Tag: vsphere
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How VMware HA Works | Deep Dive
Overview of HA (High Availability): – When you creates HA cluster very first time, then Virtual Machines are configured with cluster default settings. VM Restart Priority Host Isolation Response VM Monitoring There is master host election when the cluster is first created. All other hosts are slaves. Master host is responsible for monitoring the host…
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Exploring VMware vSphere Platinum
Hey All, Good Day! I hope you are getting some fruitful articles over here. Today We are going to explore VMware vSphere Platinum and vSphere 6.7 Update 1 which VMware has introduced today itself. While checking the updates on Day 1 of VMworld 2018, I came to know of this announcement so thought to write…
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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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vSphere 6.7 ICM – Topic 6.5 – Put VMFS datastore in Maintenance Mode
Happy Thursday to all! Hope your learning is going just fine. Remember “First you learn and then you remove the letter “e” from word learn” ! This blog is mainly aiming on how to put a VMFS datastore in Maintenance mode. Points to Cover– How to put datastore maintenance mode. How to ensure that production…
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What is VMware vSphere Replication
VMware vSphere replication is a proprietary solution by VMware for data protection and disaster recovery of virtual machines. This is integrated with VMware vCenter Server, providing host-based, asynchronous replication of virtual machines. Major use cases for vSpehere Replication are data center migration and disaster recovery. Key benefits: >It comes as virtual appliance so it is…
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vSphere 6.7 ICM – Topic 5.3 – Compare vSphere distributed switches and standard switches
vSphere Standard Switch vs vSphere Distributed Switch
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vSphere 6.7 ICM – Topic 5.2 – Configure virtual switch security , traffic -shaping and load -balancing policies
Continuing to vSphere 6.7 Install, Configure, and Manage modules, today we are going to cover vSphere networking which is one of the tough parts to know for VMware admins and have lot of difficulties while applying the network policies. Points to Cover: – Understand Network Policies Security Polices Traffic Shaping Teaming & Failover Understand Load…
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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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