Install and Configure PerfAnalyzer with vCenter

PerfAnalyzer is a prepackaged virtual appliance  and easy to deploy from vCenter . Follow below steps to do to get PerfAnalyzer up and running. Installation and Configuration – step by step The opvizor PerfAnalyzer is supplied as a VMware OVF template. To install: Download the opvizor PerfAnalyzer ZIP file from Download Extract the ZIP file Deploy OVF […]

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Configure EVC on vSphere 6.5

We have shared information about  EVC , here we are explain how to enable EVC on cluster . Requirements Description Supported ESX/ESXi version ESX/ESXi 3.5 Update 2 or later. vCenter Server The host must be connected to a vCenter Server system. CPUs A single vendor, either AMD or Intel. Note:Hardware vendors sometimes disable particular CPU features in the BIOS by […]

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Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC)

Enhanced vMotion Compatibility which is a vCenter Server cluster-centric feature allowing virtual machines to vMotion or migrate across ESXi hosts equipped with dissimilar processors in the same cluster. VMware EVC Mode works by masking unsupported processor features thus presenting a homogeneous processor front to all the virtual machines in a cluster. This means that a VM […]

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vMotion Requirements

We already explained about vMotion  Since vMotion is intervening in an active virtual machine without that virtual machine’s knowledge, certain conditions must be fulfilled so that the process can run without problems or failures: CPU compatibility vMotion interface (minimum 1 Gb adapter) Shared storage Same naming for virtual port groups VMkernel port group with vMotion […]

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VMotion

VMware vMotion enables the live migration of running virtual machines from one physical server to another with zero downtime, continuous service availability, and complete transaction integrity. VMotion is a key enabling technology for creating the dynamic, automated, and self optimizing data center . vMotion allow users to do below Automatically optimize and allocate entire pools of resources for maximum hardware […]

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Collect vSwicth Information Using vSphere Power CLI

In this  Post  sharing the Script to collect the Virtual Standard Switch Information from vSPhere power cli to CSV file . You can Modify  the Location of the file to save and directly apply to vSPhere Cli Window or  you can save this as .PS1  extension and run  CLI window . Script  &{foreach($esx in Get-VMHost){ […]

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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 a sensitive VM,they can easily take those files by  mount it on their on VMware […]

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