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!
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.
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!
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!
One of the great features that VMware vSphere has is Storage DRS, that as we can imagine, is similar to traditional DRS but with storage, This is, instead of distributing the count (CPU, RAM…), with Storage DRS we will be able to distribute the load of the datastores, balancing so much for performance (Latency to Datastore) and by space used. With this we will have fully distributed the load in terms of disk!
On VMware, One way to be able to catalog our storage is by using Storage policies. With them, among other things, We can initially create tags to tag our datastores, and then create storage policies based on certain conditions that the datastores meet. With this, we will be able to stop worrying about where we store the virtual machines individually and we will try to manage them based on their criticality, yield…
We will be able to continue with another automatic update process, and it is only once we have all the hosts updated to the version 6.5, We will need to update (in this order) VMware Tools and Virtual Machine Hardware. The latter perhaps more optional. We will do all this through Update Manager which, as we know, is embedded in the vCenter Server Appliance 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!
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'.
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!
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