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 […]
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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 […]
VMware vSphere – Build VM using Terraform – Cent OS/RHEL (Redhat Linux)
This article will provide step by step procedure for building “CentOS” /”Redhat Linux” Virtual Machine using Terraform tool on the VMware vSphere environment. Terraform is an excellent tool to build VM’s on VMware vSphere environment. Terraform doesn’t require any dedicated host. You could download an opensource/free version of Terraform on your laptop or desktop 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 […]
Create & Configure vSphere Standard switch – VMware vSphere 6.5
Create a new vsphere standard switch and configure to provide the network access to VM and ESXi hosts. The standard vsphere switch can bridge traffic internally between virtual machines in the same VLAN and link to external networks via uplinks. vSphere Standard Switch is very similar to a physical Ethernet switch. Virtual machine network adapters […]
VMware vSphere 6.5 – Benefits of Distributed vswitch (vDS )
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 […]
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). […]
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 […]
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 […]