When deploying a virtual infrastructure it is very important to configure a time server. Lately, most VMware solutions depend on accurate time. For the labs that i deploy, i generally configure the time server on a windows machine(For e.g. AD Machine), and let all the ESXi hosts synchronize time with this windows machine. The windows machine will synchronize time from a internet time server, for e.g. pool.ntp.org(The esxi hosts will not have access to the internet)...
To check if the vShield endpoint driver is installed in Windows we can use the following command, sc query type= driver | find "vsepflt" To automate the above script across all Windows VMs in the vCenter Server Launch the PowerCLI shell and connect to the vCenter Server: Connect-VIServer [vcenter server ip\fqdn] Copy the below script to a text file and name the file with “.PS1” extension. For eg. “script....
HAProxy is an open source load balancer. More info here: http://www.haproxy.org. HAProxy can load balance HTTP/HTTPS and supports session persistence. The View Setup: Internal Network Subnet: 192.168.100.x External Network Subnet: 10.1.1.x Two connection servers with the below IP Addresses: Connection Server 1: 192.168.100.3 Connection Server 2: 192.168.100.4 Two Security Servers with the below IP Addresses: Security Server 1: 10.1.1.3 Security Server 2: 10.1.1.4 HAProxy Load Balancer server configuration: OS: Ubuntu Server 14....
There are three components to vCenter Converter - The Server, Agent and the Worker In order to enable verbose logging on each of the components, backup and edit the below files at: %programdata%\VMware\VMware vCenter Converter Standalone\ converter-agent.xml converter-server.xml converter-worker.xml In each file change the log level from “info” to “verbose” under the following element <log> ... <level>info</level> </log> Restart the converter services to apply the above changes.
In ESXi 5.x For hostd: Backup and edit the following file, /etc/vmware/hostd/config.xml and add the below text: <level id="nfcsvc"> <logName> Nfc </logName> <logLevel> trivia </logLevel> <prefix> true </prefix> </level> For vpxa: Backup and edit the following file, etc/vmware/vpxa/vpxa.cfg and add/replace the below text: <nfc> <loglevel>trivia</loglevel> </nfc>