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Lets see if you wish to create a shared disk on a Oracle Linux virtual machine. The only difference i could see in a oracle linux you choose LSI Logic parallel and its recommended to choose VMware Para Virtual if its only a Oracle Rac cluster. The multi-writer option allows …

Installing VMware Tools on Red Hat Servers will fail with Error   Unable to Execute /USR/bin/VMware-uninstall-tools.pl Uninstall Failed Please correct the failure and re run the install. Execution aborted. Locating to bin and run VMware-uninstall-tools.pl will fail with Error Unable to find the answer CAFVARDIR in the installer database. (etc/vmware-caf/pme/install/preuninstall.sh) …

Solution – Enter Root Password Rebooted the vCenter Appliance Virtual Machine needed disk consolidation. Logged to in the Esxi host , Ran Disk Consolidation for the vCenter. Then Logged in to https://vcenter.careexchange.in:5480 Now Logged in to putty / Bash Ran shows the disk is full. Logged to the hosted Esxi …

Typically in Active Directory Based Environment – Primary Domain Controller (PDC) will be the master for Time and all other domain joined machines will receive time from the master. Login to Primary Domain Controller (PDC) which holds PDC Emulator Role – In my Case its an Windows Server 2012 R2 …

Floppy Drive Removed Memory 4GB Hard Disk 40 GB – Keeping it low is good as you cannot reduce thin provisioned disk size. Make sure Hot Add is enabled Enable Memory Hot Add for this Virtual Machine Enable CPU Hot Add only for this Virtual Machine Check and Upgrade Tools …

vSphere web Client says 500 SSO Error Null after reboot of vCenter Virtual Appliance. Solution – Once you are connected to your vCenter Server Appliance check your log file hostname# cat   /var/log/vmware/vsphere-client/logs/vsphere-client-virgo.log Reading the logs – The PSC and the VCSA  time was off by 20 minutes. I configured the …