vCenter 8 – patch, minor upgrade, update
Kad I am upgrading from vCenter 8.0.0.10200 to 8.0.1.00300 ‘8.0u1c’ so going to update 1 version of vCenter 8. Remember to backup your vCenter and have a window as it will…
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Setting up vCenter High Availability (vcha) on vSAN
In this blog I am going through setting up vCenter HA on a 4 vSAN hosts cluster and testing failure by powering off the ESXi host with the primary vCenter…
Stun time for a virtual machine during vMotion
The stun time for example is when you vmotion a virtual machine from one host to another. This is the time when memory is completely copied over to the new…
Upgrade vCenter from 7 to 8 video
This video is a walk through of upgrading vcenter from 7 to 8, ensure your current vcenter is in a health state and you have backups. I have cutout the…
Create content library, import items and version control in vCenter 7
Content libraries are containers for VMs to use files like an ISO images or a templates. In this blog I will create a content library, put a windows 10 template…
Setup vSAN File Service for NFS and SMB shares on vCenter 7
The vSAN file service creates file shares on a vSAN datastore that clients can connect too and it supports SMB and NFS. This is a walk-through I did in my…
How to backup & restore a resource pool in vCenter 7
I am logged into vCenter and I have a few resource pools with a virtual machine in one BACKUP THE RESOURCE POOL login to vCenter > click your cluster >…
Installation of vCenter 8 walk-through
Download vCenter iso https://customerconnect.vmware.com/en/downloads/details?downloadGroup=VC800&productId=1345&rPId=95214 Run the iso Open the vcsa-ui-installer directory Open the win32 folder – since I am running it from a windows machine Double click the installer.exe Click…
Unregister or remove an vCenter plugin
The below blog is a walk through of removing an unwanted plugin from vCenter this may because the application or virtual machine has been deleted and has left the plugin…