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“Error: Invalid port or Certificate” appears in the RecoverPoint Management Console when adding vCenter Server

After RecoverPoint upgrade, both vCenters were not available in the RecoverPoint Management Console. When I tried to re-add vCenter, it failed with the error message “Operation Failed. Error: Invalid port or Certificate“.

I checked the user can access vCenter and the account is not locked out etc. If I remember correctly, it was not necessary […]

HOW TO: Configure Shared Diagnostic Partition on VMware ESX host

I meant to write this article for a very long time, even before I started this blog. Even took the screenshots and made a note of commands but never found time to do it. Well, better late than never! Besides, you don’t do it very often. Most likely only once, when you configure your ESX […]

HOW TO: Configure a new Service Offering in EMC UIM/P

I am currently working on VMware vCloud Director Proof Of Concept and decided to use two spare UCS blades and some storage to build a test environment.

We are using Vblock 300HX and I recently rebuilt EMC UIM/P and imported current production cluster with EMC UIM/P Service Adoption Utility (I am working on the article […]

vShield Manager stopped working

All of a sudden vShield Manager stopped working this morning. I could not open management web page (Page Cannot Be Displayed…) but I was able to ping VSE, console worked OK and IP address was shown on the Summary tab. After couple of reboots vShield Manager did not even show the IP address.

The problem […]

HOW TO: Upgrade vShield Manager, vShield Endpoint and don’t break Trend Micro DSVA

We are currently in a process of upgrading out VMware environment to 5.0 Update 1 and therefore need to upgrade vShiled Manager and Vmware Endpoint. We managed to get Trend Micro Deep Security Virtual Appliances under control (See my “Trend Micro Deep Security: Anti-Malware Engine Offline” post) and did not want vShield Manager upgrade to […]

HOW TO: Add new VMware vSphere ISO image to UIM/P

These instructions are valid for EMC Unified Infrastructure Manager / Provisioning (UIM/P) v3.0, Build 3.0.0.0.530.

UPDATE: EMC UIM/P 4.1 introduced support for Linux installation. Please refer to Add/Remove ISO images in EMC UIM/P 4.1 for details of the updated procedure.

When you try to create a New Service Offering you will only be able to […]

VMware ESXi Driver for Cisco fnic and Cisco enic

Download VMware ESXi Driver for Cisco fnic and Cisco enic: Cisco fnic driver 1.5.0.8 / fnic driver 1.5.0.20; Cisco enic driver 2.1.2.22 / enic driver 2.1.2.38. If the links above do not work, login to My VMware > Product & Downloads > All Downloads > VMware vSphere, select vSphere version and click on Drivers […]

VMware PowerCLI and ESXi Shell scripts

Small collection of VMware PowerCLI / Powershell scripts and onliners to save time re-typing them:

Get a list of all virtual machines with snapshots and save it to a csv file; # Get-VM | Get-Snapshot | Select-Object VM, Name, SizeMB, Created, Description | Export-Csv c:snapshots.csv # Get a list of virtual machines, guest IP address, […]

HOW TO: Start, Stop, Restart services on VMware vSphere ESX server via PowerCLI

The service you will need to start or stop simultaneously on multiple servers is likely to be the SSH (TSM-SSH) service.

Here is how you do it with PowerShell / PowerCLI:

$vCenter = ‘vCenter.vstrong.info’ ; Name or IP address of your vCenter Server $Cluster = ‘Vblock cluster 1’; Name of the cluster Connect-VIServer $vCenter $Scope […]

HOW TO: Find HBA WWN number on VMware vSphere ESX server

There are several ways to get HBA WWNs on VMware vSphere ESX/ESXi host:

vSphere Client; Using ESXi Shell; Using Powershell / PowerCLI script.

1. Connect to a server or vCenter, open server Configuration tab, under Hardware select Storage Adapters:

You can also copy WWNN (World Wide Node Name) and WWPN (World Wide Port […]