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 in vCenter Server appliance. You need to configure the agent differently depending on whether you […]

• vSphere 6.5

An overview of the Architecture A vCenter High Availability cluster consists of three vCSA 6.5 appliances deployed in an Active, Passive and Witness configuration. The Active node is a standard vCenter instance, the state of which is regularly replicated to the Passive node. The Passive node takes over when the entire Active node or critical […]

• vSphere 6.5

This Post cover below , and mainly for installing and configure VCSA we should have proper FQDN Set up DNS using a Windows DNS server. Install an external Platform Services Controller (PSC). Install vCSA 6.5 using the external PSC just created. Configured DNS The first step is to come up with hostnames and corresponding IP […]

• vSphere 6.5

Problem Setting up a simple vSphere 6.5  environment, using percentage-based HA we have been seeing the following Configuration Issue flag on the cluster . Insufficient configured resources to satisfy the desired vSphere HA failover level on the cluster … You can see the alarms have Acknowledge/Reset options, this is a Configuration Issue message instead. I have […]

• 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 migrating a VM or consolidate a snapshot. At a Guest OS level, storage space is […]

• vSphere 6.5

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  IS  from vSphere Web Client First we have to start by checking the current multi […]

• vSphere 6.5

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 or vCenter Server Flexible way of batch output Load batch output and replay them Multiple windows […]

• vSphere 6.5