-eam vmware-pod vmware-postgres-archiver vmware-rhttpproxy vmware-statsmonitor vmware-sts-idmd vmware-stsd vmware-vapi-endpoint vmware-vmon vmware-vpostgres vsphere-client vsphere-ui
Stopped:
pschealth vmcam vmware-cm vmware-content-library vmware-imagebuilder vmware-mbcs vmware-netdumper vmware-perfcharts vmware-rbd-watchdog vmware-sca vmware-sps vmware-updatemgr vmware-vcha vmware-vpxd vmware-vpxd-svcs vmware-vsan-health vmware-vsm vsan-dps
I used this link and ran update manager and ran option 3
I got a few errors but one that caught my eye was:
Error while reverting certificate for store : MACHINE_SSL_CERT
My theory so far are that I either did not get the correct 6.7 VCenter ISo (Do i need 6.7 u2?) or that the hostnames are being weird with having multiple VCenters. I always named the FQDN to be the IP address but in ESXI the hostname is listed as Photon-machine.
Wondering if anyone else has experienced my issues with VCenter and Update Manager?
Thanks in advance
James
Edit: Currently trying to do an upgrade via command line of the ESXI host. I originally thought I could not enable SSH without being at the console.
Edit#2: Got it upgraded with the offline bundle and SSH. Definitely a learning experience. Now time to see if my VCenter servers are back. I will mark the post as answered.
Message was edited by: James Bowman
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Re: LDAPS Identity source addition
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Re: VCSA 6.5 does not send alerts to e-mail
This is the answer for me!
It was already not working in vCenter Appliance 6.5. We upgraded to 6.7 and it was still not working. After removing Servername and sender address, save the empty settings, and add them again everything is fine.
Better than editing the submit.cf where no one knows anything about in a year.
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vCenter running Error (SMTP?, sendmail vmware-vpxd?, initialize failed?) help me
Hi, I did English using a translator.
I have problem unresolved matters.
I made vCenter in Centos 6.5.
I experienced many of problem.
<running vCenter>
first, I faced initializing SMTP error running vCenter.
Second, Failed services in runlevel 3 : sendmail vmware-vpxd
<after vCenter Login>
third, initialize.... failed .
I attach error image capture.
First Error.
Second Error
I need of solution this problem.
Please, help me,
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Re: LDAPS Identity source addition
You can add multiples identity source however, make sure you login with administrator@vsphere.local account. Below are the reference KB may this will also help you.
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Re: Migration-Assitant error during prechecks from Windows 5.5 to VCSA 6.5
If you cannot access the DB, make sure that the user has SA permissions and that Replace process level permission is set as following:
gpedit.msc - Computer Configuration - Security Settings - Local Policy - User Rights assignment
Click on "Replace a process level token" and assign it to the user running the Migration assistant and/or the service user which you are using for vCenter DB.
Also, I had an error about something with Update Manager. Closed the Migration Assistant, opened it again and WORKED. (w/o changes, w/o reboot, w/o logging off and on).
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