Redhat Linux YUM repository is useful for installing packages , updating the packages and upgrade the operating system with automatic dependency selection method. In larger environment , we need to setup the repository via HTTP to make the YUM repository to be available over network. At the same time , you might have different RHEL […]
How to Upgrade Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0 to 7.5 ? What’s New in RHEL 7.5
Redhat Enterprise Linux 7.5 released on April 2018. Redhat is continuously showing more interest in Microsoft Products integration to increase RHEL foot print in Azure cloud computing platform. Redhat Claims that “Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 brings you enhanced interoperability, storage efficiency on-premise and in the cloud, and multi-platform support for building network-intensive applications, massively scalable data […]
Farewell to Windows vCenter Server -All New vSphere 6.7
VMware vCenter Server 6.7.0 released on April 2018 and this is going to be the last release for windows based vCenter. vCenter Server Appliance is the default deployment in vCenter Server 6.7 onwards. In this release , there are a lot of new enhancements in vCenter appliance and monitoring options have been improved. The vSphere Client […]
Configure ISCSI Adapter in ESXi hosts – VMware vSphere 6.5 – Web-client
Configure iSCSI Adapter in ESXi hosts – VMware vSphere 6.5 using Web client. To get access to the iSCSI storage server, ESXi hosts must have the iSCSI initiator adapters must be configured to access the iSCSI target server. This article will quickly walk through that how to add the iSCSI initiators, how to add the […]
Create & Configure vSphere Standard switch – VMware vSphere 6.5
Create a new vsphere standard switch and configure to provide the network access to VM and ESXi hosts. The standard vsphere switch can bridge traffic internally between virtual machines in the same VLAN and link to external networks via uplinks. vSphere Standard Switch is very similar to a physical Ethernet switch. Virtual machine network adapters […]
VMware vSphere 6.5 – Benefits of Distributed vswitch (vDS )
In VMware vSphere 6.5, vSphere standard switch (vSS) almost the same as what the physical switch offers in the real world. Then what’s the real need of vSphere distributed switch (vDS)? vSphere Distributed switch feature is not coming with vSphere standard license too. You need to buy the vSphere enterprise plus license to get this […]
How to create a port group on vSphere Standard switch
How to create a port group for vSphere standard switch ? Why do we need port groups ? Port group is responsible to make the network connectivity between Virtual Machine and vSwitch. It also allows to segregate the network by creating multiple port groups based on the VM environment (Ex: PROD , QUT , TEST). […]
VMware vSphere 6.5 Upgrade – Path Finder
VMware vSphere 6.5 has released last year but still many of the environments are running with vSphere 5.5 or vSphere 6.0. This article will try to provide more information about VMware vSphere 6.5 upgrade resources and other available utilities in the market to simplify the upgrade work plan and execution. This article also covers the […]
Veeam Availability Orchestrator – Managed DR Solution
Veeam is known for Backup and Replication , Monitoring solutions and workload management products.The most recent offerings from Veeam is “Veeam Availability Orchestrator” (VAO ) for Managed disaster recovery. VAO supports VMware vSphere 5.x & 6.x environments which occupies 90% of data-centers in the world. VAO satisfies compliance requirements with automated documentation that makes it easy to […]
Migrate VMs between vCenters – Cross vCenter Workload Migration
How to migrate VM’s between two vCenter servers ? Is it possible ? Nothing is impossible in VMware world. VMware flings community has developed a cool tool is called “Cross vCenter Workload Migration” utility. Using this utility , you could simply migrate the VM from one vCenter server to another vCenter without any downtime using […]