Category: ESX / ESXi

Using Host Profiles in vSphere 6.5

Moving on to vSphere Docs 6.5, today we will look at Host Profiles, We'll use them to try to keep our hosts' configuration as similar as possible! We will create a profile based on a model host, and then apply that profile to all hosts in the cluster, With this we will be able to check if all the hosts have the same configuration or if there is a different configuration or that we have forgotten to apply... We will see in this document how to create such a reference profile and we will display 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.

Updating Hosts with vSphere Update Manager 6.5

As we already know, Update Manager is the VMware product that will keep the vSphere virtual infrastructure fully up to date. With UM we will be able to update the patches or versioning of ESXi hosts in a centralized and fully manageable way, as well as Virtual Machines or Virtual Appliances! We will see as an example how to update a host of the version 6.0 from ESXi to the 6.5 Update 1, for this, without moving from the chair, we will upload an ESXi image to Update Manager and install it to the hosts that need it!

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'.

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!

Nagios – Monitoring our ESXi hosts

In this document, we'll look at all the steps needed to be able to monitor an ESXi host, we will see the most common parameters and the values that we can obtain to have a controlled environment thanks to Nagios and Centreon! All the information we can obtain is amazing! In other documents we will see other information that we can obtain from vCenter and its VMs, Today the hosts are playing!

Upgrade to ESXi 6.5 and pre-upgrade checklist

In this document we will be able to follow the steps that will allow us to update our ESXi host to the latest version, the 6.5. See 3 Upgrade Options, A first, Surely the most used by everyone, which is through a package that allows us to update offline, by command line in the fastest way; a second way that is similar to the previous one but online, downloading the updater directly from the VMware website and finally the traditional, The simplest, which is via CD, USB or iLO!