This week we bring a fundamental chapter for all of us who work with the VMware vSphere part, So if that's your case, We think it might be interesting for you to listen to it, It can be interesting to listen to 75 good practices and see how they apply in your environment. A podcast 100% where we go down to the Barrillo!
We have a new Podcast! On this occasion, Federico Cinalli and I will talk about the great new features that VMware has presented in this new version just published, we'll be talking about what's new in vSphere 7, vSAN 7 o Cloud Foundation 4 among others. As always, we hope it will be of interest to you!
If we want to provide full high availability to a virtual machine, we will enable Fault Tolerance or FT. With FT we will be able to allow a VM in the event of a failure of a host or the storage where it is executed to fall, Don't worry., since the VM is replicated to another host and another datastore. The magic of FT will cause us to only lose a single packet against the VM!
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!
Something interesting when we are interested in being a little tidy and we want to have a repository with our OVF images, ISO or virtual machine templates... are Content Libraries. Which are nothing more than spaces where we will leave said content and we can access it from anywhere, This way our entire department will always use the same images and we will avoid leaving traces through the datastores as we have been doing until now.
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.
Continuing with the VMware vSphere series of posts 6.5, Today we will look at something quite important, Replicating virtual machines to our virtual infrastructure, How to protect ourselves against a disaster in our datacenter. We will initially configure the requirements and then we will see how to replicate a virtual machine and how to make a recovery or failover if necessary!
One of the great features that VMware vSphere has is Storage DRS, that as we can imagine, is similar to traditional DRS but with storage, This is, instead of distributing the count (CPU, RAM…), with Storage DRS we will be able to distribute the load of the datastores, balancing so much for performance (Latency to Datastore) and by space used. With this we will have fully distributed the load in terms of disk!
We will be able to continue with another automatic update process, and it is only once we have all the hosts updated to the version 6.5, We will need to update (in this order) VMware Tools and Virtual Machine Hardware. The latter perhaps more optional. We will do all this through Update Manager which, as we know, is embedded in the vCenter Server Appliance 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!
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