Upgrading vCenter Server Appliance VCSA with External PSC from 6.0 U3 to 6.5 U1 then to 6.5 U2

we will take about upgrading vCenter Server Appliance with External PSC from 6.0 u3b to 6.5 U1e we done this upgrade before the release of 6.5 U2  which was released few day's before Release note so we upgrade to 6.5 U2 before we upgrade to 6.5 you must be prepare the for that : Source System…

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VMware vSphere 6.7 – What’s New

Last Day VMware launched vSphere 6.7 and there are lots of new enhancements in this release  , This release of VMware vSphere 6.7 includes ESXi 6.7 and vCenter Server 6.7. Read about the new and enhanced features in this release in What's New in VMware vSphere 6.7. let take a look of some of the New Features on vSphere…

[Solved] : vCenter Appliance root Partition 100% full , plus Unable to log in to the root account

this week we have faced an issue with our vCenter Appliance , we got warring message at vCenter as showing below when we try to login via ssh to check this issue login fail , and also Immediate session timeout when logging into vCenter Server Appliance Web Console (VAMI) because the root account password expired…

Processor Vulnerabilities – Meltdown and Spectre effected VMware products

Vulnerabilities potentially impacting all major processor vendors were disclosed today by Google Project Zero. These vulnerabilities have been named Meltdown (CVE-2017-5754) and Spectre (CVE-2017-5753 & CVE-2017-5715). Organizations should inventory their systems by processor type, apply vendor patches as they become available, and track their progress Overview Meltdown allows any application to access all system memory, including memory allocated for the kernel.…

The Way To PowerCLI : Retrieve VMs IP Addresses

we back again after break , today my first post in 2018 wish to all of you happy new year full of joy and all you wishes become true so today we will be talking about how to retrieve VMs IP Address You can get the IP addresses for VMs from  the virtual machine guest…

[Solved] : Failed to open disk scsi0:0: Unsupported and/or invalid disk type 7

i have got this error "Failed to open disk scsi0:0: Unsupported and/or invalid disk type 7. Did you forget to import the disk first?" while powering on a Virtual machine was imported from Workstation so how to solve this error first the Cause of this Error  This issue occurs if a virtual machine that is…

VMware’s Acquisition of SD-WAN Startup VeloCloud

In November 2017, VMware announced the intent to acquire VeloCloud, the market leader in cloud-delivered SD-WAN that enables enterprises and service providers to deploy flexible, secure WAN connectivity. VeloCloud’s cloud-delivered SD-WAN enables enterprises to securely support application growth, network agility, and simplified branch and end-point implementations while delivering high-performance, reliable access to cloud services, private…

The Way To PowerCLI : Create ,Delete and consolidate Snapshots

Virtual machine snapshots are useful , since they  preserve the state of a virtual machine’s virtual disk and, optionally, virtual memory before upgrading an application for example. VM Snapshots are also taken by a lot of backup applications for VMs at the start of the backup and then removed at the end of the backup like "EMC Avamar".…

Initializing PowerCLI Modules in PowerShell ISE

starting from vSphere 6.0 release VMware has started using modules instead of PSSnapins in their distribution model of PowerCLI so today we are going to show how to load PowerCli Module in PowerShell ISE The PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE) easy to use with VMware PowerCLI. When  writing  a script or a one-liner, one of the…

The Way To PowerCLI : Creating Virtual Machines

One of the most basic things you will do within VMware infrastructure is creating virtual machines. Adding one new virtual machine like this is fine, but if you are going to create multi-VM it's better to use script Using New-VM In PowerCLI, the New-VM cmdlet is used to create a new virtual machine. A few…