Rahim Abdul Shaikh

NSX Controller Disk Check

2021-11-15T07:25:00.002-08:00

Many times I have seen that NSX controllers disk get full due to logs. We cannot performed this log cleanup without VMware support.

Below are the steps which can be performed after login into NSX controllers

show status
(This command will show us the status of disk utilization)

#cd /var/log/core

#df -h

# cd /var/log

# ls -ltr

(Below commands can be performed only when you are with VMware support)

st en

IAmOnThePhoneWithTechSupport

(Below command can will give you password for root account)

/home/secureall/secureall/sem/WEB-INF/classes/GetNvpApiPassword.sh controller-2

: debug os-shell

(Remmeber the : is part of command)

and type passwrod from above sh command

restart the syslog service

/usr/bin/systemctl restart rsyslog.service

Fix vRealize log insight admin password reset

2021-10-19T14:09:00.001-07:00

To Reset the passwor you can use the SSH to box with root account and run the password below.

Establish an SSH connection to the vRealize Log Insight virtual appliance and log in as the root user.

Run the script that resets the Admin user password:

li-reset-admin-passwd.sh

If your account is getting locked then you will have to update the DATABASE to unlock the admin account.

The script resets the Admin user password, generates a new password, and displays it on the screen.

Look up cassandra creds

/usr/lib/loginsight/application/lib/apache-cassandra-*/bin/credentials-look-up

log in to cassandra
/usr/lib/loginsight/application/lib/apache-cassandra-*/bin/cqlsh -u lisuper -p <password_from_first_step> --cqlshrc=/storage/core/loginsight/cidata/cassandra/config/cqlshrc

turn on vertical query results
expand on;

use vRLI DB
use logdb;

find admin user status and id
select id,status from user where user_name='admin' allow filtering;

if status is 2, change it back to 1
update user set status=1 where id=<id_from_previous_step>;

verify change
select id,status from user where user_name='admin' allow filtering;

2021 Flash End of Life & End of Support - vSphare Client Workaround

2021-02-05T03:14:00.003-08:00

As flash is end of life and end of support in 2021 many of you are not able to use the vSphere web client flash-based.

I still have some of my vCenter servers on 6.5 which support the VMware HTML5 web client however to manage some of my NSX 6.3.x task is not supported on it.

I have manged to run vSphere client on my chrome and internet explorer as workaround and below are the steps you need to perform.

https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/78589

To work this successful you need to make sure that you still have flash installed on your system

Internet explorer is using flash installed on system.

Chrome has its own flash installed in another location.

Check out the dates in the screenshot.

Never click on the update plugin you need to click on the Run this time button

Here are the actual steps you need to do.

Make sure your chrome still has settings for flash if not then you have upgraded your browser, you need to downgrade it to version 86.x

run chrome://version command in address bar and validate the flash version and path.

Create new file under below path with the name "mms.cfg"

%windir%\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash\mms.cfg

and

%localappdata%\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Pepper Data\Shockwave Flash\System\mms.cfg

(you will have to create system folder here if its not there)

Copy and paste below code in the file. (mms.cfg)

EOLUninstallDisable=1
EnableAllowList=1
AllowListPreview=1
AllowListUrlPattern=https://FQDN_Of_The_vCENTER_System/

Below are the location for the different browsers

Operating System and Browser	Location
Google Chrome on Windows	%localappdata%\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Pepper Data\Shockwave Flash\System\mms.cfg
Edge Chromium on Windows	%localappdata%\Microsoft\Edge\User Data\Default\Pepper Data\Shockwave Flash\System\mms.cfg
32-bit Windows	%windir%\System32\Macromed\Flash\mms.cfg
64-bit Windows	%windir%\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash\mms.cfg
MacOS	/Library/Application Support/Macromedia
Google Chrome on MacOS	/Users/<username>/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Pepper Data/Shockwave Flash/System

Restart your browser and start using vSphere web client with flash.

Make sure to disable the auto update on Chrome and Firefox or it will stop working after upgarde.

Google chrome uses its own flash path if you upgrade chrome it will delete flash dll files which will not let you download the flash again.

Need any help? post comment.

List of All vCenter Services and their functions

2020-10-20T07:58:00.004-07:00

We all perform vCenter validation and troubleshooting based on issues or checks; there are many important and optional services which I want to document though my blog post so we can review them if required.

please feel free to add your comments if you want to discuss more in details.

Below KB article from VMware is very importent for starting / stopping VMware vCenter services.

https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2109881

Always make sure that you are in BASH prompt before running command

SSH connection to vCenter

Lets talk about the service name and its description, there are many services will be running or stopped based on feature you are using on vCenter like VSAN or Auto deploy

1. vmware-imagebuilder- VMware Image Builder Manager is optional service and can be down if you are not using the VMware Auto Deploy feature.

2 vmware-cm- VMware Component Manager is mandatory service for vCenter functionality.

3 vmware-vpxd- VMware vCenter Server NO COMMENT LOL

4 vmware-sps- VMware vSphere Profile-Driven Storage Service is optional unless you are using feature

5 applmgmt- VMware Appliance Management Service is mandatory service for vCenter functionality.

6 vmware-statsmonitor- VMware Appliance Monitoring Service is mandatory service for vCenter functionality.

7 vmware-rhttpproxy- VMware HTTP Reverse Proxy is mandatory service for vCenter functionality.

8 vmware-vapi-endpoint VMware vAPI Endpoint is mandatory service for vCenter functionality.

9 lwsmd Likewise Service Manager is mandatory service for vCenter functionality.

10 vmafdd VMware Authentication Framework is mandatory service for vCenter functionality.

11 vmware-vsm VMware vService Manager is mandatory service for vCenter functionality.

12 vmonapi VMware Service Lifecycle Manager API is mandatory service for vCenter functionality.

13 vmware-perfcharts VMware Performance Charts is mandatory service for vCenter functionality.

14 vmware-updatemgr VMware Update Manager is optional service for vCenter functionality.

15 vmware-vmon VMware Service Lifecycle Manager is mandatory service for vCenter functionality.

16 vmware-vsan-health VMware VSAN Health Serviceo is optional service for vCenter functionality; can be down if you are not using VSAN.

17 vsphere-client VMware vSphere Web Client no need to talk about this.

18 vmware-vpostgres VMware Postgres its required for vCenter database

19 vmware-eam VMware ESX Agent Manager is mandatory service for vCenter functionality.

20 vmcam VMware vSphere Authentication Proxy is mandatory service for vCenter functionality.

21 vmware-mbcs VMware Message Bus Configuration Service is mandatory service for vCenter
functionality.

22 vmware-vcha VMware vCenter High Availability is mandatory service for vCenter functionality.

23 vsphere-ui VMware vSphere Client is mandatory service for vCenter functionality.

24 vmware-content-library VMware Content Library Service is mandatory service for vCenter
functionality.

25 vmware-sca VMware Service Control Agent is mandatory service for vCenter functionality.

26 vmware-netdumper VMware vSphere ESXi Dump Collector is mandatory service for vCenter functionality.

27 vmware-vpxd-svcs VMware vCenter-Services is mandatory service for vCenter functionality.

28 vmware-rbd-watchdog VMware vSphere Auto Deploy Waiter is optional service for vCenter functionality.

vCenter root password expired

2020-10-20T02:17:00.003-07:00

With VMware vCenter appliance 6.5 default root password is set to expire after 365 days and if you don't change it within time you may need to work on troubleshooting on resetting password.

Below is screenshot of commands which you can set the password expire day to 99999 days.

First command will shows the details about root user

change -l root

Second command will set the password expire in days; you can set eh numbers as per your choice.

change -I -1 -m 0 -M 99999 -E -1 root

Best practice to reset all admin credentials monthly or after every 60 days to keep your environment safe and secure from all types of attacks.

Newly Cloned VM Getting Disconected From Network

2020-09-04T03:41:00.003-07:00

Toady I cloned one Virtual Machine to create another VM but those two new VM's which I cloned were getting disconnected again and again.

Both VM's were running on diffrent ESXi hosts, everything was good from NSX and DV Switch side.

Both were having different IP address and correct porgroup configure.

When I checked further I found that both VM's were having same MAC address and MAC conflict was causing this issue.

Inside of VM settings I found MAC address on VM NIC was set to Manual.

To fix the issue I set the MAC address from Manual to Automatic and Restarted the VM's and Problem was fixed!!!

AWS Certified Solution Architect - Passed!!!

2019-05-08T04:52:00.001-07:00

Good News ! Last week I manage to pass AWS Architect Exam and I would like to share my experience which may help you to pass the exam.

Exam is challenging and easy too, if you know all products and features from AWS console it will be very easy for you if not you know the answer.

Preparation -

I used Pluralsight training to learn and practice all lab practicals, though I have also completed professional training from AWS you will have to perform each and every lab form AWS.

https://app.pluralsight.com/library/courses/aws-certified-solutions-architect-associate/table-of-contents

https://app.pluralsight.com/library/courses/aws-certified-solutions-architect-professional/table-of-contents

I will recommend to read and understand Cheat Sheets by

TutorialsDojo

https://tutorialsdojo.com/aws-cheat-sheets/

Make sure you open AWS account perform all possible labs in your account. DONT FORGET TO DELETE THE RESOURCES AFTER USER OR YOU WILL END UP WITH BIG INVOICE FROM AWS. USE FEATURE CALLED AWS Budget to make sure you are using limited resources.

You can use practice questions and answers to be aware about questions types or test your skills. You will not find single question from dumps in real exam.

Say BIG NO to dumps. AWS exam is something which you can not pass with dumps so please dont believe on anyone who says that just use brain dumps and pass the exam. Its simply not possible.

I will try to create some videos on this if time permits.

Finally reach out to me if you have any questions.

Disaster Recovery Video Series

2019-02-22T06:27:00.002-08:00

Hi Guys,

Welcome to my blog and this is the first video of disaster recovery series.

Introduction to disaster recovery video series.

Network ports for Site Recovery Manager 6.1

2018-07-31T09:18:00.000-07:00

Hi All,

Toady I found good KB article about SRM ports which are required for successful implementation and site pairing.

Site Recovery Manager can experience problems if the required network ports are not open.

In a Site Recovery Manager deployment, both the protected site and the recovery site must be able to resolve the vCenter Server instance by name. The correct ports must be open on both sites for uninterrupted communication.

vCenter Server and ESXi Server network port requirements for Site Recovery Manager 6.1

Site Recovery Manager requires certain ports to be open on vCenter Server, Platform Services Controller, and on ESXi Server:

Default Port	Protocol or Description	Source	Target	Description
443	HTTPS	Site Recovery Manager	vCenter Server	Default SSL Web port
443	HTTPS	Site Recovery Manager	Platform Services Controller	Traffic from Site Recovery Manager Server to local and remote Platform Services Controller.
902	TCP and UDP	Site Recovery Manager Server on the recovery site	Recovery site ESXi host	Traffic from the Site Recovery Manager Server on the recovery site to ESXi hosts when recovering or testing virtual machines with IP customization, with configured callout commands on recovered virtual machines, or that use raw disk mapping (RDM). All NFC traffic for updating or patching the VMX files of virtual machines that are replicated using vSphere Replication use this port.

Site Recovery Manager Server 6.1 network ports

The Site Recovery Manager Server instances on the protected and recovery sites require certain ports to be open.

Note: Site Recovery Manager Server at the recovery site must have NFC traffic access to the target ESXi servers.

Default Port	Protocol or Description	Source	Target	Endpoints or Consumers
443	HTTPS	Site Recovery Manager	vCenter Server	Default SSL Web Port for incoming TCP traffic
443	HTTPS	Site Recovery Manager	Platform Services Controller	Traffic from Site Recovery Manager Server to local and remote Platform Services Controller.
902	TCP and UDP	Site Recovery Manager Server on the recovery site	Recovery site ESXi host	Traffic from the Site Recovery Manager Server on the recovery site to ESXi hosts when recovering or testing virtual machines with IP customization, with configured callout commands on recovered virtual machines, or that use raw disk mapping (RDM). All NFC traffic for updating or patching the VMX files of virtual machines that are replicated using vSphere Replication use this port.
1433	TCP	Site Recovery Manager	Microsoft SQL Server	Site Recovery Manager connectivity to Microsoft SQL Server (for Site Recovery Manager database)
1521	TCP	Site Recovery Manager	Oracle Database Server	Site Recovery Manager database connectivity to Oracle
1526	TCP	Site Recovery Manager	Oracle Database Server	Site Recovery Manager database connectivity to Oracle
9086	HTTPS	vSphere Web Client	Site Recovery Manager	All management traffic to Site Recovery Manager Server goes to this port. This includes traffic by external API clients for task automation and HTTPS interface for downloading the UI plug-in and icons. This port must be accessible from the vCenter Server proxy system. Used by vSphere Web Client to download the Site Recovery Manager client plug-in.

Network ports that must be open on Site Recovery Manager and vSphere Replication Protected and Recovery sites

Site Recovery Manager and vSphere Replication require that the protected and recovery sites can communicate.

Port	Protocol or Description	Source	Target	Endpoints or Consumers
31031	Initial replication traffic	ESXi host	vSphere Replication appliance on the recovery site	From the ESXi host at the protected site to the vSphere Replication appliance at the recovery site.
44046	Ongoing replication traffic	ESXi host	vSphere Replication appliance on the recovery site	From the ESXi host at the protected site to the vSphere Replication appliance at the recovery site.
8043	HTTPS	Site Recovery Manager	vSphere Replication appliance on the recovery and protected sites	Management traffic between Site Recovery Management instances and vSphere Replication appliances.

Note: Newly configured replication will use only 31031, existing replications will continue to use 44046 until reconfigured.

Site pairing port requirements

Port	Source	Target	Description
9086	vCenter Server	SRM server target site	vCenter and target SRM communication
9086	SRM server	SRM server on target site	SRM to SRM communication
443	SRM	PSC and vCenter	SRM to vCenter communication – local and remote

Quran On youtube

2018-07-06T10:00:00.003-07:00

Please listen Quran and share with everyone and help me spreading the word of God with everyone. May Allah bless you..

001 Al-Fatiha -Mishari ibn Rashid al-`Afasy

002 Al Baqarah by Mishari ibn Rashid al `Afasy

003 Al-E-Imran - Mishari ibn Rashid al-`Afasy

004 An-Nisa' by Mishari ibn Rashid al-`Afasy

005 Al-Ma'idah by Mishari ibn Rashid al-`Afasy

006 Al-An'am by Mishari ibn Rashid al-`Afasy

007 Al-Araf by Mishari ibn Rashid al-`Afasy

008 Al-Anfal by Mishari ibn Rashid al-`Afasy

009 At-Tawbah by Mishari ibn Rashid al-`Afasy

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0114 Al-Nas by Mishari ibn Rashid al-`Afasy

How to upgrade ESXi 4.x,5,x and 6.x from Update Manager.

2018-01-08T06:47:00.001-08:00

Today I am going to explain you have to upgrade ESXi with the help of vCenter update manger.

Login to vCenter with required access
Click Home.
Click the Update Manager icon.
Under the Configuration tab, click Patch Download Schedule.
To view the Patch Download scheduled task:
Click Home.
Click Scheduled Tasks.
Click VMware vCenter Update Manager Update Download.
Click Home > Hosts and Clusters.
Highlight the ESX host you want to update and click the Update Manager tab.
Click Attach. Select Critical Host Patches and Non-Critical Host Patches baselines and click Attach.
Note: To create custom baselines click Home > Update Manager > Baselines and Groups > Create.
To scan the ESX host for missing patches against the repository, right-click on the ESX host and click Scan for Updates > Patches and Extensions > Scan.
Scan progress is shown by the Scan Entity task in the Recent Tasks.
The host scan does not affect running virtual machines.
If the scan fails, ensure that the ports between Update Manager and the ESX host are open.
When the scan is complete you see the number of patches missing on the ESX host. If no patches are missing, you see Compliant.
To remediate the missing patches to the ESX host:
Power off all virtual machines or vMotion them to a different ESX host.
Place the ESX host into maintenance mode. Right-click on the ESX host, select Enter Maintenance Mode, and click Yes.
Right-click on the ESX host and select Remediate > Critical Host Patches and Non-Critical Host Patches baselines and click Next.
Select which updates or patches to install, click Next >Next > Finish.
Notes:
Remediate progress is shown by the Remediate Entity task in the Recent Tasks.
This task might take some time as Update Manager starts downloading patches from vmware.com.
If the remediation fails, ensure the ports between Upate Manager, the ESX host, and vmware.com are open.
The ESX host might reboot after remediation completes.

I am part of TOP 5 VMware Social Media Member

2018-01-08T04:03:00.000-08:00

Its been more than 6 months I am working with VMware social network and reading and shearing post on my social pages.

Today I checked my ranking and feeling amazed that I am part of TOP 5 members on points which I have collected form shearing posts on my SN sites.

Top Reasons to Use VMware Social Media Advocacy

Stay up-to-date with trending VMware & industry content
View a personalized feed based on categories you select
Leverage this rich content to build a social media brand
Submit your own content to the community for social amplification
Compete with peers & co-workers for top leaderboard spots

To know more about VMware Advocacy use below link and go thorough the details.

http://vmwebapp.com/advocacy/Advocacy-WhyUse.pdf

How to connect to ESXi 6.5 using the vSphere (HTML5 Web) Host Client 6.5?

2018-01-04T09:10:00.002-08:00

There will be no more Think Client vSphere Client in 6.5? then how to connect to ESXi directly?

I had the same question and found steps to connect.

After installation and IP configuration of ESXi host access the ESXi host IP address from web browser with HTTPS protocol.

For Example - HTTPS://192.168.1.10

This will prompt you for SSL cert

And after that you will see the page where you can login and perform operations

That's it...

How to access DCUI in SSH

2018-01-04T08:54:00.001-08:00

Hi Guys, its been long time I have not posted anything on my bog actually I was busy with my US trip.

Today I am going to wright about how to access DCUI from SSH, this is very basic stuff but very few people know about this and very few people use this.

There is very small kb artical available on VMware site. Resolution section has only 3 lins.
https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2039638

If you want to connect to DCUI from SSH, you just need to make sure that SSH is enabled on ESXi servers and you connect to ESXi from SSH via Putty or any SSH client.

Run command #dcui

and you are done.

vSphere Update Manager Network Connections & Port Test

2018-01-04T07:49:00.004-08:00

Toady I was troubleshooting connection issue between ESXi and Update Manager; I though that I will wright this post on required port numbers and connection details.

nformation for the required firewall ports that need to be opened can be obtained from the following VMware KB articles:

http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1004543
http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1012382

During troubleshooting, some information got me confused and as the saying goes, “a picture is worth a thousand words.”, I decided to craft a picture from all this information.

Below is table with port details.

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2017-08-14T06:26:00.001-07:00

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vCloud Air now acquired by OVH

2017-06-05T07:36:00.001-07:00

Juts got to know from VMware website that vCloud Air is acquired by OVH

If you want to know more you can go on link below.

http://ir.vmware.com/overview/press-releases/press-release-details/2017/OVH-Announces-Intent-to-Acquire-VMware-vCloud-Air-Business/default.aspx

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Rated 4.6/5 based on 12892 reviews

Getting VM's list which has snapshot

2017-05-26T08:46:00.002-07:00

Snapshot feature is awesome; it helped administrators and developed in many difficult situation.

For troubleshooting and doing testing many VMware administrators get requests for creating snapshots.

With above features it has many disadvantages and biggest one is described below.
As snapshot disks has no limitations they can grow up to entire datastore size. and if you dont have proper monitoring set it will take you ti the situation where VM's become unresponsive.

To get the list of VM's which has snapshots you just run below command on powercli and it will get you list of VM's which has snapshots created.

get-vm | get-snapshot | format-lis

I dont have any output screenshot to show you but I will get uploaded as soon as possible.

There are many switch we can use with above command to export output with multiple format.

Thanks for reading...

Rated 5/5 based on 89222 reviews

VMworld 2017 in Las Vegas

2017-05-24T13:12:00.000-07:00

Hi Guys.

Hope you are rocking!!!

VMworld 2017 in Las Vegas registration is open & I have just completed my registration process.

Yes, Inshaallah I am going to Las Vegas for VMworld 2017. Thanks to VMware for providing me this opportunity as blogger.

I will be sharing all details with my blogs and youtube channel.

Below is link which you can use to register for VMworld 2017.

https://reg.rainfocus.com/flow/vmware/vmworldus17/reg/account?src=so_590b899c53598&cid=70134000001K6I4.

If you want to convenes your organization for VMworld conference use letter provide by VMware and update your project details and send email.

Keep visiting to my blog for latest update on VMworld 2017.

Rated 5/5 based on 2875 reviews

VMUG Virtual User Conference 2017

2017-05-24T07:54:00.002-07:00

Hello Friends,

One of my friend (Dipesh Rajpal) told me about "VMUG Virtual User Conference 2017" registration is open.

Below is link to register for VMUG.
Register

Date:

Thursday, June 8, 2017

Time:

9 AM – 5 PM Central Standard Time

With easy admission from your desk or home office, VMUG Virtual Event 6.0 will provide you with keynote and breakout sessions, a virtual trade show floor, and opportunities to engage with other attendees at the click of a button. Not to mention access to webcasts, white papers, and case studies available for download. For more information and event details please visit:

https://www.vmug.com/Attend/VMUG-UserCon/VirtualEvent

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This is All-Day event with agenda listed below

10:00 AM - 10:45 AM

Morning Keynote: VMware R&D: What’s on the Horizon? - VMware

Chris Wolf, VP and Chief Technology Officer, Global Field & Industry

10:45 AM - 10:55 AM

Break

10:55 AM - 11:40 AM

Upgrading to vSphere 6.5 - VMware

Emad Younis, Senior Technical Marketing Engineer

VMware Cloud on AWS – Technical Overview - VMware

Frank Denneman, Senior Staff Architect

11:40 AM - 11:50 AM

Break

11:50 AM - 12:35 PM

The Impact of Hyper-converged Infrastructure on the IT Landscape - Dell EMC

William Leslie, Technical Marketing Manager, Jason Maques, Technical Marketing Consultant

The Modern DataPlatform for vSphere Hybrid Cloud Infrastructures - Cohesity

Rawlinson Rivera, Chief Technology Officer, Global Field

The Evolving Data Center and the Cost of Flexibility - Trend Micro

Keith Tarantino, Principle Engineer

12:35 PM - 12:45 PM

Break

12:45 PM - 1:30 PM

Cloud-Native, Containers, Docker, Microservices, DevOps, Squirrel! - VMware

Steve Tegeler, Director, Technical Product Management and Systems Engineering, Cloud Native Apps

Operationalizing VMware NSX - VMware

Chris McCain, Director, Technical Certification

1:30 PM - 1:40 PM

Break

1:40 PM - 2:25 PM

Addressing Virtual Infrastructure Complexity with the Nimble Solution for VMware vSphere - Nimble Storage

Michael Harding, Senior Solutions Marketing Manager

How to Back Up and Restore VMware vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA) and Platform Controllers Properly - Veeam

Michael White, Technical Evangelist

Lightning-Fast Virtual Machine Recovery - Arcserve

Stacey Budd, Principal Pre-Sales Consultant

2:25 PM - 2:35 PM

Break

2:35 PM - 3:20 PM

4 Steps to Deliver Enterprise Cloud Right - Tintri

Chuck Dubuque, VP, Products and Solutions

Enhance VMware Data Protection with Cloud - Druva

Jesse Kachapis, Sr. Technical Architect,

Bill Kleyman, Expert Contributor Data Center Knowledge

Looking Across the Silos to Add Business Value: Unleashing the Power of Machine Learning Analytics - SIOS Technology

Jim Shocrylas, Director of Product Management

3:20 PM - 3:30 PM

Break

3:30 PM - 4:15 PM

Community Presentations - VMUG

VMUG Community Presenters

VVOLs 2.0 to the rescue! Unlock the power of array native snapshots and replication - Pure Storage

Cody Hosterman, Technical Director

Ransomware Jail, Is There Any Way Out? (Asking for a friend.) - Rubrik

Andrew Miller, Technical Marketing Director

4:15 PM - 4:25 PM

Break

4:25 PM - 5:00 PM

What’s New - PowerCLI 6.5.1 - VMware

Kyle Ruddy, Senior Technical Marketing Engineer

vRealize Automation and NSX - VMware

Jad El-Zein, Principal Architect

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2017-04-05T09:45:00.000-07:00

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I am now "Rahim Shaikh" The VMware vExpert 2017

2017-02-10T13:59:00.000-08:00

Hello Guys, Its been long time & I was super busy with my office work.

I have a good news for everyone, I got VMware vExpert batch for 2017; few months back I had written blog post on vExpert application as well and today I got email from VMware that they have granted me VMware vExpert Award 2017.

I also confirmed on VMware site & my name is there listed as "Rahim Shaikh" with my twitter id 'rahimras' https://twitter.com/RahimRas.

https://blogs.vmware.com/vmtn/2017/02/vexpert-2017-award-announcement.html

I feel good now & finally my efforts are getting visible to VMware.

Thanks for Reading.

Rahim Shaikh

VCAP, vExpert 2017.

Rated 4.7/5 based on 3232 reviews

AD DC disaster recovery planning

2016-10-29T12:38:00.000-07:00

Please check my recent video on ADDC recovery planing for disaster recovery.

Please find youtube video link below; please like and share my channel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcTdtzSO9hs

Rated 4.2/5 based on 1292 reviews

VMware vSphere 6.5 - Whats New, Documents & VCP

2016-10-27T07:19:00.000-07:00

Its been long time, I have not shared any post recently, I was very busy with some personal stuff....

Recently VMware released v Sphere 6.5 and I want to discuss whats new in vSphere 6.5 and also I would like to share some docs published by VMware which could help you to work for your VCP examinations.

Whats New in vSphere6.5:
There are many new addition and extra

Scale Enhancements – New configuration maximums to support even the largest app environments

VMware vCenter Server® Appliance – The single control center and core building block for vSphere

vCenter Server® High Availability – Native vCenter Server high availability solution

vCenter Server Backup and Restore – Native vCenter Server Backup and Restore

vCenter Server Appliance Tool – Single step migration and upgrade of existing vCenter Server to vCenter Server Appliance

REST APIs – Simple, modern developer-friendly APIs vSphere Client – HTML5-based GUI that ensures fast performance and cross-platform compatibility

Security-at-Scale – Policy-driven security that makes securing infrastructure operationally simple

Encryption – VM-level encryption protects unauthorized data access both at-rest and in-motion

Audit-quality logging – Enhanced logging that provides forensic information about user actions

Secure Boot – Protection for both the hypervisor and guest operating system by ensuring images have not been tampered with and preventing loading of unauthorized components

vSphere Integrated Containers™ – Virtual infrastructure platform for containers

Proactive HA – High availability capability that utilizes server health information and migrates VMs from degraded hosts before problem occurs

Cross-Cloud vMotion® – Live migrate workloads between VMware based clouds

Virtual Volumes™ Replication – Native array virtual volumes replication

Licence Edition - (Image from whats new doc)

Documents for your study and certification

Thanks to VMware.com for making it available for free....

https://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere6/r60/vsphere-60-configuration-maximums.pdf

vSphere Installation and Setup Guide	html	pdf	epub	mobi
vSphere Upgrade Guide	html	pdf	epub	mobi
vSphere Migration Guide	html	pdf	epub	mobi
vCenter Server and Host Management Guide	html	pdf	epub	mobi
vCenter Server Appliance Configuration Guide	html	pdf	epub	mobi
vSphere Virtual Machine Administration Guide	html	pdf	epub	mobi
vSphere Host Profiles Guide	html	pdf	epub	mobi
vSphere Networking Guide	html	pdf	epub	mobi
vSphere Storage Guide	html	pdf	epub	mobi
vSphere Security Guide	html	pdf	epub	mobi
vSphere Resource Management Guide	html	pdf	epub	mobi
vSphere Availability Guide	html	pdf	epub	mobi
vSphere Monitoring and Performance Guide	html	pdf	epub	mobi
vSphere Single Host Management – VMware Host Client	html	pdf	epub	mobi
vSphere Administration with the vSphere Client Guide	html	pdf	epub	mobi
vSphere Troubleshooting	html	pdf	epub	mobi

Thanks for reading,

Rated 4.7/5 based on 3232 reviews

Windows 2008 R2, 2012 & 2016 force boot in Safe mode, DSRM and safe mode with networking

2016-09-07T06:05:00.004-07:00

Last week a operations engineer were struggling for booting a windows 2008r2 VM in safe mode. I though of writing blog post for steps booting any Windows in safe mode.

With any windows VM pressing F8 option is very painful task as VM will enter into booting process as soon as you start the VM.

Till physical windows box F8 is very common option to select the boot mode. but if you want to boot windows box forcefuly in SAFE MODE you can use easy option called MSCONFIG.

1) login to system with admin credentials

2) Open RUN and type command 'MSCONFIG' (without quotes)

3) Hit enter

4) in MSconfig window click on Boot menu tab.

5) Check the option Safe Boot and click on OK button

6) Reboot the system, and it will boot in safe mode automatically.

Note: also revert the change back to normal mode by removing checkbox for safe mode

You can still use F8 option to use multiple boot option as well.

Thanks for reading.

Rated 4.6/5 based on 6799 reviews

Rahim Abdul Shaikh

NSX Controller Disk Check

Fix vRealize log insight admin password reset

2021 Flash End of Life & End of Support - vSphare Client Workaround

List of All vCenter Services and their functions

vCenter root password expired

Newly Cloned VM Getting Disconected From Network

AWS Certified Solution Architect - Passed!!!

Disaster Recovery Video Series

Introduction to disaster recovery video series.

Network ports for Site Recovery Manager 6.1

vCenter Server and ESXi Server network port requirements for Site Recovery Manager 6.1

Site Recovery Manager Server 6.1 network ports

Network ports that must be open on Site Recovery Manager and vSphere Replication Protected and Recovery sites

Site pairing port requirements

Quran On youtube

How to upgrade ESXi 4.x,5,x and 6.x from Update Manager.

I am part of TOP 5 VMware Social Media Member

How to connect to ESXi 6.5 using the vSphere (HTML5 Web) Host Client 6.5?

How to access DCUI in SSH

vSphere Update Manager Network Connections & Port Test

My Android APP is Live - Rahim Shaikh

vCloud Air now acquired by OVH

Getting VM's list which has snapshot

VMworld 2017 in Las Vegas

VMUG Virtual User Conference 2017

Below is link to register for VMUG.Register

This is All-Day event with agenda listed below

Save 15% on VMware Education

I am now "Rahim Shaikh" The VMware vExpert 2017

AD DC disaster recovery planning

VMware vSphere 6.5 - Whats New, Documents & VCP

Whats New in vSphere6.5: There are many new addition and extra

Documents for your study and certification

Windows 2008 R2, 2012 & 2016 force boot in Safe mode, DSRM and safe mode with networking

Below is link to register for VMUG.
Register

Whats New in vSphere6.5:
There are many new addition and extra