How to Implement & Configure Runecast with vCSA and NSX?

Scope of this blog post is to implement Runecast Version: 4.5.0.0 with vCenter 6.7 U3 and NSX 6.4.6 in my lab environment.Test the strength and capabilities for Predictive analytics & security compliance!Upcoming posts will cover – How to fix reported issues. To be frank, i didn’t anticipate that this implementation and configuration would be this … Read more

Home Lab for VMware based Cloud

I switched my job in March 2020, right in the middle of pandemic with lot of excitement for my new endeavour. During pandemic, i thought the best way to utilize my spare time is to build my new home lab which will help me to explore new products/features of VMware and some other technologies as … Read more

Converge vCenter with External PSC to vCenter with Embedded PSC (vSphere 6.7 U2 or above)

Continuing the last post, now we will be converging vCenter Server with External PSC to vCenter server with Embedded PSC using vSphere Client.We can still use the scripted procedure which was available in vSphere 6.7 U1 but for the ease of demonstration i am using vSphere 6.7 U2 with vSphere client (GUI). Important Notes and … Read more

vCenter + PSC -> Upgrade from 6.5 to 6.7

In the series of VMware Component upgrade, Next component we are going to reflect on is “vCenter Server 6.5 (vCSA) with External Platform Service Controller (PSC)”. vCenter 6.7 onward, the topology of External PSC is depreciated. Hence we will work on convergence in next post. Final Target topology is depicted below: Current Topology –> Target … Read more

Disable vSphere HA for a Virtual Machine!

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