VMware WSX

A tool that can help us simplify our connectivity to our virtual infrastructure is VMware WSX, This small web server, it will allow us to connect from any device with an HTML5-compatible browser to our virtual machines, either to manage it or to VDI desktops in the case of our end users.

Installing and Configuring VMware vCenter Operations Manager

This document will try to show the deployment of a tool that may be little used yet but with a very good potential and certainly a very useful tool to complete our vSphere infrastructure. This is vCenter Operations Manager which will allow us to configure it to see the life status of our virtualization services, as well as being able to locate trends of failure or decrease in available resources based on the growth detected.

VMware vSphere Health Check Report

These weeks I had to perform several tasks on a vSphere 4.x infrastructure, One of them was to document and export all its configuration, for this I used VMware vSphere Health Check Report 5.0.2, What is amazing when it comes to making this type of inventories couples therapy los angeles ! Nothing, I publish the two steps that must be done to get a complete report as well as a quick example!

vSphere Data Protection

One of the new features of vSphere 5.1 was the introduction of vSphere Data Protection (since vSphere Data Recovery is discontinued), a new virtual machine backup and recovery software for our vSphere virtual infrastructure 5.1. Like VMware Data Recovery uses VADP (vSphere API for Data Protection) with CBT (Changed Blocks Tracking), but it also uses EMC Avamar's variable block-level deduplication to optimize copies and restores. Provide deduplication together to all appliance tasks and VMs. It is fully integrated with the vSphere Web Client and will provide the possibility of file recovery to end users.

VMware Horizon Application Manager

In this document, we'll look at deploying VMware Horizon Application Manager, which is a web portal where we will have two interfaces, one for management and one for our users, where we can present our ThinApp applications. Relying on a SaaS cloud service (Software as a Service) users will be able to open the ThinApp applications they need in a very simple way. Also with the recent version of VMware ThinApp, we will be able to integrate our packages more easily with the Horizon App Manager portal.

ESX System Analyzer

ESX System Analyzer is a virtual appliance that will allow us to obtain detailed reports of our current ESX infrastructure, to see if we could migrate to a vSphere environment 4.1 or 5.0 (with ESXi hosts, Of course). These reports, presented in spreadsheets, show us a full host-level analysis, VMs and datastores,

Installing the vShield App

Como ya vimos en el documento anterior, desplegamos nuestro vShield Manager para poder gestionar nuestro entorno vShield, en este documento desplegaremos el appliance firewall vShield App para proteger mediante reglas de red el acceso entre nuestras máquinas virtuales, desplegaremos un vShield App por cada host.