vcenter – Page 2 – vHersey – VCDX Two to the Seventh Power (#128)

Had a couple of issues in the labs for class last night. Unfortunate since these are assessment labs and the students get frustrated when there are issues. A couple of KBs which came in handy that I am going to leave right here for future reference.

vHersey VMware

July 1, 2015 Hersey

vCenter 5.5 Tasks to Excel

I had an inquiry about ways to get information about vCenter tasks other than just through the vSphere Client. Specifically to make it easier to filter through the tasks to determine who did what, or even how many times a specific task (such as cloning a VM) was done.

PowerCLI SimpliVity VMware

June 17, 2015 Hersey

PowerCLI: Create vCenter Role and Assign User Permissions

With out going too deep, part of a SimpliVity deployment is preparing the VMware environment. Preparing the VMware environment includes creating a Role including the necessary Privileges and setting up the required permissions in vCenter for a SimpliVity user. This is easy enough, but I created a PowerCLI script which creates a Role, applies the required Privileges to the Role, and applies the Role to a user as a permission in vCenter.

PowerCLI vHersey VMware

June 3, 2015 Hersey

vCenter Settings and Alarm Configurations with PowerCLI

A quick PowerCLI script I put together to set a few of the General vCenter Configuration Settings such as the SMTP Server and port, the from email for messages generated by vCenter alarms, and setting the database retention policies for tasks and events. The script also configures the email actions on a set of pre-defined alarms.

VCP6 VITA VMware

May 21, 2015 Hersey

VCP6-DCV Delta Study – Section 4 – Objective 4.2

This post covers Section 4, Upgrade a vSphere Deployment, Objective 4.2, Perform vCenter Server Upgrades of the VCP6 Delta Beta Exam.

VCP6 vHersey VITA VMware

April 4, 2015 Hersey

VCP6-DCV Delta Study – Section 1 – Objective 1.3

This post covers Section 1, Configure and Administer vSphere Security, Objective 1.3, Enable SSO and Active Directory Integration, of the VCP6-DCV Delta beta exam.

VCP6 vHersey VITA VMware

April 4, 2015 Hersey

VCP6-DCV Delta Study – Section 1 – Objective 1.2

This post covers Section 1, Configure and Administer vSphere Security, Objective 1.2, Secure ESXi, vCenter Server, and vSphere Virtual Machines of the VCP6-DCV Delta beta exam.

VCP6 vHersey VITA VMware

April 3, 2015 Hersey

VCP6-DV Delta Study – Section 1 – Objective 1.1

This post covers Section 1, Configure and Administer vSphere Security, Objective 1.1, Configure and Administer Role-based Access Control of the VCP6-DV Delta beta exam.

vHersey VMware

March 24, 2015 Hersey

Access vCenter Service Health in vSphere 6

This posts walks through adding permissions to allow a vSphere Administrator to access the System Configuration UI to view Service Health.

VMware

December 10, 2014 Hersey

Automating with vRealize Orchestrator

I was recently convinced by Hersey to present at our Hampton Roads VMUG on automation and orchestration. As this is

DCA vHersey VITA VMware

May 19, 2014 Hersey

AutoLab Video Series Part 4 – vCenter Build

In this video the vCenter Server AutoLab VM is built using the AutoLab automation and the ESXi hosts are added to vCenter inventory. Networking and storage is also configured on the ESXi hosts using AutoLab automation.