NSX Intelligence Alert – “The memory usage on Intelligence node UUID is above the high threshold value of 88%.”

Throughout the summer I’ve received several high memory threshold alerts for NSX Intelligence in one of my customers environment. The alert was in form of an email from vRNI that got the alert from NSX-T. The memory usage on Intelligence node <uuid> is above the high threshold value of 88% I created a case with… Read More NSX Intelligence Alert – “The memory usage on Intelligence node UUID is above the high threshold value of 88%.”

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VCF Verify / VxVerify – “vxnode: vxnode.config drives missing”

If you run your VMware vSphere or VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) stack on Dell EMC VxRail (VCFonVxRail), you are maybe familiar with the vxverify and vcfverify tools (requires login), which can come in handy for checking the health of your VCF and VxRail systems, both ad-hoc and before doing an upgrade. I won’t go into… Read More VCF Verify / VxVerify – “vxnode: vxnode.config drives missing”

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vIDM v3.3: “There was a problem with Messaging service. Error retrieving rabbitmq status.”

The last couple of months I’ve seen this error in a Workspace One Access Cluster (WSA/vIDM), installed in a VCF4 environment: “There was a problem with Messaging service. Error retrieving rabbitmq status.” WSA System Diagnostics Dashboard (node 3) WSA was initially installed with v3.3.4 on VCF 4.2. The last couple of weeks we’ve upgraded the… Read More vIDM v3.3: “There was a problem with Messaging service. Error retrieving rabbitmq status.”

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vRealize Network Insight secure log forwarding to vRealize Log Insight

Reading the documentation for vRealize Network Insight (vRNI), you find this: Currently, vRealize Network Insight supports only UDP for communication between vRealize Network Insight servers and remote syslog servers. So ensure that your remote syslog servers are configured to accept syslog traffic over UDP. VMware vRNI Docs The link in the annotation above shows you how to configure syslog… Read More vRealize Network Insight secure log forwarding to vRealize Log Insight

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Vertical Scale Up of vRealize Network Insight with vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager

vRNI - System capacity is breached! Indexer is lagging!! Please add more resources to increase capacity.

Correct sizing of vRealize Network Insight (vRNI) is not easy. While it’s easy to go with extra large “just to be safe” it might be better to start smaller and then scale up (more resources) and later out (cluster) when needed. Also keep in mind that vRNI requires 100% resource reservations for CPU and RAM,… Read More Vertical Scale Up of vRealize Network Insight with vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager

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