ESX System Analyzer

ESX System Analyzer is a virtual appliance that will allow us to obtain detailed reports of our current ESX infrastructure, to see if we could migrate to a vSphere environment 4.1 or 5.0 (with ESXi hosts, Of course). These reports, presented in spreadsheets, show us a full host-level analysis, VMs and datastores,

VMware vSphere Authentication Proxy

Already in a previous document of the version 4.1 we saw as a novelty that we could include our ESXi hosts in an Active Directory to authenticate directly with centralized accounts; one of the new features of vSphere 5 is the possibility of deploying an intermediate proxy between the hosts and our domain. All this to help in the deployment with Auto Deploy not to put users with passwords in configuration files, we will also be able to use it with hosts not deployed with Auto Deploy!

vCenter Host Agent Pre-Upgrade Checker

Antes de actualizar nuestra infraestructura VMware vSphere a la versión VMware vSphere 5 (nuestros hosts a ESXi 5.0) debemos ejecutar una utilidad que tenemos en el DVD de VMware vSphere 5, donde podremos comprobar sin paradas de servicio si nuestros host ESXi son compatibles para una posible actualización de versión (de VMware ESXi 4.x a VMware ESXi 5.0) gracias a vCenter Agent Pre-upgrade Check tool.

Installing VMware ESXi 5

With the intention of making a series of articles that show us all the elements of the new version of vSphere 5 We will see different articles (more or less simple as this one is); where we will see the installation of the new VMware ESXi hypervisor 5, In this case we will carry out an interactive and manual installation, since we could deploy it massively over the network. Before doing so, we must prepare the installation medium CD/DVD or via a USB device.

VMware ESXi Network Installation 5 using PXELINUX and configuration files

En este documento veremos cómo desplegar o realizar instalaciones de red de VMware ESXi 5 usando PXELINUX y archivos de configuración mediante PXE, utilizaremos un servidor DHCP que será el encargado del direccionamiento, un servidor TFTP para transmitir las imágenes mediante PXE, ficheros de configuración de los hosts (optional) en el arranque de los hosts, con esto conseguiremos de una forma automatizada disponer de tantos hosts ESXi como necesitemos de forma instantánea,

Virtualizing Android on VMware

A veces tenemos la necesidad de testear ciertas apps bajo sistemas operativos diseñados exclusivamente para dispositivos móviles, in this document we will see how we can run Android (the S.O. 'Now’ from Google) under a VMware virtual machine. This document is valid for both virtualizing Android under VMware ESXi and VMware WorkStation,

Backing up VMware ESXi configuration

Once our hosts have been configured, it is advisable to keep a backup copy of their configuration, an easy way to back up the entire configuration of an ESXi host is by using the VMware vMA appliance or by using the VMware vSphere CLI (vCLI). Once we have the backup, we can restore it if necessary in a simple way, we will also see another command to reset ESXi hosts to factory values.

Upgrade VMware ESXi 4.0 a 4.1 manually

Algo típico de estos días es ir actualizando nuestros entornos virtuales a la versión 4.1 los que tengan VMware ESXi 4.0 y quieran migrarlos a VMware ESXi 4.1, en este documento vemos cómo actualizar los host que tengamos descentralizados de una forma rápida pero manual, lo realizaremos mediante VMware vSphere CLI (Command-Line Interface) y bajándonos el fichero a que nos permitirá dicha actualización.