Author: Dr. Pranay Jha
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Cross The Table | Performance Monitoring Deep Dive of Windows Operating System | By Hariom Aarya
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What is EVC (Enhanced vMotion Compatibility)
EVC is short for Enhanced vMotion Compatibility. EVC allows you to migrate virtual machines between different generations of CPUs. EVC provide enhanced vMotion compatibility. With this feature in VMware vSphere virtualization, Virtual Machines(VMs) could be move between ESXi hosts on different CPUs. With EVC we could mix older and newer server generations in the same…
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Learning Modules on VMware HCX(Hybrid Cloud Extension) for Beginners
Good Day All! Hope you are enjoying the Virtual learning at Cloud Pathshala. In continuous to our different modules on several topics, here I am going to bring a new module which is VMware HCX. In last couple of days, I was working on VMware HCX(Hybrid Cloud Extension) to migrate our datacenter workload from on-premises…
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Understand L1 Terminal Fault (L1TF) – Impact and Mitigation Plan for VMware Admins
Overview of L1TF Vulnerabilities: – Intel has disclosed on 14th Aug 2018 new class of three CPU speculative-execution vulnerabilities within its server, client and workstation processors, known as “L1 Terminal Fault (L1TF)” which can occur on past and current Intel processors (from at least 2009 – 2018) The processor vulnerability goes by L1TF, L1 Terminal…
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vSphere 6.7 ICM – Topic 9.1 – Explain the vSphere HA architecture
Downtime is something which always costs to company. VMware helps to reduce downtime at each layer. Component Level (NIC multi-pathing ,storage multi-pathing) Server level(vMotion and DRS) Storage level (sDRS) Similarly vSphere HA provides a base level of protection for your virtual machines by restarting virtual machines in the event of a host failure. vSphere HA…
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What is ESXi Direct Console User Interface (DCUI)
Overview (VMware):- Below mentioned steps will provide an overview of the VMware vSphere Host Direct Console User Interface (DCUI). 1. The DCUI is a menu-based interface that is accessed from the host console. 2. Used to configure ESXi running on vSphere hosts. 3. Once connected with vSphere host console on top we could see the…
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How to Assign License Key in vCenter Server 6.5
Please follow mentioned steps Login to Virtual Center using Web or vSphere Client. On top of console, you can see the note saying that licenses in our inventory either expired or not available. Go to Home > Click on Licenses under Administration Tab Click on Manage your Licenses in Getting Started Tab or Go to Licenses Tab. Click on + icon to Create New…
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How to reset or configure iLO password via ESXi shell
Please follow below steps: a. Login into the ESXi shell via putty. b. Go to the directory /opt/hp/tools/ c. Run the command #./hponcfg -w ilo.xml (Where ilo.xml is the file where ”-w’ switch write the configuration of ilo) d. Edit the file ilo.xml using vi editor and fill the highlighted entry with requisites details (i.e…
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Learn HCX – Topic 10- How to Run Test Fail-over for Virtual Machine using HCX
In last blog we protected your virtual machine, now we will perform test fail over of your virtual machine. When you are ready to run test fail over, log in to your Cloud HCX manager and go to Services tab. On left hand side you will find disaster recovery option, click on disaster recovery and…
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Learn HCX – Topic 10- How to Run Test Fail-over for Virtual Machine using HCX
In last blog we protected your virtual machine, now we will perform test fail over of your virtual machine. When you are ready to run test fail over, log in to your Cloud HCX manager and go to Services tab. On left hand side you will find disaster recovery option, click on disaster recovery and…
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Learning Modules on Kubernetes for Beginners
Good Day All! Hope you are enjoying your weekend. In last couple of days, I was exploring Kubernetes in my Lab environment. I explored many new things as a beginner. I tried to gather all W-H questions which may ask or come into your mind if you are thinking to start Kubernetes. Based on that,…
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How to Install Kubernetes on Windows 10 with Hyper-v using Minikube| Learn Kubernetes – Part 6
We are all set with the theoretical concepts of Kubernetes. Now we are going to take you through setting up Minikube on your Windows 10 Pro machine with Hyper-V. This will setup up a basic platform for Kubernetes called Minikube. This is one of the Installation Model we discussed in last article of “Getting Start…
Architect’s Toolkit
PJ’s Tools
VMware Cloud Foundation
- VCF Documentation
- VCF 9 Planning & Preparation Workbook
- VCF Bill of Materials (BoM)
- VMware Compatibility Guide
- VMware Interoperability Matrix
- VMware Configuration Maximums
- VMware Ports & Protocols
- VMware Hands-on Labs
- RVTools Download
Nutanix
AI & Cloud-Native Platform
- NVIDIA Build (Model Catalog)
- NVIDIA AI Enterprise Reference Architecture
- NVIDIA NIM Performance Benchmarking
- NVIDIA NGC Catalog
- NeMo Microservices Helm Chart
- Helm Charts Repository
- Hugging Face Models
Architecture & Design
About the Author
Dr Pranay Jha
Dr. Pranay Jha is a Cloud and AI Consultant with 18+ years of experience in hybrid cloud, virtualization, and enterprise infrastructure transformation. He specializes in VMware technologies, multi-cloud strategy, and Generative AI solutions. He holds a PhD in Computer Applications with research focused on Cloud and AI, has published multiple research papers, and has been a VMware vExpert since 2016 and a VMUG Community Leader.
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