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Installing VMware.Powercli latest version and Error Invalid server certificate Set-PowerCLIConfiguration

Way long back, After writing my my article VMWARE VSPHERE POWERCLI INSTALLATION AND CONFIGURATION STEP BY STEP, I decided today to upgrade my vSphere PowerCLI to newer version 10 in the office, I am choosing little bit different installation method instead of using exe installer, PowerCLI can be do…

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Powercli GUI: Determine the EVC Mode that vmware cluster should be configured

vmware vsphere esxi cluster, enhanced vmotion mode evc, cpu manufacturer, cpu generations, failover, drs, ha, vmware high availibility, distributed resource scheduler

I was evaluating one of the old project hosted on VMware in my office for a client, After ruff capacity calculation I found scarce of compute and memory resources in the VMware clusters. Few meetings and decisions, and sharing complete excel data and capacity planning for upcoming VMs, we decide…

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Part 4: Remove ESXi Host from Distributed switch and migrate to virtual switch completely

This is last and final part of this article series from migrating distributed switch to standard switch. In this series I have already created and copied existing dvswitch and its portgroup to new standard switch, then migrated Management network and vMotion VMkernel virtual network adapter to stand…

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Migrating move back from Distributed virtual switch to Standard virtual switch - VMKernal Adapter - Part 2

In this article I will be migrating VMKernel virtual adpaters from distributed virtual switches to standard virtual switch, in earlier article I addressed Copy or clone distributed virtual switch portgroups to standard switch portgroups - Powercli, this helps automating, creating Portgroup. Here I…

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Deploy install VCSA (vCenter server appliance 6.5) on VMWare Workstation

VMware plans to deprecate vCenter Server for Windows with the next numbered release (not update release) of vSphere.  The next version of vSphere will be the terminal release for which vCenter Server for Windows will be available. For more info check on Farewell, vCenter Server for Windows. I had…

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VMWARE SECURITY BEST PRACTICES: POWERCLI ENABLE OR DISABLE ESXI SSH

Logging into SSH required in some of the common troubleshooting scenario or fetching information: ie  checking logs, telnet, ping, esxtop etc, Although subject title of this blog is mentioned Powercli, but I am showing all ways to enable SSH service on esxi including GUI as well, By default SSH serv…

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