Tag: vsphere
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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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vSphere 6.7 ICM – Topic 4.8 – Create a custom role in vCenter Server
vCenter server has predefined roles to provide access to admins. However, You can create custom role to define specific permission to VMware admins. For example, if L1 team wants to login to virtual center, you can specify roles as per the tasks assigned. Continuing to the learning of vSphere 6.7 – Install, Configure, and Manage…
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vSphere 6.7 ICM – Topic 7.5 – Add a hot pluggable device
Continuing to the learning of vSphere 6.7 – Install, Configure, and Manage modules, we are going to cover below points in this blog. Point to cover:- Verify hot-pluggable features Enable hot-pluggable feature for CPU and Memory This blog will help you to enable hot-pluggable feature to cpu and memory. Lets know more about this feature.…
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vSphere 6.7 ICM – Topic 4.6 – Create custom inventory tags
You create custom inventory to categorize your inventory and objects in vSphere environment. You can use these tags when search any object in inventory. Continuing to the learning of vSphere 6.7 – Install, Configure, and Manage modules, we are going to cover below points in this blog. Points to Cover: – Create custom inventory tags…
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vSphere 6.7 ICM – Topic 7.6 – Dynamically increase the size of a virtual disk
Continuing to the learning of vSphere 6.7 – Install, Configure, and Manage modules, we are going to cover below points in this blog. Points to cover: – Increase the size of a Virtual Disk One of the most common question for beginners is “How to increase disk size for virtual machine?” so this blog will…
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vSphere 6.7 ICM – Topic 3.1 – Create, Provision, and remove Virtual Machine
In your daily responsibilities as a VMware Admin, You must know how to create Virtual machine. Topic 3.1 explains in detail how to accomplish these requirements. You must login as administrator or should have the permissions to create, provision and remove VM. Below mentioned image shows the Root access through direct ESXI host through webclient.…
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vSphere 6.7 ICM – Topic 4.5 – Add data center, organizational objects, and hosts to vCenter Server
Continuing to the learning of vSphere 6.7 – Install, Configure, and Manage modules, we are going to cover below points in this blog. Points to Cover: – Create a Datacenter Add ESXi Host in vCenter Server Create a Cluster 1. Datacenter What is Datacenter? Datacenter is a container which keeps all the inventory objects of…
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vSphere 6.7 ICM – Topic 7.1 – Use templates and cloning to deploy new virtual machines
In topic 7.3, We are done with clone of virtual machine. Now we will see how to build template in VMware. We have “clone of test VM-01” virtual machine which we will be converting into template. Points to Cover: – Convert a Virtual Machine to Template Deploy a Virtual Machine using Template Convert a Template…
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vSphere 6.7 ICM – Topic 7.3 – Create an instant clone of a virtual machine
Creating a same copy of existing virtual machine is called Clone. Here we are going to learn , how to clone the virtual machine in vSphere 6.7. Points to Cover: – Clone Virtual Machine Steps to Create Clone of Virtual Machine: – You need to login to your virtual center using web client and scroll…
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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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