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Recently, got to know from a customer who have a vCenter Server Appliance 6.7 that went down after a reboot. The services refused to come up. Looking at the error generated, it looks something similar to this KB . However, this was the the similar Error RC code which returns 1 instead of 11. So we went asked the customer what actually happens and the results was they change a new DNS server with new IP but did not update vCenter Server. This is a big impact! Why is this so? If you have deploy a vCenter Server, the requirement for forward and reverse DNS is required as a prerequisites else the vCenter Server Installation wizard will not proceed further. So while the vCenter Sever is still running without been updated on the new DNS, services on the vCenter start to act abnormally. A reboot will completely bring it down as nothing will start without DNS. The only service that will start is the vSphere Client service. There are few ways to change your DNS which I am going to lis...

If you are aware that vSphere 6.5 and 6.7 will have its end of general support at the same time on Nov 15, 2021. VMware has decide to extend the support for vSphere 6.7 till Oct 15, 2022 as it seems that many customers has just upgraded to version 6.7 and it will take awhile more before everyone can move to the new release of vSphere 6.7. With this change, vSphere 6.5 will remain the same while 6.7 will be ending its general support later. Do note that this does not change the end of support for vSphere Web Client previously mentioned . With vSphere 6.7 general support extension, the vSphere Web Client remain to be end its support in Dec 2020 as Adobe Flash ends its support.

The Round 2 of vExpert 202 application is now live ! This will run from 1st Jun to 25th 19th Jun. Do not miss this dateline. Start preparing now and submit your application. If you need more help or not sure what information to be included, join us in our VMUG SG session coming 3rd Jun, 1300 Singapore Time here . Here is also a post I did for those who are looking at applying to give you all the information I can think off. So head over to  https://vexpert.vmware.com/  and submit your application. All the best and good luck! 18th Jun 2020 Closing date extended to 25th Jun.