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By: Rajesh Radhakrishnan

How to reset root password of vCenter Server 6.5 – VCSA

There might a situation when you can’t login into a vCenter system anymore because you either don’t know the root password anymore or the system is not able to log you in.The can happen if the root mountpoint of the...

27/02/2018
Published 2 weeks ago
By: Rajesh Radhakrishnan

Configure Encrypted VMs in VMware vSphere 6.5

One of the new exciting features that was introduced with vSphere 6.5 is the encrypted VMs feature.  Security these days is on everyone’s mind and encryption provides a solution to many security concerns.  If someone gets a copy of the raw VMDKs of...

21/02/2018
Published 2 weeks ago
By: Rajesh Radhakrishnan

VM Storage Policies- vSphere 6.5

 VMware Virtual Machine Storage Policies fall under the realm of Storage Policy Based Management that assists with virtual machine provisioning. When defined, Storage Based Policies define which type(s) of storage are presented for the virtual machine and how the virtual machine is...

21/02/2018
Published 2 weeks ago
By: Rajesh Radhakrishnan

VIMTOP – Monitor vCenter Server Appliance 6.5

vimtop is tool to monitor vCenter server appliance 6.5 performance information and statistics. vimtop is similar to esxtop which is available with ESXi. vimtop is the tool which helps you to  troubleshoot performance issues or bottlenecks in the vCenter Server appliance To...

18/02/2018
Published 2 weeks ago
By: Rajesh Radhakrishnan

Configure SNMP on the vCenter Server Appliance 6.5

vCenter Server Appliance includes an Simple Network Management Protocol agent that can send trap notifications and receive GET, GETBULK, and GETNEXT requests. You can use the appliance shell API commands to enable and configure the Simple Network Management Protocol agent...

17/02/2018
Published 2 weeks ago