I started using the VMware Photon based appliances to deploy vCenter services (VCSA) and PSC with the 6.5 version several months ago. It's really stable and I appreciate to use it daily and to replace the windows based services with the appliance ones. But a couple of days ago, I had a bad suprise in a lab environment …

SII Ouest VMware team has published a PowerCli Cheatsheet with most common commands of the VMware PowerShell SDK to manage vSphere environments. The cheat sheet is open-sourced and published in the SII Group GitHub page. Online html version is available in the following page : cheat-sheets/powercli Printable PDF can be …

In order to fully configure a virtual machine after a clone of OVF deployment, it may be useful to use settings from virtualization layer in the guest OS: for example to run Guest OS customization as already discussed in this blog. Today, we will focus on OVF properties. Presentation of OVF properties If you deploy …

In this article, we will see how to create, commit, revert-to virtual machine snapshots from ESXi command line. We will also talk about the very useful "linked clones" that are related to the snapshot feature. Prerequisites You only need to have a running VM on the ESXi and to know its Vmid: 1 $ vim-cmd …

Now that we've seen how to create a nested-ESXi on virtualbox, we may need to have some content in order to test commands of procedures. Local datastore Disk creation To create a local datastore, you'll have to add a new virtual disk to your nested ESXi: First step is to create a SATA disk controller: Add a SATA …

For testing cases it could be very useful to host a nested (= virtualized) VMware ESXi on your desk or laptop machine. For my own needs, I had to install an ESXi on virtualbox. Here is my tutorial. Installation Prerequisites In order to install an ESXi 5.5 you'll have to provide: 64-bit x86 processor with at least 2 …

Un petit article plus, pour me rappeler moi même de la manipulation que pour vraiment générer du contenu sur ce blog. Ce matin j'ai eu à changer, sur un vCenter Server, le mot de passe par lequel le service communique avec sa base de données, voici la manipulation. Changer l'utilisateur de BDD (si nécessaire) Pour …

Lorsqu'on gère plusieurs centaines de machines virtuelles, templates, virtual-appliance etc., on a pas spécialement envie de se palucher à la main, les opérations de mises-à-jour systématiques. En plus si vous cotoyez des gus comme @fdibot, ça devient carrément un sacrilège d'envisager de faire à la main ce genre …