Using Content Libraries in vSphere 6.5

Something interesting when we are interested in being a little tidy and we want to have a repository with our OVF images, ISO or virtual machine templates... are Content Libraries. Which are nothing more than spaces where we will leave said content and we can access it from anywhere, This way our entire department will always use the same images and we will avoid leaving traces through the datastores as we have been doing until now.

Sebastian, Beer with lemon

In this document we will see two things, one we will learn how to use Wunderlist by command line to add items to our task lists, shopping… and then through our voice we can indicate to a Raspberry Pi that is listening with a microphone to add these items to us. I base myself on an example that I have in the kitchen, than when we want to add something to the shopping list, We tell you!

Backing up the vCenter Server Appliance

Continuing with the series of posts on vSphere 6.5, in this document we will be able to see another of the novelties that VMware vSphere brought us with its version 6.5, which is nothing more than the possibility of backing up our vCenter Server! In this post, we'll look at how to set up your backup and make backups and we'll also look at how to recover a vCenter Server Appliance if necessary! I hope you enjoy it!

Replacing Certificates in vSphere 6.5

To be able to manage certificates in vSphere 6.5, we'll see how to use the tool we have to manage the vCenter Server Certificate Authority. We must make the CA that brings the PSC a subordinate entity of our own CA of the domain and generate certificates in which we do trust and so not even the browsers will trust and other dependencies. At the end of the document, we'll look at how to change ESXi and vCenter certificates.

Nagios – Monitoring Windows Counters

Something super useful is that thanks to Nagios, we will be able to monitor any performance counter of a Windows machine, Yes, any! We just need to know which one! We all know that the Performance Monitor of a Windows is super powerful and we have counters that allow us to analyze any parameter that we surely need. We can take this and centralize it to monitor from Nagios / Centreon.

Configurando VMware vSphere Replication 6.5

Continuing with the VMware vSphere series of posts 6.5, Today we will look at something quite important, Replicating virtual machines to our virtual infrastructure, How to protect ourselves against a disaster in our datacenter. We will initially configure the requirements and then we will see how to replicate a virtual machine and how to make a recovery or failover if necessary!

Using Enhanced Linked Mode in vSphere 6.5

In this document, We will see how to dispose of 2 separate vCenters servers, each in their virtual appliance and 1 Platform Service Controller in common. It will be a very common scenario when we have a physically separate environment and we want to manage several vCenter servers from the same console! We will see the order to deploy and have Enhanced Linked Mode enabled in our infrastructure!

Nagios – Monitoring active processes on Windows or Linux

Very good! I leave you with a document that will be of help to us as long as we want to verify that we have a program running on any computer in our organization. We will see the necessary steps to be able to monitor if a remote computer, whether Windows or Linux, has any process running, and alert us in case of its fall. In addition, if we are interested, we could monitor its CPU or RAM consumption., all this only through SNMP!