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 …
Read More »Unable to find the answer CAFVARDIR in the installer Database–VMtools
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) …
Read More »vCenter Appliance 6.0 Unexpected inconsistency Run Fsck Manually
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 …
Read More »Configuring NTP with Master Clock in Isolated Network
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 …
Read More »Vmware Windows 2012 R2 template configuration–Recommended
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 …
Read More »vSphere Client 500 SSO Error:null
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 …
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