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!

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!

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!