A siries of step-by-step guides, complete with screenshots and supporting downloads.
From time to time, you will find it necessary to transfer files to or from your VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) or ESXi Servers. If you are working from a Windows desktop or server, there’s no more convenient utility than WinSCP for copying files securely between Windows and Linux Systems. There are a few issues,
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Hardened / Immutable Backups are the equivalent of “air gapped,” tape, or WORM backups, rendering your data nearly untouchable by Threat Actors! Hardened / Immutable Backups are accomplished through the use of a Linux repository server, the XFS filesystem (to support Fast Clone), one-time-use credentials, and the immutability flag which is a property of just
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Veeam Backup and Replication 11 is a true game-changer with its Immutable Backup feature. Moving forward, Veeam Immutable Backups will free organizations from the hassle of physical tape libraries as well as eliminating the need for expensive “virtual tape libraries,” all while providing easily manageable backup chains. Veeam Immutable Backups are the equivalent of “air
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Before the power goes out If you know that you are going to lose power (as is the case when mains power has failed and you are running on UPS power) it’s always a good idea to begin to shut your VMs down, beginning with transactional VMs such as databases. Remember, if you shut it
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Recently I was configuring a customer’s IaaS VMware Cloud and one of the first things I noticed were some inconsistencies in the Port Group configuration across the 6 ESXi Hosts in the cluster. This is easy to see in vCenter, from the Networks view of Inventory and the Networks tab, simply compare the names of
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I have created several new Virtual Appliances from common Linux flavors and packaged them in OVA format for you use and enjoyment: Linux Mint Fedora Workstation Kali Linux During the build, I like to practice KISS with a view on real world use. For example, I have installed and configured the basic packages and utilities
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I spent all morning chasing an annoying error in Group Policy Management while trying to delete an old unused OU while logged in as Domain Admin: Group Policy Management Access is Denied I thought I would share the remarkably simple solution here, because I spent all morning following erroneous posts on various sites. Everyone seemed
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I’ve been harping about this for years, but a couple of recent customer situations have emphasized the importance of correct time/NTP configuration for all of your vSphere components. In one situation, incorrect time configuration almost completely broke a Nutanix Storage cluster! There was no problem with Nutanix or VMware, but rather networking challenges prevented the
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In an ideal world, management would provide unlimited funding to upgrade hardware continuously! We all know that’s not going to happen! Sometimes it is necessary to prolong the lifespan of servers as long as possible, particularly when they are extremely well-provisioned devices, even by today’s standards! Such is the case with our HP BL460 G7
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I was designing a customer vSAN deployment and I came across the guidelines and formula for calculating the required ESXi Coredump partition size: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2147881 Right away, I started working the formula for my customers deployment, when it occurred to me; this is WAY more complicated than it needs to be! VMware actually wants you to take
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