Representational State Transfer (REST) has gained widespread acceptance across the Web as a simpler alternative to other Web services ( SOAP and WSDL ). REST is an architecture style or design pattern used as a set of guidelines for creating…
VMware vCenter 5.1 and before the default behavior was to allow all domain admins to login and administrate your ESXi hosts. Once the 5.5 vCenter installed if you try and connect using a domain account you will get the error…
This is reference article for VMware ESXi 5.x logs, their locations and use-cases. Log File Location Description Troubleshooting ESXi Shell authentication success and failure Security DHCP client service, including discovery, address lease requests and renewals Networking ESXi…
VMware Vcenter 5.1 and before the default behaviour was to allow all domain admins to login and administrate your ESXi hosts. Once the 5.5 vCenter installed if you try and connect using a domain account you will get the error…
The OVF in vSphere is not just about deployment and packaging. There is also a runtime part, namely the OVF environment. This is a feature that has been around since the early days of vSphere 4.x, if not earlier which…
VMware Tools is a suite of utilities that enhances the performance of the virtual machine’s guest operating system and improves management of the virtual machine. For example, the following features are just some of the features that are available only…
This tutorial presumes that you understand what is a LAMP Server , how to deploy a web site and how to install software using Terminal and experience in running other Basic Terminal Commands. Root access To install any application you…
There are two ways to enable / diable VAAI plugin, One via command line and one via vSphere Client UI Using command line Login to ESXi using putty / terminal Use “esxcfg-advcfg” command to manage your VAAI settings To Check…
VAAI vStorage API for Array Integration (VAAI) is a technology that VMware makes available for storage vendors to offload the storage operation like cloning , space reservation from the ESX CPU to the storage array. What is VAAI? VMware vStorage…
