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An ESXi scratch partition is a 4GB VFAT partition created during autoconfiguration phase while installing ESXi. A scratch partition is only needed to store vm-support output when a vSphere admin is creating a support bundle. While doing so, If an…
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vSAN is the VMware software defined solution that allows you to manage compute and storage with a single platform, and offers the main benefit of deploying production ready vSphere clusters without having to use shared storage. In my vSphere home…
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Time synchronization is very important in any production environment, as a correct time configuration is mandatory for many applications. Some examples of this are authentication DB replication, and backup…etc. I had recently noticed continuous security alerts appearing in my monitoring…
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VMware makes it very easy to deploy vSphere vCenter 6.7 in linked mode. In VMware terms, a linked mode installation means deploying the Platform Service Controller (PSC) and the Virtual Center Server (vCenter Server) separately, each of these component will…
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vSphere 6.7 is the lastet version of VMware suite of server virtualization products that includes ESXi 6.7 and vCenter 6.7, and comes with many new features. You can install vCenter Server on a Windows virtual machine or physical server, or…
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One major benefit related to the new architecture of vSphere 6.x is its simple deployment compared to previous versions. While dealing with vCenter 6.7 architectures, the thing to note is that it consists of two main components: the Platform Service…
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In the previous posts, we were able to make our vSphere hosts cluster up and running by creating a virtual datacenter, creating a cluster, then adding the ESXi hosts to it. We then configured the vMotion networking for VM mobility,…
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vMotion was pretty easy to configure, we just created a VMkernel port group, specified that i would be used for vMotion traffic and assigned an IP address to it. However, the trick is on the iSCSI configuration, where two VMMkernel…
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In this post, we will configure the vMotion networking for our ESXi hosts. Each ESXi host has 8 vmincs as show below As mentioned in the first post of this series, vmnic0 and vmnic1 are already used for management. vmnic2…
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In the last post, we made sure our vCenter server is up and running correctly, by doing a ping test and connecting successfully to the vSphere Web Console. In this post, we’ll connect to the vCenter server and create the…
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