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
In the series of VMware component upgrade, next component i am upgrading is NSX for vSphere.In future posts, I am planning to cover migration of NSX-V to NSX -T and some use-cases. Current Version of NSX-V -> 6.4.0 Target Version of NSX-V-> 6.4.6 Important notes and prerequisites: If you have a cross-vCenter NSX environment, you … Read more
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
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
vRealize Operations Manager (vRops) as the name suggests is a monitoring tool from VMware, started as a virtualization specific but now it expands to all the dimensions of Datacenter and public Cloud. Personally its one of my favorite tools from VMware. i know you guys will talk about cost but here i am only referring … Read more
