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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…

Upgrade de VMware vCenter Server Appliance 5.1 or 5.5 a 6.0

In this document, we'll look at the first step of migrating to VMware vSphere 6, we will update our vCenter server, in this case we will update the Linux-based appliance that we have in our organization (VCSA), which must be a version 5.1 U3 or 5.5. We'll follow these simple steps to update you to the 6.

VMware vCenter Log Insight

We already know that the collection of logs in our systems is essential to know the health of the state or to know possible problems, vCenter Log Insight is a log manager that allows us to automate the collection of logs and analyze the information from our vSphere system in a very simple way.

Migrate VMware vCenter 4.0 32bit to VMware vCenter 4.1 (64bit) + Update Manager

In this document, we'll look at how we can upgrade our VMware vCenter environment 4.0 to VMware vCenter 4.1, eye! we will take into account that in the source installation we have the vCenter in a 32 bits and (As we know) vCenter 4.1 can only be installed in systems of 64 Bit, therefore we are going to have to migrate all the configuration of a server (x86) to another (x64). If the source server is already 64 bit there would be so much complication. Once we have updated vCenter and its components to the 4.1 we will now be able to update the ESX hosts(i) a 4.1.

Using Host Profile in VMware vSphere

One way to help us in the configuration of our virtual environment is to rely on one of the new features that VMware vSphere brings 4, the ability to use already configured templates to apply to all our ESX hosts, or for when we add a new VMware ESX host to our virtual community, we can apply the same configurations that one of our hosts already has.. We can create a template from scratch by configuring everything manually or get said template from one of our servers already configured perfectly (being able to edit the profile if necessary), and then apply it to the rest of the hosts that do not meet the requirements that we indicate. This is called the VMware Host Profile.

Using Veeam Backup & Replication to make backups and replicas of our virtual environment

This Veeam product called Veeam Backup and Replication, offers us the possibility of both backups and replication of our VMware virtual environment, for both VMware Infrastructure 3 How to VMware vSphere 4 (VMware ESX or VMware ESXi, depending on the license purchased, that the product is paid for, but very cheap). It will allow us to make backups of the virtual machines that we indicate in the location that interests us, We will be able to keep as many copies of the same virtual machine as we are interested in, as Veeam will store them incrementally. Personally, what I like is the replication, since the backup is given to us by VCB or VMware Data Recovery, replication can be carried out in another storage array that we have and the replicated virtual machines will be optionally placed in the VMware inventory, just like backups, We can have so many replicas […]

How to Upgrade VMware vCenter 2.5 to VMware vCenter 4.0

If we want to have the new VMware virtualization technology, vSphere, with the new version of VMware ESX hosts, we will need to update our VMware vCenter Server virtual infrastructure management server. And this will have to be updated before updating our ESX host to the latest version. This procedure shows the steps to upgrade a VMware VirtualCenter server from the release 2.5 to the 4.0.