Redundancy is much more important in virtualization environments since you never know how many virtual components will be impacted if you loose one physical hardware part.When its comes to VMware networking , you can share a single vmnic to N-number of virtual hosts.So one of the physical interface failure could cause big outage on the […]
VMware – How to Migrate VM’s from DVswitch to vSwitch ?
Most of the time we will be in a situation to Create a new vSphere distributed switch and migrating VM’s to it.But in rare cases , you may need to migrate the VM’s back to vSphere standard switch from vSphere distributed switch.These kind of situation arise when you don’t want to renew your vSphere Enterprise […]
How to Migrate the VM’s to vSphere Distributed Switch ?
When it comes to VMware networking , you should know about VSS (vSphere Standard Switch) and VDS (vSphere Distributed Switch). This article is going to demonstrate the migration of virtual machines from VSS (vSphere Standard Switch) to VDS (vSphere Distributed Switch). First we will see why do we need to virtualize the networking in VMware environment.The virtual […]
How to Create a vSphere Distributed switch and Port Group ?
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 […]
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 Deploy and configure vCenter Appliance 5.5 ?
VMware has decided to not depend on any big player in the virtualization market.The main intention is that vmware don’t want others to steal their innovation,ideas and their robust technologies. In last VMworld conference also they haven’t invite Microsoft and citrix. Currently most of vcenter servers are running on Microsoft windows 2008 servers . This […]
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 […]
Oracle VM SPARC – LDOM configuration Backup and Restore
Oracle VM for SPARC configuration can be backed up in XML file and it can be restored it whenever required.This configuration backup will be very useful for future rebuilding. It also provides the option to take the backup of particular domain and that can be restored using ldm add-domain command.In this article we will how […]