Category: Virtualization

HA stands for one of the critical enterprise cluster feature of VMware called “High Availability”. It can be configured on a VMware cluster to auto recover VM’s from a ESX host failure. When you configure HA via vCenter Server on VMware cluster, it installs Automated Availability Manager (AAM)  (VMware HA agent) on individual ESX host The HA agent (AAM) runs a heartbeat mechanism on each host in a cluster to signal that the host is running and is a part of the cluster. g gf

Extract the ESX media from the bootable ISO/DVD received from VMware Copy them to a network location and make them accessible Create the ks.cfg (kickstart configuration file) answer file with custom values to installation options. The main sections of the ks.cfg file are as below accepteula or vmaccepteula (required) autopart (required) clearpart (optional) dryrun (optional) install (required) keyboard (optional) serialnum or vmserialnum (optional) network (optional) paranoid (optional) part or partition (optional) rootpw (required) %include or include %pre (optional) %post (optional) %firstboot The previous version to 4.0 of ESX server used to support incomplete ks.cfg file by which it uses the […]

ESX server Administering ESX 4 f ESXi server Virtual Center (vCenter) server (is the centralized management server for complete infrastructure) Installed on a Windows server that is part of AD domain vSphere client (VMware-viclient.exe) Download from any of ESX server URL, vCenter server or ISO from VMware Install on vCenter server or any workstation Choose to install “Host Update Utility 4.0” This tool allows you to upgrade ESX 3.x to ESX 4.0 and ESXi 3.5 to ESXi 4.0. The utility also allows you to patch and update ESXi hosts. g g Using Software vSphere Client is a single GUI application […]