Reading Time: 2 minutesGetting the Nutanix CE shows all the necessary steps to get the Nutanix Community Edition (CE) installation ISO file. The Nutanix Community Edition (CE) is an exciting way to get hands-on experience with the Nutanix Cloud Platform on your hardware at no cost. If you are like me and love testing everything in a lab…
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, VMware Cloud Director,…
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 only uses physical…
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 can be “cold”…
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 is also generated…
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 and the SDDC…