Virtualization helps to decouple the Operating systems and applications from the hardware layer. Virtualization is the process of creating a virtual or software-based representation like a virtual server, application, network, storage resources. Hypervisor is one of the most popular virtualizations technology for servers and operating systems. This enables the IT organization to run more than […]
RVTools 3.11.9 – Simple VMware vSphere Reporting Tool
RVTools is one of the promising reporting tools for VMware vSphere since 2008. It’s a windows based tool which requires .NET 4.6.1 framework to pull the virtual environments information using VI SDK. It supports all the version of the vSphere environment. It can directly connect with vCenter or ESXi (If standalone) to get all the […]
VMware vSphere – How to identify Distributed Switch ID / Portgroupkey ?
VMware vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS) provides a centralized interface to manage the virtual machine’s network for the entire datacenter. Unlike vSphere Standard Switch (VSS), Distributed Switch (VDS) shows the network as an aggregated resource. In VMware vSphere 6.7, VMware vCenter Server instance can support up to 128 VDS and each VDS can manage up to […]
VMware vSphere – How to break VCSA 6.5/6.7 root password ?
How to recover the lost vCenter Server Appliance(VCSA 6.5 & above) root password? The vCenter Server Appliance is a preconfigured Linux virtual machine. vSphere 6.7 U1 is the last release to include vCenter Server for Windows, which has been deprecated. vCenter Server Appliance is a very simple vCenter platform compares to the windows-based vC. Since vCenter server […]
VMware vSphere 6.x – Remove node from vSAN cluster
How to safely evacuate the node from the vSAN cluster on VMware vSphere? VMware vSAN is one of the low-cost storage solutions for startups and mid-size companies. vSAN eliminates the need of Fibre channel networks. It aggregates the local disks and provides the storage over the network. This article will walk through how to remove […]
VMware vSphere – How to Change VCSA 6.x IP address ?
How to change VCSA (vCenter Server Appliance) 6.x IP address? VMware vSphere 6.7 U1 is the last version which offers Windows-based vCenter Server. Going forward, we must start adapting in-house vCenter appliance which runs on VMware Photon OS (Linux Variant). VMware doesn’t recommend to change the vCenter appliance IP address. If FQDN is set as an […]
Ansible reboot module – Shutdown Command Not found on Linux
Ansible is a widely used configuration management tool. Opensource community and RedHat aggressively developing to create modules for each task. In Ansible 2.7, reboot module is responsible to reboot the host and wait to come back. But the Linux image development varies for each organization. In some environment, engineers might remove shutdown command from the […]
VMware vSphere – How to Remove Host from HA ?
How to remove ESXi node from vSphere HA? VMware vSphere HA (High Availablity) enables a server administrator to aggregate physical servers on the same to create a logical group called a high availability cluster. vSphere HA is responsible to restart the failed VM’s on other available ESXi nodes to reduce the application downtime. When you […]
VMware vSAN Lab – How to Create Fake SSD on VMware workstation?
VMware vSAN is a hyper-converged, widely used software-defined storage for a VMware vSphere environment. Using Nested virtualization, Many of us will try to practice vSAN Lab on VMware Workstation. In my old article, I have shared the trick to convert the Non-SSD to SDD disk by enabling the rule on ESXi. But this procedure is […]
How to Boost Ansible playbook Speed ?
How to increase the ansible playbook execution speed? One who is running the playbook against more than 100 hosts could witness the slowness if it’s not fine-tuned. Ansible has few configurable parameters which can reduce the playbook execution time significantly. As a result of the fine-tuning ansible, playbook execution time has been reduced from 4hours […]