Microsoft Hyper-V is one of the popular hypervisors in modern data centers. It helps to host multiple virtual machines in single physical hardware to save space and power. Hyper-V provides flexibility to operate your workload in your private cloud environment in the most efficient way. It also supports the VDI environment which provides a centralized […]
VMware vSphere
BDRSuite – VM Backup – Protect mission-critical VMware vSphere
Due to rapid technological changes, Backup technologies should be smart enough to protect the data in an efficient manner. VMware vSphere is the most widely used hypervisor for virtualization. It supports both windows and Linux guest operating systems on the x86 hardware. BDRsuite is a robust, reliable, and scalable Backup & DR Solution for your […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
Configure ISCSI Adapter in ESXi hosts – VMware vSphere 6.5 – Web-client
Configure iSCSI Adapter in ESXi hosts – VMware vSphere 6.5 using Web client. To get access to the iSCSI storage server, ESXi hosts must have the iSCSI initiator adapters must be configured to access the iSCSI target server. This article will quickly walk through that how to add the iSCSI initiators, how to add the […]
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 […]