VSPHERE-6.5

By: Rajesh Radhakrishnan

Storage Space Reclamation in vSphere 6.5

In vSphere 6.5 there new feature is enabled  ,come back of VMFS storage space reclamation. This feature was enabled in a manual way for VMFS5 datastores and was able to be triggered when you free storage space inside a datastore when deleting or...

08/02/2018
Published 2 weeks ago
By: Rajesh Radhakrishnan

Modify Default IOP Limit in vSphere

SSH to your ESXi Host and enter your credentials.  We are going to run the command to give us the Network Address Authority names of our LUN’s. esxcli storage nmp device list | grep naa Check which Datastores the NAA ...

01/02/2018
Published 2 weeks ago
By: Rajesh Radhakrishnan

VisualEsxtop

VisualEsxtop is an enhanced version of resxtop and esxtop. VisualEsxtop can connect to VMware vCenter Server or ESX hosts, and display ESX server stats with a better user interface and more advanced features.   Features Live connection to ESX host...

01/02/2018
Published 2 weeks ago
By: Rajesh Radhakrishnan

VMFS 6 Datastore in VMware vSphere 6.5

VMFS 6 Datastore in VMware vSphere 6.5 The new storage enhancements that come with vSphere 6.5 using 4K aligned drives and the new unmap feature, you need to use a VMFS 6 formatted datastore. Create VMFS 6 Datastore in VMware vSphere 6.5...

27/01/2018
Published 2 weeks ago
By: Rajesh Radhakrishnan

Join External PSC 6.5 to Domain

Login to the appliance management portal browse to https://IP:5480 where IP is the IP or FQDN of the virtual appliance. Login with the root account. Here we can configure settings specific to the virtual appliance, such as networking, SSH, syslog, etc. To...

27/01/2018
Published 2 weeks ago
By: Rajesh Radhakrishnan

VCSA 6.5 VMDK Partitions and Disk Resizing

Similar to the vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) 6.0 release, the new VCSA 6.5 is also composed of multiple virtual machine disks (VMDKs). Each VMDK maps to a specific function and OS partition within the VCSA. There are now a total of 12 VMDKs,...

27/01/2018
Published 3 weeks ago
By: Rajesh Radhakrishnan

VCSA 6.5 Deployment Error: Time Out of Sync

VCSA 6.5 Deployment Error: Time Out of Sync This issue is during the Stage 2 of the vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) installation with an external Platform Services Controller (PSC). The time on this VMware vCenter Server Appliance is out of...

27/01/2018
Published 3 weeks ago