Category: VMware

vLeaderConnect EP1: In conversation with Joe Beda

Hello and welcome everyone, "There is always a first time for everything," #vLeaderConnect was the same experience for us at VMUG Pune. I proposed this idea to all the committee members during one of our internal discussion. The sole objective of vLeaderConnect was to get an insight into how the technical leaders carry themselves, personally … Continue reading vLeaderConnect EP1: In conversation with Joe Beda →

vSphere 7.0 : DRS Re-Designed

Although vsphere 7.0 is a major enhancement in itself with lots of new features added like Kubernetes (Project Pacific), vCenter Server Profiles, vsphere Lifecycle Manager(vLCM), Certificate Management, Refactored vMotion etc. But the one that caught my eye and is completely re-designed after a span of 15 years is DRS (Distributed Resource Scheduler). How DRS used … Continue reading vSphere 7.0 : DRS Re-Designed →

PSProvider and VMware datastore – PowerCLI

Hello everyone, I am writing this short blog after a long time. While explaining in-out of PowerShell to some of my friends in person, I discussed about PSProviders. Most of the knowledge about PSProvider is information only and as a script writer we dont really bother about how powershell is playing with different resources (Variable/function/Filesystem/Registery … Continue reading PSProvider and VMware datastore – PowerCLI →

Automate VMFS6 Upgrade – Update-VMfsdatastore cmdlet

By now you must be switching onto vSphere 6.5. During this time you would have also figured it out that there is no online upgrade for VMFS5 to VMFS6, which means that there is a little bit of planning would require to upgrade your VMFS datastores to VMFS6 version. As of now, the most common … Continue reading Automate VMFS6 Upgrade – Update-VMfsdatastore cmdlet →

vCenter Server Appliance 6.5 : Way forward!

It's quite evident that with the release of vSphere 6.5, VMware has bet on linux centric approach. vCenter Server appliance is in existence since the release of vSphere 5.0 , however there were few gaps in terms of capacity. vCSA 5.x was supported with embedded PostgrSQL database and only 100 hosts per vCenter were supported. … Continue reading vCenter Server Appliance 6.5 : Way forward! →