VMware Horizon View Deployment - Part 2: Connecting to the VCSA & Event Database

In the second part, I will show you how to set up the initial configuration of the Connection Server, include the vCenter Server configuration and also Database server required for the event collecting.

SRM and VCSA registration problem, DNS issue

Recently I have deployed successfully a new SRM Appliance in one of my projects, but after starting the configuration of vCenter server registration, I saw it show me the following error:

"http failure response for https://srm:5480/configure/requestHandlers/... :500 Internal Server Error"

Next, I tested with the VCSA's IP Address and accepted the security warning of its self-signed certificate, but I knew it will fail again. Because the vCenter has been deployed with the FQDN, not the IP Address and, finally it will redirect to the DNS name again. As I guess, this retry brought the following error:

"http://127.0.0.1:9286/sdk invocation failed ... 30,000 ms timeout on connection ... "

Now I was ensured it should be a DNS problem, so I check DNS settings inside the VAMI interface of SRM. By the way, I couldn't change its settings via GUI (I don't know why), so I decided to do it through the CLI via VAMI_DNS commands in the following order:

First as I thought it's related to adding wrong DNS server. There are some external DNS servers, so it's not possible to reach the corresponding Domain Name. Then at the next step, I change them to the local DNS Servers like the following:

This time when I tried again to register the VCSA for the SRM, it was accomplished without any special issues. Of course I had a little problem with Time synchronization between the SRM and VCSA, so I decided to show the troubleshooting methods for both of this problems in a separate video asap.