VMware vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS) provides a centralized VM network administration and that eases the management burden by treating the network as an aggregated resource.vSphere distributed switch can be divided as two logical sections. 1.Data Plane2. Management Plane.Data Plane is responsible for packet switching, filtering, tagging etc…Management plane just provides the complete control structure to […]
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vSphere Distributed Switch – Configuration copies
I am not sure how VMware has plans on Vsphere standard switch’s (VSS) and vSphere distributed switch’s (VDS) future development.But definitely VDS has an edge over VSS. One of the main advantage of VDS is that, it maintains the same configuration across all the ESXi servers.You can also use VSS but it really difficult to […]
How to Deploy Openstack on VMware vCenter Server ?
KVM(Kernel based virtulization) is the default hypervisor on openstack cloud software but KVM may get heavy competition from VMware ESXi hypervisor in future.VMware’s self service functionality “vcloud director” may discontinued since openstack is gaining more market share on that place.In today’s virtulization market, VMware is king and its higly impossible to replace by openstack but […]
VMware OVF tool-How to convert OVA to OVF
Virtual appliance will be normally available on OVA format which is bundle of OVF(open virtualization format) and VMDK files. If you directly deploy OVA files from vCenter Client , it will fail 99% of times. So better you need to extract the OVA files as OVF or need to convert as VMX format to deploy […]
How to Configure DRS cluster on ESXi ?
Configuring the DRS (Distributed Resource Scheduler) cluster is simple task in VMware if you have already worked on legacy clusters like veritas cluster.In a order to obtain the cluster-level resource management ,you need to create the DRS cluster. DRS cluster is nothing but a bunch of ESX/ESXi Psychical servers.Once you have added the ESXi or ESX […]
How to Create Datastore using ISCSI LUNS on VMware?
Once you have configured the ISCSI storage on VMware ESXi, you can start creating new datastore using those ISCSI LUNS. By default ,the wizard will try to create filesystem type as VMFS5 and this filesystem can be able to support up to 2TB LUNS. If you want that datastore to be accessed across VMware ESX/ESXi […]
How to get VMware ESXi and VCenter License keys ?
Managing the license on VMware ESxi and VCenter is one of main job for system administrator.After the installation of the product, you may need to add the new license to increase the capacity and you may need to remove the old license keys from the those products. Sometimes you may need to pull out the existing […]
Unable to Power off Virtual Machine on ESXi 5.5 host
In some rare scenarios where you can’t even power off the virtual machine on VMware ESXi. This happens if the virtual host lost the I/O path or some issues related to I/O subsystems.In this situation,when you tried to power off the virtual machine,you will get error messages like “The operation can’t be allowed at the […]
Configuring VMware ESXi virtual machine console – VNC ?
In VMware ESXi 5.5 ,you can use VNC client to connect virtual hardware console for Solaris,Linux and windows guest operating systems by enabling VNC server. So that you can take the virtual machine consoles using any VNC viewer and no need to login to VSphere Client for any guest OS consoles .This is really good […]
How to Upload files to ESXI DataStore using Web-Client?
To recover the virtual machines on VMware ESXi , you need the installation DVD copy of it.Not all the time you can relay on the VMware snapshot to recover the guest OS and that is not a good practice. If you have the copy of installation DVD , you can recover those virtual machines from […]