VCP 6 Study Note – vCenter Overview
vCenter is primary management tool for vSphere admins. It provides: point of control for all components in vDC management functionalities and services rights, permission and roles management storage and resource…
VCP 6 Study Note – VM version and features
Source: KB 2051652 https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2051652 Version 11 (>= Esxi 6.0) Version 10 (>= Esxi 5.5) Version 9 (>= ESXi 5.1) Max memory (GB) 4080 1011 1011 Max logical processors 128 64…
VCP 6 Study Note – Logs purposes and locations
This is not only a study, this could be a rapid guide to identify logs locations and their purposes. Sources: KB 1021806 https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1021806 ESXi Source: https://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-60/index.jsp#com.vmware.vsphere.security.doc/GUID-F35D7005-58EB-48AC-99D5-B9942EB2A8EF.html VMkernel Location: /var/log/vmkernel.log Purpose:…
VCP 6 Study Note – Security Certificate
vSphere components use SSL to communicate securely with each other and with ESXi and is also used by vCenter services such as the vSphere Web Client for initial authentication to…
VPN Client with pfSense
In some situations it could happens to use a client vpn to access in some lan or network segment to manage or interacts with systems that are isolated from external…
VCP 6 Study Note – VM migration (Cold, vMotion, svMotion, EVC)
The added value for a server to be virtualized in a vSphere environment is the agility to move itself across physical environment with near zero downtime. vSphere started talking about…
VCP 6 Study Note – Multiple ways to install ESXi
All of us know the direct installation via media, which is the most used by many folks during “poor” cluster installation (up to 6 nodes installation). But in this post…
VCP 6 Study Note – Advanced Networking Concepts Part2 : Backup restore and recovery management
Backup and restore network configuration vSphere 5.1 and later enables you to backup and restore the configuration of a vSphere Distributed Switch. It’s possible to restore the virtual network configuration…
VCP 6 Study Note – Advanced Networking Concepts Part1 : Networking policies, LACP Support
I’m writing this post to highlight some advanced vSphere topics during my VCP6 Study. Sources for this post are: vSphere 6 Official Docs (https://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-60/index.jsp#com.vmware.vsphere.networking.doc/GUID-35B40B0B-0C13-43B2-BC85-18C9C91BE2D4.html) KB 2051826 https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2051826 KB 2034277 https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2034277…
Boring vSphere client issue on Windows 10
New vSphere version comes with a powerful web user interface, and this blog post could be “outdated”. But a great part of sysadmins, which use C# Client on Windows 10…