2020 Update: It seems as though this issue also pops up if doing a major version upgrade of the VCSA through the migration option. I was getting this error upon source appliance validation. A problem occurred while getting data from the source vCenter Server This Installer Log was showing these entries in relation to the […] Read More
Quick Fix: VCSA 503 Service Unavailable Error
2020 Edit: Seems like this error has been updated in vSphere 7.x to be a little more friendly and less terminal. The old error I referenced below was something specific to an unclean shutdown/startup of the appliance… with it being a lot more resilient these days, the 503 error came about just during initial startup […] Read More
Quick Fix – VCSA Low DB Storage Space Warning
I had a situation earlier this week where the VMware SDK/API service was being reported as offline. I was triggered by some failed backup jobs which made me check to see what could be causing the problem. Logging into the VCSA Management UI, I was presented with the following warning in the Health Status. File […] Read More
Workaround – VCSA 6.7 Upgrade Fails with CURL Error: Couldn’t resolve host name
It’s never an issue with DNS! Even when DNS looks right…it’s still DNS! I came across an issue today trying to upgrade a 6.5 VCSA to 6.7. The new VCSA appliance deployment was failing with an OVFTool error suggesting that DNS was incorrectly configured.
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OVFTool[30736] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Curl_perform error code 6 (Couldn't resolve host name) OVFTool[14004] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Closing image source and targets OVFTool[14004] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] CURL error buffer: Could not resolve: tpm00-104.aperaturelabs.biz (Domain name not found) |
Initially I used the FQDN for source and target vCenter’s […] Read More
The One Problem with the VCSA
Over the past couple of months I noticed a trend in my top blog daily reporting…the Quick fix post on fixing a 503 Service Unavailable error was constantly in the top 5 and getting significant views. The 503 error in various forms has been around since the early days of the VCSA which usually manifests […] Read More
migrate2vcsa – Migrating vCenter 6.0 to 6.5 VCSA
Over the past few years i’ve written a couple of articles on upgrading vCenter from 5.5 to 6.0. Firstly an in place upgrade of the 5.5 VCSA to 6.0 and then more recently an in place upgrade of a Windows 5.5 vCenter to 6.0. This week I upgraded and migrated my NestedESXi SliemaLab vCenter using […] Read More
Quick Fix: VCSA MAC Address Conflict Migration Fail + Fix
The old changing of the MAC address causing NIC/IP issues has raised it’s ugly head again…this time during a planned migration of one of our VCSA from one vCenter to another vCenter. Ran into an issue where the source VM running on an ESXi 5.5 Update 3a host, had a MAC address that wasn’t compatible […] Read More
Quick Post: Web Client vs VI Client Permissions with VCSA
I’ve been using the VCSA for a couple of years now since the release of vSphere 5.5 and have been happily using the upgraded 6.0 version for a couple of my environments As with most people I found the adjustment going from the VI Client to the new Web Client to be a little rough and I […] Read More
vSphere 6.0 vCenter Server Appliance: Upgrading from 5.x
Like most VMware Junkies over the past 24 hours I’ve downloaded the vSphere 6.0 bits and had them ready and primed to deploy and discover all the new features. Given the nature of a .0 release (not withstanding Change Control) upgrading production systems won’t be happening any time soon…however I had an opportunity right away […] Read More