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dcli and orphaned VMs in vCenter Server inventory

dcli and orphaned VMs in vCenter Server inventory

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The orphaned VMs in vCenter inventory is an unusual view in experienced administrator’s Web/vSphere Client window. But in large environments, where many people manage hosts and VMs it will happen sometimes. You do know how to get rid of them using traditional methods described in VMware KB articles and by other well known bloggers, but there’s a quite elegant new method using dcli. This handy tool is available in vCLI package, in 6.5/6.7 vCSA shell and vCenter Server on Windows…

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VCSA monitoring and recovery options

VCSA monitoring and recovery options

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The new vCenter Server Appliance Management Interface is still accessed via port 5480 for any vCenter Server or Platform Services Controller appliance. This refreshed UI now includes additional resource utilization graphs to provide a simple-to-consume visualization of CPU, Memory, Disk, and Database metrics : Above screenshot to the right shows the new vCenter Database monitoring screen that provides some insight into the PostgreSQL database disk usage to help prevent crashes due to running out of space. There are also new…

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vSphere 6.5 – enhanced logging

vSphere 6.5 – enhanced logging

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  vSphere 6.5 introduces audit logging, before vSphere 6.5  logs were more focused on finding root causes of a problem – not releate deep  to IT operations or security use cases. For example, if a virtual machine was reconfigured from one storage adapter to another in logs we would find only “Virtual Machine <name> reconfigured”.  But now logs which are coming from vCenter via Syslog will contain data from vCenter Events. These logs will clearly show “Before” and “After” setting…

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vSphere 6.5 Installation – Part 2 – vCenter Server Appliance

vSphere 6.5 Installation – Part 2 – vCenter Server Appliance

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In the previous Part I of the series, I described the installation process of external PSC in vSphere 6.5.  In this part I’ll go through the process of vCenter Server appliance deployment. The first step is to download the vCSA ISO image and mount it for instance to your desktop. Inside the ISO image go to D:\vcsa-ui-installer\win32 and run the installer.exe. (This is the same ISO image used for PSC deployment). Then we choose the Install option, as you can see there are also…

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vSphere 6.5 Installation – Part 1 – External PSC

vSphere 6.5 Installation – Part 1 – External PSC

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This is the first part of the series describing the different options to install, restore and upgrade vSphere 6.5, especially the vCenter server. In this part we will describe the process of External PSC deployment. 1.The first step is to download the vCSA ISO image and mount it for instance to your desktop. Inside the ISO image go to D:\vcsa-ui-installer\win32 and run the installer.exe. 2. Then we choose the Install option, as you can see there are also available such option…

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vSphere 6.5 GA is now available to download!

vSphere 6.5 GA is now available to download!

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That’s the day most of us ( or at least me :)) were waiting for. It’s officialy available to download vSphere 6.5 GA. It can be downloaded directly from this page. Documentation can be found here. The most important features are: HTML 5 vSphere Client ProactiveHA Network-Aware DRS vCenter Backup and Restore Auto Deploy integraded with Web Client vSphere Update Manager built-in vCenter Server Appliance. General Storage, NFS and Network enhancements I guess that there aren’t many of you who…

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