VMware ESX is an enterprise-level computer virtualization product offered by VMware, Inc. ESX is a component of VMware’s larger offering, VMware Infrastructure, which adds management and reliability services to the core server product. VMware is replacing the original ESX with ESXi
We have planned to do interoperability testing of our product Nimesa Cloud Data Protection with vSphere 6.7, In my lab, I had one ESXi 6.5 which I planned to upgrade to ESXi 6.7 In this blog, I am explaining about…
If you’re looking into data protection solutions you’re probably have heard the phrase “3-2-1 backup”. You’ll hear it from most IT consultants, professionals as well as many backup vendors and admins. Every admin should have backups. This 3-2-1 principle works…
With vSphere 6.7 web services SOAP API includes the creation date of a Virtual Machine and will be persisted with the life-cycle of the VM itself. You can get it from Virtual Machine -> Config -> createDate. Earlier to 6.7,…
Recently My client have been having some issues with the vSphere web client plugins, they were getting #1009 error often Initially i googled and try to find the solution and root cause, many blogs are suggesting disable the installed plugins…
I’ve been developing an automation scripts to provision and expand VMFS Datastore. Expand not Extent… I increased the storage volume size and need to increase the size of VMFS datastore without affording the downtime Here is the VIjava / YAVI Java code for…
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…
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…
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…
