Category: Virtualization
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NSX Manager Deployment Steps
Reading Time: 4 minutesNSX Manager Deployment Steps is an article that explains all steps to deploy the first NSX Manager for an NSX-T Data Center environment. The first step is to deploy the first NSX Manager. In this phase, we need to deploy the NSX Manager from the OVA file. Firstly, select the Cluster –>…
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Introduction to NSX-T
Reading Time: 4 minutesIntroduction to NSX-T is an article that explains the basic concepts of VMware NSX-T. Update: Nowadays, VMware has changed the name to only “NSX”! Current Business Days In the digital business era, nearly every organization is building custom applications to drive its core business and gain a competitive advantage. The speed at…
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Updating vCenter Server 6.7 to 7
Reading Time: 8 minutesUpdating vCenter Server 6.7 to 7 is an article that explains how Updating vCenter Server 6.7 to 7. About Our Environment In our lab environment, there is a vCenter Server version 6.7.0 build 18485185 with Embedded PSC: We have one ESXi host and both VMs running in this environment: Accessing the ESXi…
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Shut Down the vSAN Cluster
Reading Time: 4 minutesShut Down the vSAN Cluster is an article that explains how to shut down the vSAN Cluster correctly for something scheduled maintenance or something like that. Firstly, if you are running vSAN 7.0 Update 3 or later, there is a wizard that helps in this task. The Wizard calls “Shut Down Cluster…
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Adding Hosts into an existing vSAN Cluster
Reading Time: 6 minutesAdding Hosts into an existing vSAN Cluster is an article that explains how to add hosts with minimal impact to an existing vSAN Cluster. In our case, we have a vSAN Stretched Cluster and we need to add more ESXi hosts to expand this cluster. So, we will show how to do…
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Creating a vSAN Stretched Cluster with vSAN 8
Reading Time: 6 minutesCreating a vSAN Stretched Cluster with vSAN 8 is an article that explains in a practical way how to create a Stretched Cluster using the new vSAN architecture called ESA – Express Storage Architecture. vSAN 8 is a new vSAN version released a few months ago. VMware vSAN 8, Introduces the revolutionary Express…
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Creating a vSAN Stretched Cluster
Reading Time: 16 minutesCreating a vSAN Stretched Cluster is an article that explains how to create another type of vSAN Cluster, called vSAN Stretched Cluster. Before we are starting to create a vSAN Cluster Stretched Cluster, I need to share one of the best places to get more details about vSAN. This place is the VMware…
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How to create a vSAN Cluster
Reading Time: 12 minutesHow to create a vSAN Cluster is an article that explains what is vSAN and how steps are needed to create a vSAN Cluster. Before we are starting to create a vSAN Cluster, I need to share one of the best places to get more details about vSAN. This place is the…
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Applying a patch on the ESXi host
Reading Time: 4 minutesApplying a patch on the ESXi host is an article that explains how to update the ESXi host. There are some ways to perform it. But, in this example, we will apply the patch from the CLI (Command Line Interface). The VMware Article 2143832 shows the build numbers and versions of all…
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Configuring vCenter Server HA
Reading Time: 6 minutesConfiguring vCenter Server HA is an article that explains how to implement High Availability for the vCenter Server. In our lab, we are using one ESXi server to host all vCenter Server instances as necessary to demonstrate the procedures. How vCenter Server HA work? Firstly, it’s necessary to understand how vCenter Server…
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Applying a patch on the vCenter Server
Reading Time: 4 minutesApplying a patch on the vCenter Server is an article that explains how to update the vCenter Server. The are some ways to do it. In this article, we will show how to perform it using CLI (Command Line Interface) with the patch .iso file. The VMware Article 2143838 shows the build…
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How to install vCenter 8 in Lab Environment
Reading Time: 6 minutesHow to install vCenter 8 is an article that describes how to install the vCenter Server Appliance, step-by-step, in a lab environment using the VMware Workstation software. If you don’t use VMware Workstation, no problem, I believe that all concepts can be used in any way (physical or another virtual environment). I’m…