This is Part 3, now you have an ESXi host and vCenter Server appliance deployed, in this part we are going to complete some core tasks to ready ourselves for provisioning virtual machines.
We are going to create and configure the following:
The vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) is virtual appliance based on the VMware Photon OS, optimized for running vCenter Server and the associated services.
vCenter Server provides a centralized platform for management, operation and provisioning of virtual machines, storage and virtual networks.
The VCSA includes an embedded PostgreSQL database instance, which is fully supported for the vCenter and vSphere configuration maximums and is the database solution to utilize going forward.
The vCenter Server contains vCenter Server, vSphere Client, vSphere Auto Deploy, and vSphere ESXi Dump Collector. The vCenter Server appliance also contains the VMware vSphere Lifecycle Manager Extension service and the VMware vCenter Lifecycle Manager, previously named Update Manager.
It is also worth noting that with 7.x VMware no longer support external platform services controllers (PSCs) and an embedded PSC will be deployed as part of this VCSA install.
Here we are right at the beginning of a multi part how to series I'm putting together on vSphere 7.0 U1.
If you missed any of the previous parts of the series or want go back/forward here is the jump list:
The first thing first we are going to install ESXi Server 7.0 U1. This is the baremetal hypervisor that will run our VMs and may be one of several servers you wish to build into a cluster managed by vCenter server to provide HA, DRS and vMotion features for VMs.
The ESXi server installation is straightforward, at this initial stage all we need to do is get the hypervisor installed, then configure the password and basic networking such as IP/subnet/gateway for the management network.
1. Check the server hardware you are installing ESXi 7.0 U1 onto is supported and on the VMware HCL.
If a Veeam backup job gets interrupted part way through it, you can generally can retry with success.
However, depending on the reason for the backup job interruption, additional issues can arise, one of these being topic of this post, which is change block tracking (CBT) no longer working.
This could be due to a number of reasons, such as a snapshot being removed during a backup, network or storage outage, to a host becoming inaccessible.
You will notice within the backup job's action log the following warning:
"CBT data is invalid, failing over to legacy incremental backup. No action is required, next job run should start using CBT again.
If CBT data remains invalid follow KB1113 to perform CBT reset. Usual cause is power loss."
After performing an upgrade of a View Connection Server from 6.2 to 7.0 in the demo lab, I came across the blank error dialog/window as shown below.
It turns out there is an important functionality change in how VMware View checks the URL you are using to access the administrator page.
This result of this change means unless you access the View Administrator page as https://localhost/admin or the URL defined in the secure tunnel URL (e.g. https://f.q.d.n/admin the request is rejected, and the error is not particularly helpful either (i.e. a blank dialog with a timestamp).
In my case this is a demo lab and hence separate from other systems. Because of this, I was using was the View Connection Server IP address (e.g. https://10.11.12.13/admin) which worked fine in the past. However the URL check is now causing the error seen below. Which may also apply to load balanced IPs/FQDNs.
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