vCenter Upgrade
Ray Recently installed vCenter 8, and while poking around, I noticed the vCenter upgrade and noticed few nice features for vCenter upgrade in the UI Select available update. The new pop-up…
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VMware Integrated OpenStack Troubleshooting
Nick Deployment Troubleshooting Reference KB Article: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Integrated-OpenStack/7.2/com.vmware.openstack.admin.doc/GUID-7A75C738-EF08-4ADB-BE78-DCA60070E375.html Whenever you deploy VMware Integrated OpenStack there is always a chance that something may go wrong. This post is here to help diagnose and…
Setting up vCenter High Availability (vcha) on vSAN
Kader 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…
Installing VMware Integrated OpenStack on a Single Host Pt2 (NSX-T)
Now that we have our resource cluster created the next step will be to integrate NSX-T into the resource cluster, deploy our edges and create some OpenStack Specific Objects. Within…
Installing vCenter on a new vSAN environment OR your first host
So, the scenario is you have built your first ESXi host that will be a part of a vSAN cluster and you want to put that new vCenter you built…
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…