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 6.5
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]