-
Recent Posts
- HPE 3PAR Adaptive Optimization configuration demystified
- 3PAR iSCSI Delayed ACK read or write performance issues
- Brocade 300 password recovery and factory reset
- vCenter Server Appliance 6.0 bug – Intermediate authentication issues – Native platform error -1765328378
- 3PAR with AO and SSDs. How much do I need?
Recent Comments
Archives
- July 2017
- June 2017
- March 2017
- February 2017
- October 2016
- August 2016
- November 2015
- October 2015
- September 2015
- March 2015
- January 2015
- December 2014
- November 2014
- September 2014
- April 2014
- August 2013
- May 2013
- April 2013
- January 2013
- December 2012
- May 2012
- April 2012
- March 2012
- December 2011
- October 2011
- March 2011
- February 2011
Categories
Meta
Category Archives: VMware
3PAR iSCSI Delayed ACK read or write performance issues
I’ve noticed a few people running iSCSI 3PARs with Delayed ACK enabled and experiencing latency on their datastores. Here’s what happens when you disable it (SSD backed datastore): Before and after: VMware KB about it: https://kb.vmware.com/kb/1002598 I suggest to use … Continue reading
vCenter Server Appliance 6.0 bug – Intermediate authentication issues – Native platform error -1765328378
Another mysterious bug from VMware – intermediate authentication failures. Symptoms: I’ve noticed some of the backup jobs were failing because Veeam failed to log in to vCenter. If you’re familiar with Veeam software – you define backup account per vCenter … Continue reading
Posted in VMware
Tagged -1765328378, authentication issue, bug, native platform error -1765328378
Leave a comment
ESXi 5.5/6.x bug HPE CIM – /var/run/sfcb inode table of its ramdisk is full
Another bug from VMware/HPE – unfortunately we don’t have public KB available at this point. As per our conversation with VMware engineer this issue affects both ESXi 5.5 and ESXi 6.x hosts. I suspect VMware sfcb service fails to clear … Continue reading
Alert! Alerte! Achtung! Critical bug in vSphere 6
Backing up VMs in vSphere 6 can cause data loss in your backups! Earlier I wrote about critical bug with vSphere 5.5 update 3 related to backups which was absolutely unacceptable and here we go again… Here’s symptoms from VMware’s … Continue reading
VMware Site Recovery Manager 5.8 command on SRM with Powershell bug
Hello, we have another VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) bug. This time it’s with Command on SRM server and Powershell scripts. I am not SRM developer but it seems SRM itself parses commands before passing it to Windows OS for … Continue reading
VMware Site Recovery Manager 5.8 Bug – Linked Mode
There is a “well known” bug in VMware Site Recovery Manager 5.8 (SRM), which puts your DR plan at risk. It will only affect if you have vCenters connected in Linked mode. Well, let me put it this way: when … Continue reading
VMware Site Recovery Manager remote Powershell script
You have a PowerShell script designed to run locally, but you need to execute it on remote computer via another product such as VMware Site Recovery Manager . You need to keep all your scripts in central repository but you … Continue reading
vSphere 5.5 upcoming features
Just came across this post on one of the forums about new features coming to vSphere 5.5. It is not an official release but more of a highlights by someone participating in beta testing. I’ve just formated this info: