As a seasoned post-sales consultant, I’ve done my fair share of health checks. For vSphere (more on other topics later), this typically involves using the VMware HealthAnalyzer tool to gather information from vCenter Server and ESXi hosts, and then compare those results versus best practice recommendations. I’d like to share with you some very common […]
vCenter Infrastructure Navigator and vSphere Design
In my day job, I do a lot of brown-field vSphere implementations, which typically means taking existing vSphere workloads and integrating them into new server, network, and/or storage infrastructure. This means the more information I have about existing vSphere workloads, the better. In one particular case, I had a customer who was deploying new Cisco […]
vSphere 5.5 Web Client Workflows – Licensing
Changing licensing in the vSphere 5.5 Web Client is similar to how it’s done in the C# client, though the flow is slightly different from how I’m used to doing it. Add a New License Key 1. On the Home screen, click Licensing. 2. Click the green + to add the new license key. 3. […]
vSphere 5.5 Web Client Workflows – SSO Configuration
With vSphere 5.5, the vCenter Single Sign On (SSO) component was completely rewritten from the ground up. As you’d expect with such a re-write, the configuration is slightly different than in vSphere 5.1. 1. Log in to the vSphere Web Client as administrator@vsphere.local (as opposed to admin@system-domain in vCenter SSO 5.1). By default, it will […]
vSphere 5.5 Web Client Workflows – Create a New Datastore
You’ll remember in the last piece of this series we added some iSCSI LUNs to each of our hosts. To actually do something with them, we’ll need to format them with VMFS. This procedure is similar to the C# client, but it’s not where you’d expect it to be if you’re used to the C# […]
vSphere 5.5 Web Client Workflows – Configure Software iSCSI
In our last article, we went through the workflow to add each host to our Distributed Virtual Switch, as well as adding the requisite VMkernel ports for each host. In this article, we’ll build upon that as we configure software iSCSI on our hosts. Add the Software iSCSI Adapter 1. In the vSphere Web Client […]
vSphere 5.5 Web Client Workflows – Add Hosts to DVS and Create VMkernel Ports
In my last post, I showed you how to create a Distributed Virtual Switch in the vSphere 5.5 Web Client, then add Distributed Virtual Port Groups to it. Now, we need to add our hosts to the DVS and configure our VMkernel ports. Add ESXi Hosts to Distributed Virtual Switch and Create VMkernel Ports 1. […]
vSphere 5.5 Web Client Workflows – Create Distributed Virtual Switch and Port Groups
Since vSphere 5.1, all of the new features for each vSphere release have only been put into the Web Client, rather than integrating features into both the Web Client and the legacy C# client. As vSphere 5.5 will be the last version released with a full Windows C# client (reference – Derek Seaman’s blog), administrators […]
VMworld 2013 – Day 1 Recap
The Monday morning keynote at VMworld is typically the launch pad from which VMware announces new efforts, as well as product updates and releases, and this year has brought much the same. With much fanfare, VMware today announced a slew of product updates, as well as new products and services. Without any further ado, let’s […]
vSphere Web Client Workflow – VMkernel Port Network Label
As you may know, there are a number of activities within the vSphere Web Client that are different from that in the vSphere C# Client. One of these, as I discovered trying to do some reconfiguration in my lab this weekend, is changing the network label for a VMkernel port. Below are steps to change […]
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