Dell EMC NetWorker provides the ability to perform virtual machine backup and recovery by using the NetWorker VMware Protection solution with the vProxy appliance. It does support vSAN datastore for its virtual appliance known as vProxy, it supports running image backups and restores virtual machines running on vSAN datastores. NetWorker directly manages the vProxy appliances […]
VMware vSphere 6.0
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 […]
govmomi – Installing and configuring govc-cli for vSphere
govmomi is a “Go” library for interacting with VMware vSphere APIs (ESXi and/or vCenter) and it’s built using VMware vSphere SDK. govmomi project has more than 1000 GitHub stars and used by many opensource projects including terraform, Kubernetes, kops etc. govc is a vSphere CLI built on top of govmomi. It’s written in Go language […]
VMware Template Automation Using Packer – Redhat/CentOS
VMware template creation can be automated using packer. VMware Virtual Machine deployments are very faster because of the template based VM build. But due to rapid development and fast-paced Operating system releases, we might need to build multiple templates and keep it ready for deployment. A customer might ask different operating system release and you […]
Packer Automation – Build Redhat/CentOS VM on VMware vSphere
In this article, we will be walking through the building of Redhat Enterprise Linux 7/CentOS 7 VM using ISO on VMware vSphere environment. Packer is very useful to build your base images on the cloud and on-premise. Packer is an opensource tool and developed by HashiCorp. HashiCorp owns very famous tools like Vagrant, Consul, and […]
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 […]
Create SSO Users using ssh – dir-cli – VCSA 6.5
Create SSO users using SSH session on VCSA 6.5 with help of dir-cli utility. I had faced the strange issue after VCSA 6.5 deployment on My LAB that SSO account was not created. Could be my mistake and haven’t followed the best practice for the VCSA 6.5 deployment. But I have figured out the way […]
Vulnerabilities – How to Fix Meltdown and Spectre on VMware vSphere ?
VMware vSphere also affected by multiple vulnerabilities since its uses Intel/AMD platforms. VMware vSphere has multiple layers of virtualization and sadly, you should apply/update the patches for all the components which includes Operating systems, virtual machines, virtual appliances, hypervisors, server firmware, and CPU microcode. Operating system patches can reduce the risk with help of hypervisor patches without […]
VMware vSphere with Operations Management – Licensing / Pricing
VMware vSphere is an industry-leading virtualization platform which is used 80% of datacenter around the world. VMware’s virtualization has made X86 server revolution and maximizes hardware savings through higher capacity utilization and consolidation ratios. This article will walk through about VMware Licensing, prizing and version upgrade entitlements. VMware Claims, [box type=”success” align=”” class=”” width=””]On […]
CLOUD WAR – Openstack vs VMware vSphere vs Amazon AWS
Cloud War or Data-center war ? There is a healthy competition out in the market to reduce the overall operating cost on IT. Companies are benefited with the cloud revolution, Virtualization and automation. Most of the organisations are moving towards asset free to reduce their additional investments on IT equipment. But all the organizations can’t just […]