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…

Using Enhanced Linked Mode in vSphere 6.5

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!

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'.

Migrating from vCenter Server to vCenter Server Appliance

With this great tool from VMware Labs, we will be able to migrate our vCenter server installed on Windows to the VMware vCenter Appliance linux appliance, will migrate the SQL Server database to vPostgres and all major services, interesting, isn't it? We will finally be able to easily migrate vCenter from Windos to Linux, with the savings that come with it on licenses!

Migrating from vCenter Server to vCenter Server Appliance

With this great tool from VMware Labs, we will be able to migrate our vCenter server installed on Windows to the VMware vCenter Appliance linux appliance, will migrate the SQL Server database to vPostgres and all major services, interesting, isn't it? We will finally be able to easily migrate vCenter from Windos to Linux, with the savings that come with it on licenses!