I recently had an issue where I couldnt get into one of my ESXi Servers as I did not know the Password. I could get into vCenter and so forced a reset of all root user password via Host Profiles.
In vCenter, select Home > Host Profiles
Backup your VCSA vCenter 6.5
I am jut int he process of migrating to a new VCSA 6.7 and wanted to test the Backup and Restore Process
In the VAMI – the Web based management console for the VCSA, there is an option for Backup
Enter a Destination for the Backup to go to, I created an FTP Server as it is a test but you can use the HTTP/S, FTP and SCP Protocols. (more…)
“The network bridge on device ‘VMnet0’ is not running”
I recently went into my VMware Workstation based lab and found that a few of my VMs did not have Internet or LAN Access. When looking at the Settings of the VMs, the Network Adapter which was supposed to be Bridged, was not showing as “Connected”
When I tried to “Connect” It, I would recieve: “The network bridge on device ‘VMnet0’ is not running. The virtual machine will not be able to communicate with the host or with other machines on your network. Failed to connect virtual device ‘Ethernet0’” (more…)
VIRTUAL LAB – PART 8 – Deploying a VM and testing vMotion
Now we have shared Storage attached to all our Hosts, we can upload an ISO and deploy a new VM. As I only have the one Datastore, I will create an ISO Folder on this.
Select the Datastore, Click New Folder and give it a name
Deploying Turbonomic into VMware Lab Environment
In this Post, I am installing Turbonomic into my Home Lab which is based on VMware Workstation – When deploying into your vCenter, the initial process will be slightly different i.e Deploy OVF Template
Installing, Configuring and Enabling SNMP on Turbonomic and Linux VMs
This tutorial outlines how to Install, Configure and Enable SNMP on a Turbonomic instance and Linux Virtual Machines. This is a document I wrote over at the Turbonomic Green Circle Community.
The instructions cover how to setup Linux-based VMs that are under Turbonomic’s control including those running in the Public Cloud. This process has been used when unable to use Public Cloud providers tools when gathering Memory metrics.
The number of vSphere HA heartbeat datastores for this host is 1 or 0, which is less than required: 2
When building the lab environment you may only want to have the 1 Datastore setup. If so you may encounter the above Warning
“The password change operation failed” on VCSA
Viewing Wasted Storage (Unattached Volumes) in AWS using Turbonomic
In this post, I will discuss how to view Wasted Storage or Unattached Volumes in AWS using Turbonomic. This is also posted HERE
Pre-requisites:
Datastore Browsing Enabled in Turbonomic – If this cannot be enabled across the whole environment, I will show how to do this at a Group level.
1 – Creating AWS Storage Group/s – This may be required if you cannot enabled Datastore Browsing across the whole environment or if you want to Group different AWS Storage by Regions. (more…)
Adding a Virtual Router into Home Lab using VyOS
I wanted to add a Virtual Router into my portable Lab – the reason for this was, I want to have a bunch of my VMs on a Private Network for testing – but no and again I want to patch them or give them temporary access to the Internet. For this I am going to use a VyOS Virtual Machine and test with an Ubuntu Server I have. I am using VMware Fusion on my Mac but the same process can be used in Workstation but using the Network Editor
For this example, I have created a Custom Network 192.168.10.0 and called vmnet3
Add Static IP to CentOS 7
I am spinning up a few CentOS 7 Servers in preparation for a Kubernetes/OpenShift Lab I am planning on running
There are a few ways to add a Static IP to a CentOS box. Here I will use the Network Manager TUI.
vSphere agent does not exist or may not be running – vRA
I have spun up a vRA and vRO Lab quickly to perform some testing recently and came across the above error when trying to at my vCenter endpoints into vRealize Automation.
Upload to Datastore failure – Self Signed Certificate Error
When uploading file to Datastore you receive: The operation failed for an undetermined reason. Typically this problem occurs due to certificates that the browser does not trust….
VIRTUAL LAB – PART 7 – Adding Shared Storage
Now we have the Networking in place, we need some Shared Storage. Im going to refer to a few older posts of mine to set this up with FreeNAS which works really well. I may look at other solutions at some point but for now this does exactly what I need.
Installing FreeNAS into VMware Workstation Pt1
Installing FreeNAS into VMware Workstation Pt2
Installing FreeNAS into VMware Workstation Pt3 (iSCSI)
This should be enough to get going (May add some NFS Later)
VIRTUAL LAB – PART 6 – ESXi and vCenter Networking
This post will cover the setup of the Hosts networking. I plan to simulate (as much as possible) a real world deployment, so separating all traffic over different networks. This will mean adding a few additional Interfaces to each Host and deploying a few Virtual Switches to them also.
The first thing I need to do is add a few Network Interfaces to each of my Hosts, Im going to add 3 Interfaces; 1 for Shared Storage, 1 for FT and 1 for vMotion.
Open up Virtual Machine Settings and select Add…
Select Yes if the User Account Control appears (more…)
