vShield Manager enables centralized management of vShield components in the network, is a virtual applicance installed on one of our ESXi hosts (one per vCenter). From its management console we can install, configure (or perform maintenance) on vShield components. In this first document we will see the deployment of this appliance and its initial configuration,
VMware vShield is a component that adds security by protecting virtual data centers from potential attacks or misuse through a set of security virtual appliances built for VMware vSphere. In a series of articles we will see the deployment of the products that make it up: vShield Manager, vShield App, vShield App with Data Security, vShield Edge and vShield Endpoint.
Another of the new features brought by vSphere 5, It is the possibility of centrally storing the dumps or dumps of memory that our hosts suffer on a network server, VMware Introduces ESXi Dump Collector Tool, In this document we will see how we can simply configure it,
One of the new features of vSphere 5 is the possibility of centralizing the logs of our ESXi hosts on a Syslog server thanks to the VMware Syslog Collector tool. It will allow us to store as many logs as we are interested in, allowing greater agility when looking for solutions to possible problems we have.
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!
One of VMware's new storage features in vSphere 5 en Profile-Driven Storage, By configuring a series of profiles and labels we can define the characteristics of our datastores. We will be able to define our warehouses according to their performance, availability, value… to later store the virtual machines in them depending on the quality of service that we want/must offer. When creating a VC, migrating it from datastore or cloning it, vCenter will show us the compatible datastores where we will store the VM, thus avoiding any human error,
It is one of the new features of vSphere 5, It is a pool of datastores that will help us to manage the datastores together, always obtaining the best result to locate a virtual machine and thus have a higher performance at the disk level since it will always offer us recommendations to choose the lightest datastore. It will also analyze and generate recommendations for moving virtual machines between the different datastores in the cluster.
Onyx is an app (beta) that will allow us to obtain PowerCLI code to be able to use it later; is presented as a proxy between the VMware vSphere Client and the vCenter Server, monitors traffic passing between the two and converts it into PowerShell code, being able only with the movement of the mouse, generate our own scripts with the intention of automating tasks or to know a function/command in a simple way…
Like all of the ones we regularly use, Veeam Backup & Replication, We know that for now we can't save our backups to tape drives directly since Veeam works backups at the disk level. An alternative/idea is the one we can see in this document with the intention of taking our backups to tape,
vSphere Auto Deploy will allow us to massively deploy ESXi hosts 5 via PXE on our network, for this we will need to previously have a custom ESXi image to send to our hosts, que la podremos generar con Image Builder. Auto Deploy se instalará en una máquina Windows si es que no tenemos VMware vCenter Server Appliance (that is already installed); and finally we will need Host Profiles; since through them we will apply the configurations on the hosts that boot through PXE (or alternatively we can use response files), these servers would not need a hard drive as they load it into RAM. This is totally ultimate in large environments to quickly and massively deploy ESXi hosts, being able to have centralized and non-distributed configuration (manual) on each host, having our ESXi image fully customized at the driver level, update…
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