VMware Cloud – Deployment

Morning! welcome to virtualcloudblog.com and thanks for checking it out.  Today, I’ll write this post about VMware on AWS.   Today we’ll start with the SDDC cluster installation: SDDC Deployment Let’s go Console and then Services and select “VMware Cloud on AWS” Go to SDDCs, and Create SDDC.   Now let’s start with the SDDC Configuration, in my […]

VMware – Skyline

Morning! welcome to virtualcloudblog.com and thanks for checking it out.  Today, I’ll write this post about VMWare Skyline. What is VMware Skyline? VMware Skyline is an automated, proactive support technology that helps customers avoid problems before they occur and reduce time to resolution of active support requests. For customers, VMware Skyline can increase team productivity […]

VMware NSX – How to deploy a NSX Edge + NAT

Hello all, welcome to virtualcloudblog.com and thanks for checking it out. Today, it’s time to NSX, and I’ll try to explain how to deploy a NSX Edge (high availability enabled) with source NAT (SNAT)  and destination NAT (DNAT). Let me add some NSX basic knowledge to keep everybody in sync. What is NSX? NSX is a VMware […]

DELL ScaleIO – Increase / Map / Unmap new volume

Hello gents, welcome to virtualcloudblog.com and thanks for checking it out. Today, I’ll write another post about DELL ScaleIO. Today I’ll try to explain how to increase/map/unmap ScaleIO volumes from Vmware perspective. The process is quite simple, similar than other SDS vendors. Steps to increase volume size Go to ScaleIO GUI,  using the admin, admin pass and […]

VMware – How to upgrade vSphere Data Protection 6

First of all, welcome to virtualcloudblog.com and thanks for checking it out. Today, I’ll show you how to upgrade VMware DAta Protection 6.1 to 6.1.7. which was released 20 February, 2018. New release includes the following VMware and Restores issues: VMware Issues Support for routed / NAT / Firewall / IDS / TSNR between the vSphere Data […]

vSAN – Storage Provider

Buenos dias! Gracias por visitar virtualcloudblog.com; hoy escribo este post relaccionado con vSAN y los Stoarage Providers. Un poco de teoria:  vSAN storage providers are built-in software components that communicate datastore capabilities to vCenter Server. A storage capability typically is represented by a key-value pair, where the key is a specific property offered by the datastore. The value […]

vCenter – How to upgrade VCSA 6.5U1 to VCSA 6.5U1f

Morning all, First of all, welcome to virtualcloudblog.com and thanks for checking it out. Today, I’ll show you how to upgrade the VCSA from 6.5U1 to 6.5U1f  (build number 7801515). This release patches the vCSA operating system (Photon OS) mainly against two vulnerabilities: bounds-check bypass (Spectre-1, CVE-2017-5753) and rogue data cache load issues (Meltdown, CVE-2017-5754). As […]

vSAN – Which driver ESXi host is using?

Hello all, Today, I’ll show you how to know which driver and version we are using in our ESXs. Connect to the ESXi using SSH. Run the following command to understand which driver host is using.

In our case, the host is using megaraid_perc9. This driver is not supported, so we need to disable […]