When GCVE is provisioned, one of the initial configurations is to allow administrators to access the GCVE component management interfaces, including vCenter, NSX-T, HCX etc. This post is to summarize a few options to perform the connections.
This post is a quick glance of GCVE private cloud provision. Based on the hand-on experience, the provisioning and configuration is very simple and easy to follow.
Continue readingGoogle Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE) has been in market for a while, but this is the first time I get chance to take a closer look into the GCVE solution. For VMware enthusiast, Google did provide an impressive solution (same as AWS and Azure) to allow the existing on-premise VMware virtual machines to be transparently lift-and-shifted into public cloud environment.
For VCSA appliance, if a customer CA-signed certificate is required, there are two ways to generate the CSR and replace the certificate:
The 1st option is commonly used and described as in below VMware KB article:
https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2112277
This post is to illustrate the second way by using vSphere Client.
Continue readingWhen configuring HyperFlex cluster, each HyperFlex cluster is required to register to a VMware vCenter server. For customer with multiple HyperFlex clusters and vCenter servers, VMware enhanced linked mode could be considered to reduce the management effort.
This post is to high light a few points when configuring Cisco HyperFlex with VMware vCenter enhanced linked mode.
When performing the vRealize Automation configuration, there will be some settings need to be configured, like Business group, reservation, blueprint, catalog and etc. This post is to help you to organize and understand these concepts in a different view.
This is a simple post to introduce the VMware vRealize Suite for the first time user as a quick overview. This is a short version of product Overview and the figures in this post are from VMware public documents. The full documents are under below link:
https://docs.vmware.com/en/vRealize-Suite/index.html
From VMware PowerCLI version 6.5.2 and above, the .exe installable package is not available from VMware download site. All the PowerCLI modules are available from https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/VMware.PowerCLI.
This post is to highlight the online and offline installation procedure for PowerCLI version 6.5.2 and above.
Recently, I met an issue for the newly installed PowerCLI 6.5. When launching the PowerCLI, the PowerCLI module failed to load with below error.:
Unable to find type [VMware.VimAutomation.Sdk.Util10.ProductInfo].
At C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\Infrastructure\PowerCLI\Scripts\Initialize-PowerCLIEnvironment.ps1:71 char:28
I recently got a task to migrate more than 100 VMware virtual machine from one sets of datastores to another. In order to automate this process, I draft a simple PowerShell script to perform below tasks:
The script is as below: