I was testing new VMware vCenter server 7 Lifecycle manager feature setting up Image, vSphere Lifecycle Manager presents a new technique of maintaining all ESXi hosts in a cluster by defining an image for the cluster. Images characterize the desired state requirement that comprises software, drivers…
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PowerCLI one-liner Reporting, Assigning, Changing and Removing licenses on ESXi
I was looking for instant one-liner PowerCLI script to get licensing report of ESXi servers and also wanted one-liner commands to assign / remove licenses on ESXi servers, Below scripts help to do the tasks.
#Connect ESXi Server
$vmHost = Get-VMHost -Name ironman.vcloud-lab.com
#Assign / …
Install and Configure VMware UMDS on Linux
VMWare UMDS (VMware Update Manager Download Services) is feature and extra add on software included in VCSA ISO file, It helps downloading update metadata, patches, security fixes and latest drivers binaries from online VMware/Vendor hostupdate Repositories. It helps in way to make your VMware Updat…
VMware UMDS curl_easy_perform() failed: cURL Error: SSL peer certificate or SSH remote key was not OK, SSL certificate problem: unable to get local issuer certificate
After configuring VMWware UMDS (VMware Update Manager download service) in my environment, which downloads patches/update from online VMware repositories, I tried downloading patches/updates.but I was receiving below errors for multiple urls. (There are default 4 online VMware repositories from wher…
Patching the vCenter Server Appliance VCSA
VMware regularly releases security patches/fixes for its products, here I am patching vCenter server appliance (vcsa portal). Upgrade patches are downloaded from url https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/patch#search (VMware Patch download center).
I have downloaded vCenter server patch ISO f…
Assign vSAN licenses in vSphere client
After writing Administrating licenses in vSphere client I missed to mention another way to assign licences to vSAN cluster. Whenever you build you a new cluster and if don't enable vSAN services, that cluster generally is not listed under licenses Assets, Unless you enable vSAN service on cluster. (…
Powercli Get vCenter assigned licenses report
This is a second part of earlier written article Powercli Get vCenter licenses information, that script will help to collect all the added VMware licenses but doesn't show which system is utilizing the license. Here in this script it helps you to get report of assigned licences information. Using …
Administrating licenses in vSphere client
Recently I deployed VMware vSphere 7, and after logging to vSphere Client the first message was popped up on the top middle screen is There are expired or expiring licenses in your inventory. [MANAGE YOUR LICENSES]. As I had licenses to for testing I decided to assign the same to vCenter and ESXi se…
Install and Configure Active Directory Federation Service (ADFS)
In this article I will be configuring ADFS (Active Directory Federation Services). One of the requirement for ADFS configuration is requirement of PFX SSL certificate (It includes private key), To proceed I will create SSL certificate first. I have below few articles written earlier to understand CA…
Configuring Secure LDAPs on Domain Controller
After installing and configuring Certification Authority (CA) server, Next step is use it to generate SSL certificate for LDAPS configuration on Domain Controller.
The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is used to read from and write to Active Directory. By default, LDAP traffic is t…
Install and configure certificate authority (CA) on Microsoft Windows server with Group Policy
Recently VMWare has released a new feature vCenter identity federation to vSphere 7 version. I was testing that feature and it required CA signed certificates, so wanted to install and configure certificate authority (CA) server, for my lab as I didn't have it one in the lab, when installing and co…
VMware vcenter 7.0 A problem occurred during setup Services might not be working as expected 63%
As VMware vSphere 7 version is released recently, I thought of testing and have hands-on on the product, to get further on vCenter server 7.0, ISO file is downloaded from my.vmware.com. Here I am performing vCenter server deployment and installation steps on VMware workstation, OVA file is located u…
Ansible get information from esxi advanced settings nested dictionary with unique keynames
After my earlier post ansible create an array with set_fact, I wanted to grab some selected information from VMware ESXi Advanced setting. but the problem was when I use ansible module vmware_host_config_info, information generated here was in below json format. (Note: There are tons of advanced…
ansible create an array with set_fact
In one of my vSphere Ansible automation task, I was looking for to create a new array variable using set_fact. here I have achieved the same task using 2 different playbook with small way procedure. In the both methods on the vars I have defined infra variable where I have defined my VMware esxi s…
Ansible for VMwary Using vmware_vm_inventory dynamic inventory plugin
Since I started using Ansible for VMware management, Daily I am exploring new thing on vSphere Ansible, and stumbled upon interesting dynamic inventory plugin named vmware_vm_inventory from url https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/plugins/inventory/vmware_vm_inventory.html (for more about pa…
Using Ansible for Managing VMware vSphere Infrastructure
On this second part article of after How to install Ansible on Linux for vSphere configuration, I have written here 2 Ansible playbook files (play tasks created) to configure VMWare ESXi servers. Language for the ansible playbook files is YAML/YML format. When using Ansible to use on VMware vSph…
Managing ESXi SSL certificate properties from vCenter server
One of the way to manage esxi certificate properties is using vCenter server, This is good option where you don't have generate a certificate for every indivisual Esxi. You just need to configure valid SSL certificate once on the vCenter VMCA. Improving Esxi security by using vCenter server can ensu…
How to install Docker on Linux
Docker is a tool designed to make it easier to create, deploy, and run applications by using containers. Containers allow a developer to package up an application with all of the parts it needs, such as libraries and other dependencies, and ship it all out as one package. This is step by step guide …
Connect-VIServer Error: Invalid server certificate. Use Set-PowerCLIConfiguration
After installation of new version of VMware PowerCli module on one of my deployment at client infrastructure. I tried testing it by using cmdlet connect-viserver to vcenter, which was failing with below error. Reading error carefully on the screen, which was telling me, my vcenter’s SSL certificate…
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