Category: VMware & Cloud
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vSphere 6.7 ICM – Topic 6.1 – Configure and Add Datastores.
Hope you all learning and sharing! In our daily responsibilities, we get at the point where we need to configure and add datastores before we can put the VMs. This blog is beneficial for those who want to know the configuration and addition of datastores(storage) to ESXi hosts. In our LAB, we have storage over…
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vSphere 6.7 ICM – Topic 2.8 – Identify the advantages of ESXi Quick Boot
ESXi Quick Boot has introduced vSphere 6.7 and it’s really an awesome feature for Vmware admins. This feature helps on restarting the ESXi hypervisor without rebooting underlying physical host . Quick Boot eliminates the time-consuming device initialization and self-testing procedures shortening the time. Quick Boot also supports patching and upgrades of vSphere hosts through vSphere…
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vSphere 6.7 ICM – Module 9.2 – Configure and manage a vSphere HA cluster
You can easily configure HA cluster by connecting to virtual center web client. Before enabling HA cluster you should refer best practices for HA cluster by VMware . Best Practices for VMware vSphere® High Availability Clusters Continuing to the learning of vSphere 6.7 – Install, Configure, and Manage modules, we are going to cover below…
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vSphere 6.7 ICM – Module 9.2 – Configure and manage a vSphere HA cluster
You can easily configure HA cluster by connecting to virtual center web client. Before enabling HA cluster you should refer best practices for HA cluster by VMware . Best Practices for VMware vSphere® High Availability Clusters Continuing to the learning of vSphere 6.7 – Install, Configure, and Manage modules, we are going to cover below…
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vSphere 6.7 ICM – Module 9 – vSphere HA, vSphere Fault Tolerance, and Protecting Data
We are going to explore Module 9 of vSphere 6.7 – Install, Configure, Manage. It will cover following topics. Click on links which you want to explore. 9.1-Explain the vSphere HA architecture 9.2-Configure and manage a vSphere HA cluster 9.3-Use vSphere HA advanced parameters 9.4-Enforce infrastructural or intra-app dependencies during failover 9.5-Describe vSphere HA heartbeat…
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vSphere 6.7 ICM -Topic 7.9 – Create and manage virtual machine snapshots
You can create snapshot to keep a copy of the virtual machine’s disk file at a given point in time. Basically Snapshots provide a feasibility to restore a virtual machine to a particular point in time when a failure or system error occurs. Continuing to the learning of vSphere 6.7 – Install, Configure, and Manage…
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vSphere 6.7 ICM – Topic 2.7 – Install and configure ESXi host settings
Whenever you think about virtualization, first thing comes into mind that where shall I store my virtual machines. ESXi is a solution for your question. ESXi is a Type 1 hypervisor which establish virtualization layer between Virtual machines and Physical hardware. You install ESXi host on a bare metal physical server. It provides compute resources…
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vSphere 6.7 ICM – Module 4 – vCenter Server
We are going to explore Module 4 of vSphere 6.7 – Install, Configure, Manage. It will cover below topics. Click on links which you want to explore. 4.1 – Describe the vCenter Server architecture 4.2 – Discuss how ESXi hosts communicate with vCenter Server 4.3 – Access and configure vCenter Server Appliance 4.4 – Use…
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vSphere 6.7 ICM – Module 3 – Creating Virtual Machines
In this module, we are going to discuss about Creating Virtual Machines. You will get to know about tasks which we perform on daily basis and how to address daily vmware admin tasks. We are going to cover following topics. Click on below links. 3.1 – Create, provision, and remove a virtual machine 3.2 –…
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vSphere 6.7 ICM – Topic 4.3 – Access and configure vCenter Server Appliance
vCenter Server is a centralized management point for your Virtual Environment. It helps us to manage the entire objects from one place. In this topic, we are going to cover deployment and configuration of vCenter Server Appliance 6.7 Points to Cover: – Deployment of VCSA Configuration of VCSA Please refer to the link below which…
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vSphere 6.7 ICM – Topic 7.8 – Perform vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion migrations
Storage vMotion helps you to migrate a virtual machine and its disk files from one datastore to another while the virtual machine is running. vMotion helps you to migrate a virtual machine from one ESXi host to another ESXi host while virtual machine is running. Continuing to the learning of vSphere 6.7 – Install, Configure,…
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vSphere 6.7 ICM – Topic 3.3 – Describe how to import a virtual appliance OVF template
Good day all! this blog is exclusively for deploying VMs’ through OVF/OVA. It covers screenshots and step-by-step guide. Points to Cover: – Deploy a Virtual Machine from an OVF/OVA. 1. Deploy a Virtual Machine from an OVF/OVA Steps to Deploy OVF: To start with, Login to webclient. In our LAB, we have direct root access…
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