August 2019 – Nick's Container on the cloud ;)

any host/VM tasks performed on vCenter errors with ““A general system error occurred: Connection refused: The remote service is not running, OR is overloaded, OR a firewall is rejecting connections””

August 29, 2019August 29, 2019 - Nithin Titta

logs from the above snippet, it appears the connection to vcenter port: 8190 was being rejected. as per Vmware docs, port 8190 is used by profile driven storage so we take a look at profile-driven storage log: at this stage, the service refused to start pointing to an invalid entry…

Enable TFTP on VCSA

August 7, 2019March 5, 2020 - Nithin Titta

vCenter

Start TFTP service Allow TFTP port on the VCSA firewall Confirm if the port is allowed on the firewall Make the firewall rules persistent: Export Ip tables rule Create a startup script at path: /etc/init.d/startftp.sh with the below contents: change the permissions of the script set the script to run…