Tag: vCenter

Collecting VMware vCSA LOGs in Elasticsearch and Visualizing Them in Grafana

¡Come! Another one of logs please! This time we will see how to exploit the Logs of our beloved VMware vSphere environment, from the vCSA or vCenter Server Appliance we will redirect the logs to Logstash to be processed and stored in Elasticsearch, finally we will be able to visualize them in a more graphic way with Grafana. This way we will understand in real time what is happening or we will be able to have reports with the data of the last 24 hours, week, month… Fully customizable, free…

Backing up the vCenter Server Appliance

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!

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'.

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!