Year: 2024
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Getting Useful vSAN Details with PowerCLI
Reading Time: 4 minutesGetting Useful vSAN Details with PowerCLI aims to get useful vSAN details or information in a vSAN-enabled cluster. Powershell is a powerful tool embedded in the majority of Windows installations. VMware PowerCLI is a command-line and scripting tool built on Windows PowerShell. It provides more than 800 cmdlets for managing and automating VMware vSphere,…
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Checking Thick-Provisioned Disks with PowerCLI in a vSAN Cluster
Reading Time: 4 minutesChecking Thick-Provisioned Disks with PowerCLI in a vSAN Cluster aims to show thick-provisioned disks using the PowerCLI. First and Foremost, What are Thin-Provisioned and Thick-Provisioned Disks? A thin-provisioned disk is a virtual disk that allocates storage space as needed. Initially, it appears as if the full disk size is available, but it…
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What is vSphere vMotion?
Reading Time: 6 minutes“What is vSphere vMotion?” is an article that explains vSphere vMotion and provides some important details about this process. About VM Migration Migration means moving a Virtual Machine (VM) from one ESXi host, datastore, or vCenter Server instance to another ESXi host, datastore, or vCenter Server instance. In this context, a migration…
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Getting the SSH RSA Key Fingerprint and SSL Thumbprint of an ESXi Host
Reading Time: 3 minutesGetting the SSH RSA Key Fingerprint and SSL Thumbprint of an ESXi Host is an article that aims to collect SSH and SSL details used during the VCF management domain bring-up process. What is the SSH RSA Key Fingerprint? It is like a unique identifier for an SSH public key. A fingerprint…
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VMware Cloud Build Deployment Steps
Reading Time: 4 minutesVMware Cloud Build Deployments Steps is an article that outlines all the necessary steps to deploy the VMware Cloud Builder VM and bring up the management domain. Deployment Overview of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) The deployment of VMware Cloud Foundation is automated by the VMware Cloud Builder. It deploys the management domain…
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What is VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)?
Reading Time: 3 minutesVMware Cloud Foundation is the next-generation VMware cloud platform for traditional and modern applications. It is based on a proven and comprehensive software-defined stack, including VMware vSphere (ESXi + vCenter), VMware vSAN, VMware NSX, VMware vSphere with Tanzu, and the VMware Aria Suite. With this software-based stack, VMware Cloud Foundation provides a…
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How to Administratively Disable a BGP Peer on NSX
Reading Time: 4 minutesHow to Administratively Disable a BGP Peer on NSX is an article that aims to show how to disable a BGP peer administratively. Disabling a BGP peer to stop the neighborhood between them can be helpful or necessary in some situations. For instance, the Tier-0 gateway has two BGP neighbors in the…
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Creating an NFS Share in the vSAN File Services
Reading Time: 7 minutesCreating an NFS Share in the vSAN File Services article shows how to create and mount an NFS share. We will create it in the vSAN File Services and mount it in a PhotonOS client VM. First and Foremost, What is an NFS Share? NFS is an acronym for Network File System.…
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Creating a Custom vSphere Alarm
Reading Time: 4 minutesCreating a Custom vSphere Alarm will show all the necessary steps to create a custom vSphere Alarm to monitor the CPU usage of all virtual machines. First Things First, What is an Alarm? An alarm is a notification sent in response to an event or condition with an object in the inventory.…
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Working with a vSphere Resource Pool
Reading Time: 7 minutesWorking with a vSphere Resource Pool is an article that briefly explains vSphere Resource Pools and provides some examples and case uses. First and foremost, what is a vSphere Resource Pool? vSphere Resource Pools allow you to delegate control over the resources of a host or a cluster. When we talk about…
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What is a vSAN ESA Storage Pool?
Reading Time: 4 minutesThis article aims to show some details of the Storage Pool – the logical unit used by the vSAN ESA to group the disk into an ESXi host and store the vSAN components. First and Foremost, What is the vSAN ESA? vSAN ESA is an acronym for Express Storage Architecture. vSAN Express…
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Comparing vSAN Architectures OSA x ESA
Reading Time: 2 minutesComparing vSAN Architectures OSA x ESA is an article comparing both vSAN architectures OSA and ESA. First and Foremost, What is vSAN ESA? OSA is an acronym for Original Storage Architecture. It is the original vSAN architecture released when vSAN was made. ESA is an acronym for Express Storage Architecture. It is…