Get vCenter details from the Esxi

Details are on the file /etc/vmware/vpxa/vpxa.cfg

just grep -i ip /etc/vmware/vpxa/vpxa.cfg and then find the name via nslookup.

FIPS mode initialized or FIPS initializing SSH Error

Today I was working on my Test environment i got this issue  -


I was trying to ssh form one Esxi to another and I got below error

FIPS mode initialized



I never had this issue earlier .. I also could not find a KB, just found this post on vmware community
and it resolved my issue..

All i had to do is disable firewall on both esxi hosts.



esxcli network firewall set -e false

it worked like a charm.  Thanks SupreetK.

Using SFTP to connect to VCSA 6.5

Using SFTP to connect to VCSA 6.5

Choose the Environment/SFTP option

Specify for SFTP server: shell /usr/libexec/sftp-server

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dnsmasq.log - root partition is full VCSA 6.5

In the Morning got alerts regarding the VCSA Health ,I logged to VCSA Management Interface 

https://vcentercerver:5480

I can see some Helth warning on VCSA, SSH to VCSA using putty and immediately Noticed that  /root partition is full..



Then I dig deeper to find which files causing the issue and find the culprit bunch of dnsmasq.log files were created in the /var/log directory.  



Found KB related the issue that I'm having .. seems like it is safe to remove larger log files as a quick solution, it cleared most of the space and now I have free space.. 




Still I need a permanent solution for this .. Time to follow the KB and add parameters to Log rotate..   

First edit Log rotate for dnsmasq

vi /etc/logrotate.d/dnsmasq
Update the file to contain these lines and save the file: /var/log/vmware/dnsmasq.log {
nodateext
daily
missingok
notifempty
compress
maxsize 5M
rotate 5
sharedscripts
postrotate
[ ! -f /var/run/dnsmasq.pid ] || kill -USR2 `cat /var/run/dnsmasq.pid`
endscript
create 0640 dnsmasq dnsmasq
}

Then update the dnsmasq.conf

vi /etc/dnsmasq.conf

Update the file to contain these lines and save the file:

listen-address=127.0.0.1
bind-interfaces
user=dnsmasq
group=dnsmasq

no-negcache
no-hosts
log-queries
log-facility=/var/log/vmware/dnsmasq.log
domain-needed
dns-forward-max=150
cache-size=8192
neg-ttl=3600 

finally restart dnsmasq service

service dnsmasq restart 

new log files are much smaller and they are zipped.

 

VMware KB shows that this issue resolved in below version.

• vCenter Server 6.0 U3g, available at VMware Patch Downloads.
• vCenter Server 6.5 U2, available at VMware Downloads.