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Attach contents of the following file to this thread:

/etc/applmgmt/appliance/update.conf

I have the same problem here. The services that are going down is vCenter Server and vAPI Endpoint. All ESXi hosts are disconnected, with "Cannot synchonize host" alert. I disabled all Statistics configuration and all disks have available space.

Could you help me?

Best Regards.

Valter Junior

This was a bug and has been resolved with the release of 7.0.1.00100 on 21OCT2020. Upon restart of the appliance backups for both SMB and NFS work normally again.

Hi Vijay

I checked and that file is empty. Should there be something in it? Do I need to replace that file?

See attached screenshot.

This vCenter appliance has been running for over a year and I updated it using the Web Gui a few months ago without issue.

Thanks for your help!

Hello,

I had the same issue and found your post while googling.

The "touch ..." part at the end of this article worked for me KB 67179: VMware Knowledge Base

extract ;

basically vami is looking for prechecks-succeeded,export-succeeded & import-succeeded files which will not be present in /var/log/vmware/upgrade, though this is zero kb file, create a file by using touch

# touch prechecks-succeeded

# touch export-succeeded

# touch import-succeeded

Didier

Hi Nawais

I don't think you read or looked at the putty screenshot.

I'm not new to VMWare.

I did that

Something is causing it to not stage at all.

Checked the logs, there's no indication.

That's when I came on here to pick the collective's brains.

Both the Putty screenshot and the logs are attached to the post.

Thanks.

Hi,

After migrating a vcsa server to a new host by cloning and moving to a new host ( with a new IP) all the entities see within vcsa are either "disconnected" ( hosts and vms) or "inaccessible" ( datastores). All right click options on any entity is also greyed out

I followed another link suggesting clone, power off old, power on new was the procedure but I'm wondering if the new IP may have affected the licensing state

Is there a way to get vcsa back to normal from this point

I have clicked through licenses and I believe the ones we need are assigned and not expired. We have 2 others which are expired but I think not used and were expired before the move

Regards

Paul

I followed another link ...

I wonder where you read this? What's the reason why you not just migrated the vCSA? The only reason I can think of is that you only have a "Essentials Kit" license.

Anyway, the issue you now have is that the hosts and vCenter cannot communicate with each other anymore. This is most likely related to the IP address change, which - depending on the vCenter Server setup - may already cause issues. However, what I think that may be causing this is the DNS resolution. Did you reconfigure the DNS entries (Forwared, and Reverse DNS) for the vCenter Server, so that it can properly resolves by name, and IP address?

André

Moderator: Thread moved to the vCenter Server area.

Hi,

The link for moving vcsa was here

Unfortunately, the dns and ip address change are all correct - everything resolves and is pingable

Regards

Paul

Hi,

is there a setting that during a reboot of the VCSA or restarting the vpxd service the hosts which are in standby will be kept in standby?

Currently they will always be powered on...

Kind regards

Stefan

No there is not. Are you using DPM?

in my vVCSA cannot use SCP protocol, what i am doing wrong?

No, this is my homelab and i set the 2nd host the most time to standby to save power...

And when i now doing some tests and rebooting the VCSA the host will be powered up every time. Will be nice if there is way to prevent this. But if there is nothing, then i must live with that...

But one way there is. I can remove the IPMI config from the host, then the power on task fails and the host keeps in standby. But then i must go to the IPMI web page to power on this host...

Do we have any endpoints to get vCenter Roles?

From Powershell we can get the roles info, but do we have endpoint from developer center to get this info?

Basically, I am looking for a way to fetch all the privileges set on a role and the role name from a Linux server without use of powershell.

Okay, understood. Had a customer not too long ago with a similar problem, but then it was DPM.

Some questions:

Which vCenter Server version and build do you currently use?
What's the vCenter Server's PNID? (command: /usr/lib/vmware-vmafd/bin/vmafd-cli get-pnid --server-name localhost)

If the PNID equals the fully qualified name rather than the IP address, then take a look at https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1001493 to see whether this helps.

André

Here is the update.conf

I would suggest restoring your backup (if you have one).

Yeah, this file needs to be replaced. I've attached one from my test lab with vc version: VMware VirtualCenter 6.5.0 build-14020092

Can you deploy a test vCSA of the same build and copy the file over or if you have a file level backup you can copy the update.conf file.

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