How to Install vRealize Log Insight 8.3.0

How to Install vRealize Log Insight 8.3.0

Reading Time: 4 minutes vRealize Log Insight is an intelligent log management for infrastructure and applications. It is a scalable solution with actionable dashboards, sophosticated analytics and broad third-party extensibility across physical, virtual, and cloud environments. Fist of all you have to download the .ova Virtual Appliance from My VMWare, then deploy OVF Template as follow. Select the .ova…

How to Upgrade a vSAN Cluster

How to Upgrade a vSAN Cluster

Reading Time: 5 minutes Upgrading a vSAN cluster is not so complicated but you have to pay attention if you want to complete the process to ensure a smooth and uninterrupted upgrade. The vSAN cluster upgrade is divided into three steps: Upgrade the vCenter Upgrade ESXi hosts (you can have a look at the VMWare Documentation) Upgrade the vSAN…

Where is Lifecycle Manager item? Error starting service “updatemgr”

Where is Lifecycle Manager item? Error starting service “updatemgr”

Reading Time: 2 minutes If you don’t find the Lifecycle Manager item the the vSphere menu try to run this command first: service-control –status –all and check if there are any stopped services like this. As you can see we have more stopped services and even vmware-updatemgr. Secondly try to start all the stopped running service-control –start <service> and…

Update VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) with CLI

Update VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) with CLI

Reading Time: 2 minutes Upgrading VCSA with CLI is not so difficult as you could think. We need just six steps to reach the goal. Download patch from here. Upload to a datastore the iso file downloaded before anche connect to the VCSA appliance. Connect to the VCSA with SSH and run the following commands. Run software-packages stage –iso.…

Issues with PSC database? Use lsdoctor

Issues with PSC database? Use lsdoctor

Reading Time: 2 minutes Purpose of the article In this article I will show how to use Lookup Service Doctor (lsdoctor) tool to address issues with data stored in the PSD database, both local or external. Possible failures are: topology changes (converge, repoint, etc.) upgrades failure due to maintenace on SSL. What you need first First of all, as…

Cannot access VCSA 6.7 with WinSCP

Cannot access VCSA 6.7 with WinSCP

Reading Time: 2 minutes WinSCP is one of the easiest way to get information (logs) from the ESXi hosts and vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA).You can download it here. Which is the problem? When you try to establish a connection to the VCSA 6.7 using WinSCP Client, I got the following error: “Host is not communicating for more than 15…

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