Tag: Vmware vSphere

Setup VMware vCenter 5.1 ESXi 5.1  Discoveries When the VMDK is created as Think provisioned disk it doesn’t allow to extend the size of vmdk in VM Edit Settings and it displays greyed out Additionally if you have taken snapshot of the Thin provisioned disk. The option will be greyed…Continue readingUnable to Extend C Drive for Thin Provisioned Disk

We were facing issues with Use Windows Credentials option in vSphere Client while accessing vCenter via domain credentials Following troubleshooting performed along with resolution Error Cannot Complete login due to an incorrect username or password Setup VMware vCenter 5.1 Update b Troubleshooting Steps Ensured the Identity Source configuration is correct…Continue readingCannot complete login due to an incorrect user name or password

This 5.5 release offers several enhancements, These enhancements include: Greater Scalability – Configurations have doubled from previous limits when it comes to physical CPUs, memory and NUMA nodes. Virtual disk files also now scale up to 64TBs. vSphere Customization for Low Latency Applications – vSphere with Operations Management can be…Continue readingVMware vSphere 5.5 Announced

Last week I had to migrate ESXi Host from 1 vCenter to Another. Following are the reason why We had vCenter Linux Appliance which has limitation of 5 Hosts and 50 VMs (Don’t ask the reason why we did this. Answer is Commercial aspect J) We had  reached the near…Continue readingESXi Host Migration from 1 vCenter to Another

VMware introduced this feature in vSphere 5.1 where it allows backup of the distributed switch Following are the observations while performing the test Observations This is only possible from web client It gives you 2 options while exporting the configuration. Only distributed switch only & Distributed Switch and all port…Continue readingBackup/Restore Distributed Switch Configuration In vSphere 5.1

About Private VLANs The private VLAN (PVLAN) feature addresses two problems that service providers face when using VLANs:        ·     The switch supports up to 1005 active VLANs. If a service provider assigns one VLAN per customer, this limits the numbers of customers the service provider can…Continue readingPVLANs

Access the web client http://ipaddress:9443/vsphere-client and Navigate to the Distributed Switches and Click Add Button(Green Plus Sign) It will open up the new DVSwitch Wizard Select the version of DVSwitch. We have ESXi 5.0 so we selected the second option which is version 5.0.0 Select the Number of Uplinks. Default…Continue readingHow to Create DVSwitch using WebClient 5.1

Introduction Capture host level configuration settings and save them as a template to configure other vSphere hosts. Monitor hosts for configuration changes and automatically alert vSphere administrators if a host falls out of compliance. Reduce the time spent manually configuring vSphere hosts Ensure host configuration consistency and compliance Standardize storage,…Continue readingHost Profiles

For some purposes i had to copy the VMs and ship it across for which I wanted to compress the VM files. I have done comparison between 3 different tools for same VMs. I noticed the best Compression Ratio was for 7zip Original Size 24 GB 7Zip 2.19 GB WinRar…Continue readingVirtual Machine Compression