vSphere
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What’s New in vSphere 8 – An Overview
VMware announced vSphere 8 In VMware Explore 2022 and it is officially expected to be available by October last. Also keep in mind vSphere 6.5 and 6.7 is End of general support by 15th October 2022. vSphere 8 is come up with significant improvements and wide variety of new features. In this blog we will… Continue reading
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How to Install Microsoft CA Signed Certificate in ESXi
SSL Certificates are small data files that digitally bind a cryptographic key to an organization’s details. An organization needs to install the SSL Certificate onto its web server to initiate a secure session with browsers. Once a secure connection is established, all web traffic between the web server and the web browser will be secure.… Continue reading
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How to Reset ESXi Password
It happens with everyone that we unfortunately forget the passwords and it is very difficult to build everything from scratch. VMware says its not possible to reset the ESXi passwords from version 5.x onwards. There is a VMware KB that helps to reset the ESXi passwords of 3.x and 4.x which is not supported in… Continue reading
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Nested ESXi Installation & Configuration
The term nested is running a hypervisor, such as ESXi, or Hyper-V under another hypervisor. Running a nested ESXi server, on another ESXi server, is not supported by VMware, but it is an excellent way to experiment, and explore setting up a VMware Environment. In this blog will cover how to install and configure nested… Continue reading
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VMware vSphere ESX and vCenter Configuration Maximums
When you select and configure your virtual and physical equipment, you must stay at or below the maximums supported by VMware. The limits presented in the following sections represent tested, recommended limits, and are fully supported by VMware. The limits presented in the guide are applicable to ESXi host and vCenter Server. The limits can… Continue reading
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VMware HA DRS and FT
VMware offers many enterprise features, among them there are three important features which will make sure the vSphere infrastructure and hosted Workloads are highly available. All these features are enabled at VMware vCenter Server level and which requires specific licensing as well. In this blog I will brief below VMware availability features. Each of these… Continue reading
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What is VxRail
VxRail is part of Dell EMC’s hyper-converged infrastructure offerings, bringing together a streamlined hardware, operating system, and software stack for implementing VMware vSAN. Hyper-converged appliances allow a datacenter in a box approach, rather than buying servers, storage and hypervisor separately hyper-converged appliances bundle the components into one box. The compute storage and hypervisor components used by… Continue reading
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What is VMware vSwitch
Virtual machines connect to a network much in the same way physical ones do. The difference is that the VMs use virtual network adapters and virtual switches to establish connections with physical networks. A virtual switch is a software program, which gets created automatically during the installation of ESXi host – a logical switching fabric… Continue reading
About Me
Welcome to my blog! I’m Vysakh Nair, a Cloud Architect at Presight, a G42 company. With over 17 years in IT infrastructure, I have honed my skills in Azure, AWS, and VMware technologies. My expertise extends to both Microsoft and Linux environments, and I thrive on tackling challenges in Storage and Networking technologies. Join me as I share insights and experiences from my journey in the world of cloud architecture and IT infrastructure. Continue Reading
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