VMware vCenter
Add users in VMware vCenter
0I bet everything went great in your VMware infrastructure, until the company hired a junior admin to help you with the work. Now that’s not a bad thing, but you can’t just give him/her full permissions to your vCenter from the start, because it needs to learn the infrastructure first and get familiar with it. If adding a user to your VMware vCenter infrastructure is a challenge, no worry, I will show you how is done in just a second. (more…)
Installing VMware vSphere 5 Web Client Server
0VMware vSphere 5 Web Client Server is a web management console for your vCenter infrastructure. Yes, you can configure and manage vSphere hosts and virtual machines in your vCenter infrastructure even if you are thousand miles away. Just open a browser, login in and you are good to go. In this guide I’m going to show you how to install the vSphere 5 Web Client Server on a Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. (more…)
Creating virtual machines in VMware vCenter 5
0Creating virtual machines was an easy job in previous versions of vCenter, and it’s still is, just a couple of options changed during the wizard. In this post I’ll show you how to create a new virtual machine on a ESXi 5 host using vCenter 5. (more…)
How to create a VMware Cluster
0To be able to create a VMware cluster you need vCenter, and at least two ESX Servers. For this guide I’m going to use ESXi 5 and vCenter 5. ESXi hosts are already added to vCenter. I’m not going to discuss about cluster features like HA (High Availability) and DRS (Distributed Resource Scheduling), I will talk about them in future posts. (more…)
Convert virtual machines using VMware vCenter Converter 5
0Starting with version 5 VMware Converter can’t be installed any more as a plugin in vCenter, it’s a separate product now. If you have to convert some machines from different platforms you need to go on VMware site and download the VMware Converter Standalone kit. In this guide I will show how to convert a Hyper-V virtual machine, to a VMware virtual machine in a vCenter Infrastructure. Go and download the converter from here, and install the product on your technician PC. (more…)
Install VMware vCenter 5 on Windows Server 2008 R2
0Your environment is growing and you can’t monitor or maintain those ESXi servers individually. Every time there is a problem or you need to create some VMs on different ESXi servers you have to open a console for every server. To make your life easier VMware vCenter comes to the rescue. This is a management software meaning, if you have a bunch of ESXi servers, or allot of them, you can add all those ESXi servers and manage them using a single console. The good news is that it offers new functionalities that you never had with the stand alone console. (more…)
Configure Active Directory integration for VMware vSphere and ESXi
0We all know AD (Active Directory) is to centralize things, but for Windows machines. Well… starting from version 4.1, VMware is offering the option to integrate their ESX/ESXi servers with Windows domains. Yes, you could integrate older ESX/ESXi versions with Windows domains, but it was a paint, you had to use scrips and hacks. Now starting with VMware vSphere 4.1, the integration is done using a couple of mouse clicks in vCenter. You still have the option of scripting this process using PowerCLI, if a big number of hosts exists in your environment, but in this post I will show you how to do it using VMware vCenter. (more…)
Licensing ESX, ESXi and vCenter Server
0You downloaded an evaluation copy of ESX/ESXi and vCenter, but that evaluation has come to an end. The second part is, that you really like these products, because of the benefits and costs reductions they bring, so you decided to buy a license. The last step is to license the software, and this guide is going to show you how. For this demonstration I have four ESXi 5 serves already added to a vCenter Server 5, so let’s get started. (more…)
How to add ESX/ESXi hosts to VMware vCenter
0I can tell you from the start that this is an easy job. With just a few clicks you are going to add your first ESX/ESXi host to your vCenter Server for better management and monitoring.
Before we start is very important that your DNS is configured correctly. In my lab here I manually created the DNS A record for the ESXi host. If you don’t create this DNS entry you will have to use the IP address of the ESX/ESXi server, when running the vCenter wizard for adding a host. I am also running VMware ESXi 5 with vCenter 5. (more…)
Creating and working with VMware vCenter profiles – Part1
0If you are like me and want to automate tasks so you don’t have to click ’till your hand hurts, then believe me vCenter profiles can do that for you. What actually does is creating a profile (network settings, domain settings, firewall configuration etc) from an already configured server and apply that profile to servers you want. After the profile is created you can customize it further. Let’s say you want to open a security port on ten ESXi servers. I don’t think is fun to go on every one of those servers an configure the firewall, instead you can create a profile and apply that profile to those servers. (more…)
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