Tag: vSphere

Deploy VCF 4.5 Lab on AMD Ryzen – Part 3

by Vinay Aggarwal, posted in NSX, vSphere

In last two parts, we had seen how to setup base VMs and Infrastructure to prepare for VCF Bringup. In 2nd part, we had gone over SDDC Bringup process and issues I had encountered during deployment. In this last part, we will cover how to deploy Edge cluster in SDDC Manager to be used for either AVN, Workload Management or Custom. This is where it gets tricky as Edge VMs get stuck in Registration Pending state due to AMD Ryzen CPU, so we will see how to get past this.

Link to Other two parts in this series –

Let’s start deploying VCF 4.5 on our lab environment.

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Deploy VCF 4.5 Lab on AMD Ryzen – Part 2

by Vinay Aggarwal, posted in NSX, vSphere

In first part, we had seen how to setup base VMs and Infrastructure to prepare for VCF Bringup. In 2nd part, I am going to cover SDDC Bringup process and issues I have encountered during deployment. Link to first part is down below. It also has a sample JSON file, which I have used to cut on comonents to save on precious compute and storage in a lab environment.

Let’s start deploying VCF 4.5 on our lab environment.

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Deploy VCF 4.5 Lab on AMD Ryzen – Part 1

by Vinay Aggarwal, posted in NSX, vSphere

This is a very delayed post which was roaming in my head for a long time. I always wanted to deploy a fully functional lab for VCF on my home system to play around with API and automation. There is execellent tool VLC (VCF Lab Constructor) which will help you prepare base infrastructure and deploy VCF to play around with. But in my case, it is bit different as I am using VMware Workstation and wanted to experience bring up process. In this multi part series, I will cover how to deploy VCF and then Edge Cluster to have a functional Consolidated Management Domain.

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Script to add Tag to multiple VMs

by Vinay Aggarwal, posted in vSphere

What happens if you need to add a tag to multiple Virtual Machine in vCenter server. Well one way to do is go to vCenter and add it manually by going to individual Virtual Machine. Or fun way to do it, create a Powershell script. In my case, it was couple hundred Virtual Machines, so I went with 2nd option. Follow on to read more.

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Step by Step guide to upgrade distributed vCenter 6.7 to vCenter 7.0

by Vinay Aggarwal, posted in VMware News

vSphere 7.0 has been announced as General Available by VMware and is ready for download. So, its time to start upgrading lab. Starting vSphere 7.0, option to use external PSC is completely removed and any existing distributed deployment needs to be migrated to embedded deployment. In this article, we will be looking at how to upgrade a distributed deployment of vCenter server 6.7 to vCenter server 7.0.

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vSphere 7 – Announcing General Availability of…

by Vinay Aggarwal, posted in VMware News

vSphere 7 – Announcing General Availability of the New Generation of vSphere

vSphere 7 – Announcing General Availability of…

vSphere 7 The new generation of vSphere for existing enterprise apps. Available in two editions. VMware vSphere 7, the new generation of vSphere, is now generally available. This major new release brings a massive improvement in the work experience of vSphere administrators, folks who are responsible for the security, performance, and resiliency of the infrastructure The post vSphere 7 – Announcing General Availability of the New Generation of vSphere appeared first on VMware vSphere Blog.

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Migrate VM between two vCenter joined to different SSO domain

by Vinay Aggarwal, posted in VMware News

Cross vCenter vMotion capability have been introduced sine vSphere 6.0. But, what if vCenter servers are joined to different SSO (single signon) domain. You will not get option in GUI to migrate VM to different vCenter then. So, is it still possible to do migration between them. In this blog, we will see how to migrate VM in such scenario.

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Upgrade vCenter Server Appliance 6.0.x to 6.7 U3

by Vinay Aggarwal, posted in VMware News

So, one of target to achieve VCAP-NV was completed successfully. Now, its time to upgrade lab as well, as old lab was running on VCSA 6.0 and VMware has recently released 6.7 U3. This blog will explore step by step process to upgrade vCenter server appliance. This upgraded lab will serve for NSX-T deployment as well.

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Objective 1.10 – Describe virtual machine (VM) file structure

by Vinay Aggarwal, posted in VMware News

In this part of blog, I will be covering file structure of Virtual Machine. What make up a virtual machine and what are important files that you shouldn’t be deleting at all. Well you can delete them but then you can say your virtual machine bye – bye. Jokes aside, let’s jump right into it.

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Objective 7.1 – Manage virtual networking

by Vinay Aggarwal, posted in VMware News

It’s been a while since my last bog on configuring virtual networking as I got stuck with some issues and work. I am drafting those issues as part of blog as some were quite interesting. So keep following as more adventure is yet to come. In last blog, we look at how to configure virtual switches. In this part, we will see how to manage virtual networking. How to add new hosts or change existing networking policies? So let’s start.

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Objective 4.5 Configure virtual networking

by Vinay Aggarwal, posted in VMware News

As part of this blog we will look at how to configure virtual networking. This blog covers exam objective 1.8 as well i.e. Differentiate between vSS and vDS.

vSphere 6.7 exam has two objective, one is configuring and other is managing virtual networking. So I will divide this blog in two part series. In part one I will cover basic of virtual networking, how to setup vSphere standard switch and vSphere distributed switch, configuring VMkernel networking and some other topics. In second part of blog we will cover objective 7.1 which talks about managing virtual networking. So let’s jump right into it.

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Objective 4.6 – Deploy and configure VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA)

by Vinay Aggarwal, posted in VMware News

In this blog we will look at how to deploy and configure vCenter server appliance. I am covering these exam objectives in sequence you will configure a vSphere environment, hence i am covering exam objectives back and forth. As part of this blog, we will cover various deployment models of vCenter server, how to deploy VCSA and what are initial configuration that goes in VCSA.

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Objective 4.4 – Set up ESXi hosts

by Vinay Aggarwal, posted in VMware News

In this blog we will be looking at how to install ESXi, what are different methods to install ESXi and initial configuration after installation. This blog is divided in two sections, first section we will see how to install ESXi and in second section, we will look at configuration. I will only give brief about Auto Deploy as deploying ESXi using Auto Deploy is itself a whole different topic. If you would like to know more about Auto Deploy, let me know in comments and I will cover it as a separate blog. So without wasting any more time, let’s dig right into it.

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Objective 1.2 – Identify vCenter high availability (HA) requirements

by Vinay Aggarwal, posted in VMware News

Continuing to my last blog post series, this blog will cover exam objective 1.2 i.e. identify requirement for vCenter server high availability requirements. VCHA is not covered in any other objective so I will be covering brief overview, deployment scenario and how to configure it in this part of blog. So let’s get started.

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Objective 1.1 – Identify the pre-requisites and components for vSphere implementation

by Vinay Aggarwal, posted in VMware News

Good Morning All,

In last couple of days, I got some requests related to do some write ups on managing and configuring vSphere environment. As I was preparing for newly released VCP – DCV 2019 certification exam 2v0 – 21.19, I thought why not cover all exam objective as part of this blog series. Exam 2v0 – 21.19 covers vSphere 6.7 so we will discuss install, configure and management of vSphere 6.7 Update 1. It is very difficult to cover all exam objectives in a single blog, so I will try to cover one objective per blog. This is first part of my very long blog series covering first exam objective. So let’s get going.

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