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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Cloud ends Data-center Virtualization ? VMware’s Future ?
Does Cloud end the Data-center virtualization journey? We could see the buzz around cloud technologies from the past few years and Cloud service providers also keep posting great revenues. Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure are leading cloud service providers in IaaS. Forrester predicts that along with Google cloud platform, these three companies will hold 76% […]
VMware vSphere 6.5 – Features – Quick Walk-through
VMware vSphere 6.5 – Features – Quick Walk-through. This article is intended to share some of the impressive features of VMware vSphere 6.5. VMware has worked on security areas, User interfaces , Containers and vCenter appliance on their lasted package “VMware vSphere 6.5” and it’s worth upgrading to that. You have to obtain new licenses to deploy […]
Creating Datastore – VMware vSphere 6.5 – Web-client
Create datastore on VMware vSphere 6.5 using the HTML based Web client. To store the virtual machines, you must have the storage repositories to configured. You can set up datastores on any SCSI-based storage devices that the host discovers, including Fibre Channel, iSCSI, and local storage devices. In this demonstration, we will choose one of the […]
VMware Products – Upgrade and Licensing Requirements
VMware Products – Upgrade and Licensing Requirements. You must keep upgrading to the new version of the existing VMware products that is used in your environment . Otherwise , VMware software might became absolute and upgrade may not be possible at one stage. Here , we will discuss more about VMware vSphere and other infrastructure […]
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 […]
Meltdown and Spectre Vulnerabilities – Big Threats
Meltdown and Spectre Vulnerabilities have made 80% of servers as Vulnerable in overnight, thanks to Google Project Zero team and other security researchers who have brought such a worst vulnerabilities to the world (At least now). Meltdown vulnerability basically melts security boundaries which are normally enforced by the hardware (CPU). Spectre name is based on the root cause, “speculative […]