Ansible is a well known software to automates software provisioning, configuration management, and application deployment. In concrete terms, it's possible to manage infrastructure deployment and configuration during life cycle from sets of configuration files. In the following post, I will try to explain how to use it …
Read MoreIn a previous post, I've already talk about an issue occuring in a lab environment with vCSA 6.5u0 and PSC appliance : VCSA or PSC appliance won't boot after hard shutdown. As the issue became more regular with time, I tried to figure out the root cause of those events. As system's logs reports SCSI timeout on write …
Read MoreWhen you install a VMware vCloud Director instance, it comes with an embedded JRE (Java Runtime Environment). For example, vCloud Director includes JRE 1.8.0_121 : 1$VCLOUD_HOME/jre/bin/java -version 2java version "1.8.0_121" 3Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_121-b13) 4Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server …
Read MoreVMware introduced in version 5.5 of vCloud Director, a feature to externaly expose catalogs and if necessary, to subscribe to an externaly exposed one. This is useful to synchronize catalog between two (or more) vCloud Director instances. Basic usage The two following sections are extracts from the VMware documentation …
Read MoreI 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 …
Read MoreSII 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 …
Read MoreIn 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 …
Read MoreIn 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 …
Read MoreNow 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 …
Read MoreFor 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 …
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