Category: VCAP5-DCA

VMware vSphere Storage Concepts – Part One: Virtual Disk Format Types

January 10, 2015

When provisioning virtual machine hard disks on VMFS datastores we have the following disk formats to select from: Lazy-zeroed Thick Eager-zeroed Thick Thin Now which format should we decide to use and what are the differences we require to understand? Lazy-zeroed Thick On creation of the virtual machine hard disk the blocks and pointers are allocated … More VMware vSphere Storage Concepts – Part One: Virtual Disk Format Types

Creating a virtual standard switch (vSS) using the esxcli namespace

November 18, 2014

In order to create a virtual standard switch (vSS) we can use the vSphere Web Client or alternatively we can use the esxcli namespace to achieve this. In this example I will create a single vSS by connecting to the console session of an ESXi host with the following requirements: Create a vSS named vSwitch1 … More Creating a virtual standard switch (vSS) using the esxcli namespace

Configure SNMP receivers on vCenter Server and ESXi Hosts

November 18, 2014

SNMP can be used to automatically retrieve status information from vSphere and ESXi hosts and provide the ability to push this information into a monitoring and management system. You can configure a maximum of four SNMP receivers can be configured per vCenter to send SNMP traps to management systems. To configure SNMP receivers, using the … More Configure SNMP receivers on vCenter Server and ESXi Hosts

Adding NFS storage using the command line interface (CLI) with esxcfg and PowerCLI

November 18, 2014

In this example I will look at creating an NFS datastore using both esxcfg command line interface and PowerCLI to which I will use the following parameters. Datastore Name: openfiler-nfs2 NFS Host: 10.0.0.6 NFS mount point: /mnt/nfs/nfs2/vmfs/ By connecting to an ESXi hosts console session we can invoke the esxcfg command line interface to create … More Adding NFS storage using the command line interface (CLI) with esxcfg and PowerCLI

Deploying the vMA appliance, authentication and authorization and configuring fastpass

November 16, 2014

Firstly we will need to download the vMA appliance (https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/details?downloadGroup=VMA55P01&productId=408) and import the OVF file, configure the deployment settings and power on. Before we start using the vMA we will look at configuring authentication and authorization to simplify the use of the vMA appliance. Configuring Authentication and Authorization for the vMA To simplify executing commands … More Deploying the vMA appliance, authentication and authorization and configuring fastpass