VMware announced on last Friday that they found a vulnerability which affect hosts contain VMs running with VMXNET3 due to several reasons, and this vulnarability affected VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion updates address uninitialized stack memory usage. Problem Description VMware ESXi, Fusion and Workstation contain uninitialized stack memory usage in the vmxnet3 virtual network adapter. This issue […]
Category: vSphere 6.7
Install VMware vCenter Appliance Security PatchesInstall VMware vCenter Appliance Security Patches
VMware announced on September 22th, 2017 that they are committed to monthly patches on the vSphere vCenter appliance, and we have to check the latest security updates and patches in VMware Security Advisories. Rally this is an excellent change from a security perspective as historically, VCSA patches when running on SuSE were not released that often, and VMware […]
Terminate unresponsive virtual machines by ESXi MethodsTerminate unresponsive virtual machines by ESXi Methods
I’ve written this post after coming across an issue I had not seen in a while, an unresponsive VM in vSphere client to any orders issued to it such as restart, shutdown, or power off. It happens from time to time by unresponsive; I meant a guest OS that will categorically ignore any remote orders […]
vCenter 6.7 Deployment – External PSC with F5 BIG-IP Load Balancer (Part 4.3)vCenter 6.7 Deployment – External PSC with F5 BIG-IP Load Balancer (Part 4.3)
I’m going to deploy a single instance of a vCenter Server. When I’m going through the vCenter HA configuration process my vCenter will become (Active Node, Passive Node, and Witness Node) will be created during that process. I will not deploy these appliances beforehand. First, I’m going now to finalize the last step of PSC HA which is run […]
vCenter 6.7 Deployment – External PSC with F5 BIG-IP Load Balancer (Part 4.2)vCenter 6.7 Deployment – External PSC with F5 BIG-IP Load Balancer (Part 4.2)
In this Part 4.2 of the vCenter 6.7 Deployment series, I will configure the load balancer that will provide a layer of redundancy between the two external Platform Services Controller (PSC) appliances that were deployed in configured in Part 4.1. F5 BIG-IP DEPLOYMENT I have downloaded my F5 BIG-IP appliance, and request the license during registration, and […]
How to resolve failed to deploy OVA / OVF issue (postNFCData failed)How to resolve failed to deploy OVA / OVF issue (postNFCData failed)
During the deployment of OVA or OVF appliance I have faced an issue which is: Failed to deploy VM: postNFCData failed: Capacity of an uploaded disk is larger than requested Also; the upload process has failed with the listed issue: This issue occurs when an incorrect ovf capacity size is specified in the OVF file that […]
vCenter 6.7 Deployment – External PSC with F5 BIG-IP Load Balancer (Part 4.1)vCenter 6.7 Deployment – External PSC with F5 BIG-IP Load Balancer (Part 4.1)
In this Part 4.1 of the multi-part series for vCenter Server 6.7 deployment, I’m going to deploy the two external Platform Services Controller (PSC) appliances. The PSCs will be load balanced by a 3rd party load balancer. In a real-life deployment, the load balancer could be a virtual or physical appliance, but in my scenario, I will use a virtual appliance. […]
vCenter 6.7 Deployment – External PSC Single Nodes (Part 3.2)vCenter 6.7 Deployment – External PSC Single Nodes (Part 3.2)
Let’s complete deploying of VCSA with external PSC. In part3.1 I have successfully deployed & configured PSC, so I’m going now to deploy and configure VCSA 6.7 in external PSC mode without HA or LB. Also; I have created the DNS record for both of them (PSC & VCSA), so I will start deploying the […]
vCenter 6.7 Deployment – External PSC Single Nodes (Part 3.1)vCenter 6.7 Deployment – External PSC Single Nodes (Part 3.1)
Hi everybody, in this part I will demonstrate how we can deploy VCSA External PSC separately, means just single node for each part of VCSA 6.7 Let’s start to deploy PSC appliance firstly then we will go to deploy VCSA 6.7. Step1 Create proper DNS A records for the new PSC & VCSA on your […]
vCenter 6.7 Deployment – Embedded PSC (PART 2)vCenter 6.7 Deployment – Embedded PSC (PART 2)
In this part, I’m going to explain how we can deploy vCenter Server Appliance 6.7 with Embedded PSC. First You have to Download the vCenter Server 6.7 from VMware Portal, you can find the download link below. Download First of all, you should create proper DNS A record for the new VCSA server on DNS […]