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…

Horizon View 7.X – Changing the Logon page

Horizon View 7.X – Changing the Logon page

Reading Time: 2 minutes When installing Horizon View, usually, customers ask you to have it’s own logo on the logon page. So after many search I fount how to achieve it.In VMware Horizon View 7.x we have 2 different pages. Landing Page HTML Portal Page I’ve marked the images we are going to change in red and the text…

Error setting up vCenter HA

Error setting up vCenter HA

Reading Time: < 1 minute While attempting to setup vCenter HA for my 6.7 environment, I got this strange error. “The object ManagedObjectectReference has already been deleted or has not been completely created”. The error could be related to the Distributed Virtual Switch, so I created a new port group with ame properties that the vCenter is using, moving the…

Removing Inaccessible Objects in vSAN

Removing Inaccessible Objects in vSAN

Reading Time: 2 minutes While building out a new vSAN Cluster, I received an error for the vSAN object health. I clicked the “Repair Objects Immediately” button, and it thought about it for a minute – but ultimately it was a wasted effort. The “Purge Inaccessible VM Swap Objects” button was up next. But unfortunately, like its partner, it…

VMware vSphere 7 what’s new

VMware vSphere 7 what’s new

Reading Time: 5 minutes vSphere 7 is built for supporting modern applications and the hybrid cloud. In the coming years, enterprises will build more and more applications using cloud-native tools and methods. There is a lot more complexity in deploying and managing modern applications. vSphere 7 with Kubernetes (formerly known as Project Pacific) is based on VMware Cloud Foundation…

How-To Migrate Active Directory from 2008 (FRS) to 2019 (DFRS)

How-To Migrate Active Directory from 2008 (FRS) to 2019 (DFRS)

Reading Time: 3 minutes When you have to migrate an Active Directory domain that use FRS for NETLOGON and SYSVOL replication you have to follow the following steps: Install the Active Directory Domain Services Role on the new DC Go on till the end of the wizard Be sure that the domain functional level is setted to at least Windows Server…

SSLVPN over LDAPS with self-signed Certificate on Windows Server

SSLVPN over LDAPS with self-signed Certificate on Windows Server

Reading Time: 3 minutes Many customers asked me to deploy an SSLVPN base environment not just for let the users connect to the office network but even as a tool for changing users domain passwords. Usuallu they don’t have a CA environment already deployed so we will use self-signed cert on Domain Controllers. Scenario:1) Active Directory2) Fortigate First of…

Edit Protected VMs in vSphere

Edit Protected VMs in vSphere

Reading Time: 2 minutes You can see that many object in vSphere are protected due to design or due to other software like VMWare Horizon that prevent editing. In case of faulted componets or some other reason you shoul have orphaned and uneditable VMs. How can we soldi this problem? Just followind this steps Connect with web browser to…

Upgrade PHP from 5.4 to 5.6 and roundcubemail

Reading Time: < 1 minute Before starting the upgrade you have to install remi and epel repositories as follow: rpm -Uvh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpmrpm -Uvh https://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-7.rpm edit the repository and enable it nano /etc/yum.repos.d/remi.repo [remi] enabled=1 [remi-php56] enabled=1 make a copy of the follow directories: cp -rf /usr/share/roundcubemail /usr/share/roundcubemail_oldcp -rf /etc/roundcubemail /etc/roundcubemail_oldcp /etc/httpd/conf.d/roundcubemail.conf /etc/httpd/conf.d/roundcubemail.conf_old Uninstall roundcubemail yum erase roundcubemail run ad yum…

How to gather STAG on DELL Switches

How to gather STAG on DELL Switches

Reading Time: < 1 minute Hi, all I’d like to share with you how to gather STAG on DELL switches using CLI according to switch models: F10 S Series SWITCH01#show inventory F10 N Series SWITCH02#show system id PowerConnect 54xx SWITCH03# show system   Having the STAG you can follow this link to check warrenty.  

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