Recently one of my customer contacted me because they had some issues with their backup environment. They use one of my favorite backup system and backup of logs of really big databases stopped working and logs filled up disk space and I don't have to write what happened next. After some investigations and solving a problem, during audit… Read More »
Today I was informed that there were some logging problems to vCenter Server (VCSA). I did a short investigation via SSH and check if all required services are running and I found out that vpxd is down. I checked vpxd.log (tail -100 /var/log/vmware/vpxd/vpxd.log) and found that there were some db errors and: Panic: Unrecoverable database error. Shutting down… Read More »
VMware releases useful tools named flings. Those tools help not only in daily activities but also simplify migration or upgrade vSphere environment. Some tools are included in later version of VMware product after testing and solving potential problems/bugs during "fling phase" 🙂 In this post I will show my favorite fling tools that I often use. vSphere HTML5… Read More »
