As an extension of the last post, where we discussed how to take File-based backup and to schedule it.In this post, we will do exactly what the title say “Restore vCSA 6.7 VM, from File based backup” from NFS. It’s a simple 2 stage process: Appliance Deployment Configuration restore. Note: You need to use same … Read more
A new way of taking backup vCSA was introduced in vSphere 6.5 “File-Based Backups “using protocols of HTTP/HTTP,FTP/FTPS and SCP. This backup can be used to restore healthy vCSA.But this feature never felt complete as Scheduling this backup action was not possible OOB. We can always using script to perform but OOB it was not available.Below … Read more
Now you must be thinking, why am i writing about such a small and common topic which is widely covered by many bloggers.Reason: i was looking for after effects of disabling HA to a VM! didn’t find anyone mentioning about that. (Maybe i didn’t look hard enough) First, lets disable HA for a VM and … Read more
If an organization is using VMware products like vSphere, NSX, vRA etc there are higher chances vROps is also in place. As vROps solves monitoring and reporting requirement. There is another product which is kind of an underdog in the VMware portfolio in my opinion named VMware Log Insight but highly useful. We have both … Read more
One of my friends asked me to help on this topic. Thanks to him i got the idea for next blog. What is VMDirectPath I/O? This feature is available from vSphere 5.1 onwards. Using this feature, we can assign the HBA card available to ESXi host to Virtual machine. Benefit: Potentially improving performance. Disclaimer: Before … Read more