VMware vCenter offers services to enhance the reliability and manageability of a server deployment, such as:
VMotion — the capability to move a running virtual machine from one ESX host to another whilst the Operating System continues to run and service users(and faster than some other editions)
Storage VMotion — the capability to move a running virtual machine from one storage device to another whilst the Operating System is running
DRS (Distributed Resource Scheduler) — automatic load-balancing of an ESX cluster using VMotion
HA (High Availability) — in case of hardware failure in a cluster, the virtual servers will automatically restart on another host in the cluster
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, we can track the VM Creation Time using EventManager. We should create an EventFilterSpec to…
I recently had a demand to deploy an OVF (Open Virtualization Format is an open-source standard for packaging and distributing software applications for virtual machines) which is located on Datastore of ESXi Server. When you try to deploy from vSphere web client ( Flash / HTML) you can specify the OVF URL or the location accessible…
Recently, An Indiana hospital paid a ransom of $55,000 to get rid of ransomware that had infected its systems and was hindering operations. when attackers breached the network of Hancock Health, a regional hospital in the city of Greenfield, Indiana. Hancock Health CEO Steve Long said the hackers are believed to be in eastern Europe…
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 and try again. Later i read somewhere ( forget the link) , clearing cache would…
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 expanding the datastore View the code on Gist. [amazon_link asins=’B002SSBD8A’ template=’ProductLink’ store=’asvignesh-21′ marketplace=’IN’…
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 :The vSphere Client could not connect to “FQDN / IP”. You do not have permission…
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 vSphere Client could not connect to “FQDN / IP”. You do not have permission…
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 the Status esxcfg-advcfg -g (returnvalue 1 = enabled) ~ # esxcfg-advcfg -g /DataMover/HardwareAcceleratedMove Value of…