After understanding basics of VMware vSphere components it’s now time to Install and Configure VMware ESXi 6.0. Make sure you’ve gone through various editions of vSphere before purchasing and installing it. There are few system requirements that must be met before you can install ESXi server. Make sure the server hardware that you are going to install ESXi […]

• VMware Virtualization

After installing ESXi host, the very first thing you would want to do is configure IP address and Host name in ESXi server. By default, the hostname is called localhost the IP address is set to DHCP client. So, in this post I will show steps to configure IP address and hostname in ESXi server. Configure IP […]

• VMware Virtualization

 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 placed within storage and also data services. There are certain builtin storage policies that are […]

• vSphere 6.5

VMware vCenter Server allows you to create templates from existing virtual machines. You can use templates to reduce the amount of time spent building and implementing new servers, cutting down the provisioning process to just a few hours. A template is a master copy of a virtual machine that can be used to create and […]

• VMware Virtualization

Virtual machine cloning is a feature exclusive to vCenter Server but there is a workaround to this restriction . In this post, I will explain how to clone VMs on ESXi without vCenter Server using a vSphere client and shell commands. Steps are very simple First create a target VM with identical hardware and resources […]

• vSphere 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 launch vimtop, you will need to SSH to a VCSA 6.0 system and type “vimtop” […]

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

• vSphere 6.5