Hello Folks! Well the recent VMworld 2020 which was virtually held had some of the great sessions and major announcements in the area of Network & Security, Multi Cloud, VMware vRealize AI, Project Monterey and many more. But your primary interest always lies towards your inhouse products and its development. Being a part of SAP, I would like to talk about the session that caught my eye titled SAP HANA on vSphere 7 Best Practices, Session: HCP1245. The session was conducted by Erik Rieger, SAP Global Technical Alliance Manager & Sebastian Lenz, SAP Performance and Certification Engineer. If you missed

I am equally excited to publish this blog post as I would be referring to a VMware community that helped me to lay the foundation, In other words, gave me an opportunity to present my technical skillset on a public forum! “VMUG Pune” Yes !! you have read this perfectly fine. However, the main agenda is to talk about the vLeaderConnect webcast that was held recently. The special guest speaker to this event was none other than Duncan Epping. I would really be surprised to know you have not heard about this individual If you are associated with VMware technology

It has been a decade I have not published a blog post. So with vSphere 7.0 out in the market, I did not find a better time to start blogging again! Well vSphere 7.0 has been introduced with a bang. Some fantastic features has been made available. vSphere with Kubernetes (Project Pacific)vCenter Server ProfilesvSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM)Improved DRSCertificate ManagementRefactored vMotion There are other great features apart from what I have mentioned above. But these Six features caught my eye. So lets have a short overview one after the other. vSphere with Kubernetes (Project Pacific) This was one of the major

It gives me a immense pleasure to inform you that I have renewed my vExpert title for third time in a row. I thank the VMware community to keep me motivated through out this tenure. Its been a while I have not posted any article. So I decided to write one . We received an alert on one of the customers environment stating vCenter service has stopped responding. Reboot did not fix it too and that was certainly a matter of concern for system administrators! As a part of troubleshooting step it is always good practice to start having look

Hello Folks, Last week I was working on a SRA upgrade for one of the customer. Upgrade was basically from NETAPP 2.1 P1 to 4.0 P1. I did encounter two issues during this process. First was during installation of the new SRA as it was failing with the below error message. Initially I assumed the older SRA uninstall process was not completed properly due to which we encountered this issue. I did reboot the server post uninstall but no luck. Later I realized that UAC was enabled on this server and that was blocking to attempt the installation further. Steps

Hello Folks,First of all to let you know I have departed ways with VMware Inc, currently working with Sungard Availability Services as a Specialist in disaster recovery. With the new role comes new challenges,So you might see a reduced frequency in my blog posts but I will keep the pace going 😊   Talking about today's article it is basically on installing and configuring EMC Virtual Storage Integrator in order to allow test failover to complete if the replication is broken between sites. Whats is VSI? VSI is a simple plugin that basically registers to the vCenter server. The main

Hello Folks, Finally vSphere 6.7 is out in the market. Most of the users out there would be planning for a upgrade. So thought of making people familiarize with the UI. This article is basically to upgrade vCenter 6.5 to vCenter 6.7 GA. Once the ISO has been downloaded from the VMware portal. You can go ahead and click on the installer. Click on Upgrade Click on Next. Accept the EULA agreement and click on Next. Go ahead and provide the source vCenter appliance IP address (which is your current vCenter.) Port would be by default 443. Click Connect to

Hi All, I am happy to announce that I have managed to bag the vExpert title for two consecutive years. Feels great & motivated to blog and contribute to VMware community. Now talking about today’s article, It was tricky but an interesting one. My customer came up with a scenario where there were no recent changes done in the environment but SRM service in the primary site stopped running indefinitely. As I always believe in vmware-dr.log ,I went ahead and validated the backtrace being generated. To my surprise it was the first time I encountered such a back trace with

Whenever you think you understand a product to a certain extent the product proves you wrong. So I was in a similar situation where a customer reported that SRM service was failing to start at the recovery site. As my regular practice which I always do, went through the DR logs to validate the error backtrace. I managed to find a interesting backtrace. Those who still do not like to memorize the path, you can find it below. C:ProgramDataVMwareVMware vCenter Site Recovery ManagerLogsVMware-dr.log.  VMware-dr.log Attempting to connect `anonymous-namespace'::ConnectHandler::GetContentComplete: Failed to retrieve admin content while connecting to SSO.Exception: --> std::exception 'class

This blog post has been written on a public demand as we have been receiving lots of such cases in context to upgrade failure while upgrading the vsphere replication to 6.1.2.1 build 7026558.   As of now VMware does not have any official document stating that vSphere replication should be previously running on 6.1.2 in order to perform a successful upgrade to 6.1.2.1. Yes that is true, I did not have any success rate with upgrading the VR from 6.1.x to 6.1.2.1 apart from 6.1.2 which is the only version compatible to be upgraded to 6.1.2.1.   When you try