Author: Danilo
Danilo
Infrastructure Engineer with experience in Virtualization, Linux, Windows Server and learning automation using Python. DPC Virtual Tips was created to share practical tutorials, lab experiences and troubleshooting guides focused on enterprise infrastructure technologies.
How to install CentOS 7 is a practical guide that explains how to deploy this stable Linux operating system step by step. CentOS has been widely used in server environments because of its reliability, compatibility, and enterprise-focused approach. CentOS is a Linux distribution based on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux ecosystem and has been available in different variants, including CentOS Linux and CentOS Stream. Each version follows a different development model and can be selected according to the requirements of each environment. In this tutorial, we will demonstrate how to install CentOS 7 in a virtual machine using VMware vSphere.…
Introduction to the VMware PowerCLI is an article that introduces the very interesting commands that helps to administrate a vSphere Environment from Powershell CLI. Besides, it’s a very useful thing to automate a lot of administrative tasks 😉 VMware PowerCLI is a command-line and scripting tool built on Windows PowerShell and provides more than 800 cmdlets for managing and automating VMware vSphere, VMware Cloud Director, vRealize Operations Manager, vSAN, VMware NSX-T Data Center, VMware Cloud Services, VMware Cloud on AWS, VMware HCX, VMware Site Recovery Manager, and VMware Horizon environments. To access the VMware PowerCLI user’s guide, the below link…
How to install FreeBSD 13 is an article that explains how to install FreeBSD step-by-step in a lab environment. FreeBSD is a fantastic OS and it is used a lot around the world. A lot of systems are based on FreeBSD, such as TrueNAS. To see more details about TrueNAS, click HERE. To get more details about FreeBSD: FreeBSD download page: Creating the Virtual Machine Our lab is based on vSphere 7. So, first, we will create the Virtual Machine. Right-click on the cluster name and then click on the “New Virtual Machine …”: Type the Virtual Machine name. In…
How to enable the vSphere HA feature is an article that explains how to enable and configure the HA (High Availability) feature in a vSphere 7 cluster. It is a very important feature for improving the availability of the virtual machines running on the vSphere Cluster. How vSphere HA works vSphere HA provides high availability for virtual machines by pooling the virtual machines and the hosts they reside on into a cluster. Hosts in the cluster will monitor and in the event of a failure, the virtual machines on a failed host will restart on alternate hosts. Note: It is…
How to create VM/Host Rules is an article that will explain how creating DRS VM/Host Rules to satisfy some environmental requirements such as “pin” a specific Virtual Machine only to run on a specific ESXi host, avoid both Virtual Machines running on the same ESXi host or something like that. This rule depends on the DRS service. So, it is a requirement to enable and configure the DRS service before using VM/Host rules. We have an article that explains how to enable the DRS service. Click HERE to see this article. VM/Host Rules Overview To access the VM/Host Rules, select…
How to enable the vSphere DRS feature is an article to explain how to enable and configure the DRS vSphere on the vSphere Cluster. The DRS is an acronym for Distributed Resource Scheduler and helps to maintain the cluster as balanced as possible related to the CPU, Memory, and network usage. DRS Introduction VMware vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) is the resource scheduling and load balancing solution for vSphere. DRS works on a cluster of ESXi hosts and provides resource management capabilities like load balancing and virtual machine placement. DRS also enforces user-defined resource allocation policies at the cluster level…