Author: Danilo

How to Deploy VMware Aria Operations for Logs is an article that explains how to deploy and configure VMware Aria Operations for Logs (formerly vRealize Log Insight). Firstly, What is vRealize Log Insight? vRealize Log Insight provides intelligent log management for infrastructure and applications in any environment. This highly scalable log management solution delivers intuitive, actionable dashboards, sophisticated analytics, and broad thirty-day extensibility across physical, virtual, and cloud environments. Source: https://docs.vmware.com/en/vRealize-Log-Insight/index.html Based on my Internet research, I would like to share my findings here: If you need to know more details about VMware Aria Operations for Logs, you can read…

How to Restore NSX Manager from Backup is an article that explains the process of restoring the NSX Manager from a valid backup. Backup… Backup… Backup… this is an important subject that always we are talking about. In a practical way, few people really are careful about this. For the NSX-T environment, doing NSX Manager backup is mandatory in my opinion. So, if you do not make regular backups of your NSX Manager cluster, please, stop now and do it now! There are a lot of Internet articles about how to configure NSX Manager backup. Also, we have an article…

Install VMware PowerCLI Offline is an article that explains all procedures to install the VMware PowerCLI from the Offline package. Basically, VMware PowerCLI is a command-line and scripting tool built on PowerShell and provides more than 7000 cmdlets for managing and automating VMware vSphere, VMware Cloud Director, vRealize Operations Manager, vSAN, VMware NSX-T, VMware Cloud Services, VMware Cloud on AWS, VMware HCX, VMware Site Recovery Manager, and VMware Horizon environments. So, in my opinion, every “VMware” Guy needs to know a little about VMware PowerCLI 🙂 In this article, we will explain how to download and install the VMware PowerCLI…

VM Snapshots Basics is an article that explains what is a VM snapshot and how it works in a vSphere Environment. What is a Snapshot? Basically, a Snapshot is a function that can be used to maintain or preserve the state and data of a virtual machine at a specific point in time (PIT): A virtual machine provides several operations for creating and managing snapshots and snapshot chains. These operations let you create snapshots, revert to any snapshot in the chain, and remove snapshots. You can create extensive snapshot trees. Important: Snapshot is not a BACKUP. So, YOU SHOULD NOT…

Using the vim-cmd Tool is an article that explains some useful commands with the tool vim-cmd for troubleshooting hosts and VMs in your virtual environment. Basically, the VMware Infrastructure Management command (vim-cmd) is a CLI (Command Line Interface) tool for managing ESXi hosts and their VMs from the command line. Some important things about this tool: For curiosity, the command “/sbin/vim-cmd” is a symbolic link for the hostd daemon: To see all vim-cmd categories: Under each category, we can see the available subcommands: Why should I use the vim-cmd tool? So, the vim-cmd tool is an excellent tool for troubleshooting…

Benchmarking between LSI SAS x PVSCSI Controller is an article that shows a simple performance comparison between LSI SAS x VMware Paravirtual Controller. So, we have an article that explains how to change the disk controller from the LSI SAS SCSI controller to the VMware Paravirtual controller. If you need to check more details about that, click here. Our goal here is to show a simple benchmarking related to performance when a Windows VM is using the LSI SAS SCSI controller and VMware Paravirtual SCSI controller. We will do some performance tests in a VM that is using both controllers,…