Month: November 2017

Integrating vCenter Server Appliance 6.5 and its ESXi hosts in Active Directory

In this post we will be able to see how to configure authentication against our Active Directory in the VMware vSphere virtual platform. We'll enable it on the vCenter Server Appliance and ESXi hosts, so that you can assign access permissions to Active Directory users or groups. And so instead of using the default credentials (As we do wrongly); each employee will use their DA account, with the privileges that he should have, It will also be useful to see 'Who does what'.

NAKIVO Backup and Replication 7.3

I wanted to tell you that NAKIVO has just released its new version of the backup and replication solution for virtual environments! The New NAKIVO Backup and Replication 7.3 It allows, among other new features, to make backups from storage arrays with deduplication, increasing the speed of the VM backup up to 53 More times!

Deploying VMware vCenter Server Appliance 6.5

In this post you will learn how to deploy a VMware vCenter Server Appliance 6.5, By following the steps in this document, you will be able to have a vCenter server deployed on a Linux appliance in a virtual machine to manage your vSphere infrastructure, both hosts and VMs! It is a second basic document in a series of articles to come! I hope that if it is not in this, The next documents will be useful to you!

Monitoring thanks to snmpwalk

Continuing with documents on Nagios or Centreon, Let's go with a post that may be in common use, above all, when we need to monitor something by SNMP and the Internet gurus have not developed a script that we need. We will see then, how to query over SNMP what a device might 'spit out'’ Thanks to SNMPWALK and then we will monitor it! And at the end of the document we'll look at how to monitor the traffic of any network device that has SNMP enabled as well!

Installing VMware ESXi 6.5 + DCUI + Host Client

This is the first document in a series of posts where we will look at how to perfectly deploy and configure a VMware vSphere platform 6.5, in this document we will look at the simple installation of the ESXi hypervisor, plus a brief walk through its basic configuration with the DCUI and we will access your Host Client to manage it as well as your virtual machines. We will continue with other documents that will make us grow and optimize our environment!

Getting data from our Xiaomi Smart Scale with Raspberry Pi

If you have the Xiaomi Smart Scale scale, follow the steps in this document and you will be able to read your weight from a Raspberry Pi, by connecting via bluetooth we will store the records in a MySQL database, and so if we want we can exploit them super easily with Grafana! I will leave you with a series of documents that I think are very interesting to obtain information from different devices that control our life and visualize it in a super cool way!

Nagios – Monitoring our VMware vSphere VMs

In this document we will monitor interesting elements that we will obtain from our VMware vSphere-based virtual machines, centralizing in Nagios the checks we do to manage its values, Get alerts or generate graphs of your consumption. We will see, among other checks, in the VMs obtaining the values of their CPU Ready, CPU Wait, Memory Overhead, Memctl, Balloning, Write or read IOs…