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!

Fortigate VM

For all those who don't know him here's this post, Introducing the Fortinet Virtual Appliance, the Fortigate-VM firewall, in virtual machine format will provide us with all the advantages of having the Fortigate firewall virtualized in our network (high availability, Cross-network FW, Backup/Replica…) Of course,, only for VMware vSphere environments!

VMware vCenter Server Appliance

One of the new features of vSphere 5 es la disponibilidad de un nuevo virtual appliance con VMware vCenter Server 5 in it, es una máquina linux por lo que ya quitamos la necesidad de tener un Windows consumiendo licencias para gestionar un entorno virtual de VMware de forma centralizada. Este nuevo appliance virtual llamado VMware vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA) nos ahorrará dinero en gastos de implementación, mantenimiento y sobre todo licencias Windows, en este documento veremos cómo podemos desplegarlo en apenas unos minutos (la instalación y configuración),

Using VMware vMA

In this document, we'll look at the VMware virtual appliance called VMware Management Assistance (VMware vMA), is based on a CentOS distribution 5.2 with vCLI, CIM, Java JRE, vSphere SDK for Perl and vSphere SDK for Java, is a script-based management appliance for our virtual environment.. VMware vMA is a great utility to replace the Service Console and be able to manage our ESXi or vCenter hosts more easily and centrally through scripts/tasks, We can configure it as a log server, Backup, ESX distribution via PXE…