Category: Cluster
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MTU, VDS, and VMkernel: The relation among them
Reading Time: 4 minutesA friend asked me to help solve an issue related to an entire vSAN cluster going down after changing MTU values. Because this subject can sometimes seem complex and confusing, I created this simple post to explain it. What is the issue? Let’s explain it. The vSAN cluster is a standard cluster…
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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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Applying ESXi Patch with vLCM
Reading Time: 6 minutesApplying ESXi Patch with vLCM is an article that explains how to apply an ESXi Patch on all ESXi hosts in a vSphere Cluster. Before we show the practical steps to perform it, we will talk a little about vSphere vLCM. Background With vSphere 7.0, VMware launched a feature called vSphere Lifecycle Manager…
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vSphere HA Communication Network
Reading Time: 3 minutesvSphere HA Communication Network is an article that explains how vSphere HA Communication Network works in a vSAN Cluster, and what network is used to achieve that. Definitely, the vSphere HA is a classical and useful feature present on the vSphere Stack. vSphere HA provides high availability for virtual machines by pooling…
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How to enable the vSphere HA feature
Reading Time: 6 minutesHow 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…
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How to create VM/Host Rules
Reading Time: 4 minutesHow 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…
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How to enable the vSphere DRS feature
Reading Time: 4 minutesHow 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…
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Creating a vSphere 7 Cluster – Part 3
Reading Time: 9 minutesCreating a vSphere 7 Cluster is an article to show how to create a vSphere Cluster, step-by-step, using a lab environment for that. We split this article into 3 parts, where is the first part called “Creating a vSphere 7 Cluster – Part 3”. Also, If you want to read Part 1…
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Creating a vSphere 7 Cluster – Part 2
Reading Time: 6 minutesCreating a vSphere 7 Cluster is an article to show how to create a vSphere Cluster, step-by-step, using a lab environment for that. We split this article into 3 parts, where is the first part called “Creating a vSphere 7 Cluster – Part 2”. This is Part 2 of the Creating a…
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Creating a vSphere 7 Cluster – Part 1
Reading Time: 6 minutesCreating a vSphere 7 Cluster is an article to show how to create a vSphere Cluster, step-by-step, using a lab environment for that. We split this article into 3 parts, where is the first part called “Creating a vSphere 7 Cluster – Part 1”. I’m using VMware® Workstation 16 Pro version 16.1.2 build-17966106 installed…