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How to Create IP pools in NSX-T 3.1

NSX-T Manager Deployment

NSX T Manager Configuration

Start Stop SSH for esxi hosts through power cli.

VMware vSAN file services

ISCSI target service in vSAN

Creating Shared VMDK for WSFC in VSAN 7.0.2

Migrating RDM to VSAN offline (Part 3)

Migrating RDMs to VSAN (Part 2)

Migrating RDMs to VSAN (Part 1)

VM migration between 2 vcenter with different domain.

Matching windows disk drive with VMware vm's disk.

UPGRADE ESXI HOST 6.7 to 7.0U2 (Part 2)

UPGRADE ESXI HOST 6.7 to 7.0U2 (Part 1)

Installing powerCLI (VMware)

Preparing vsan cluster step by step (Part 2)

Preparing vsan cluster step by step (Part 1)

Upgrading vCenter Server 7 U2 from 6.5u3n Step by Step

Installing vCenter Server 7 U2 Step by Step

khushnood khan

Jul 30, 2021

Migrating RDM to VSAN offline (Part 3)

This migration is an offline operation . Below are the setup. Setup details vms vm1: mscluster-n1 vm2: mscluster-n2 We have the vm running on san pRDM and the next is tomigrate it to vsan datastore. 1) Stop the Role in the WSFC. 2) Shutdown the vms participating in the windows cluster. 3) Migrate the firstnode of the cluster to vSAN. 4) Choose change storage only option. 5)select the vSAN storage. we can see the migration started. 6) Power on node which got migrated. 7) We c

khushnood khan

Jul 24, 2021

Migrating RDMs to VSAN (Part 2)

2)Migrating quorum Disk to File Share Witness Quorum disk is the Shared disk for failover cluster. Sharing can be either virtual or physical.With windows 2008 the need for quorum disk is not a mandatary. Insted we can use FSW (file share witness ).The FSW can be a standard Windows server on a vSAN datastore. We have 2 vms participating in failover clustering. We can see the clustered disk which is participating in quorum disk. (cluster disk 3) Now the cluster Quorum disk wil

khushnood khan

Jul 24, 2021

Migrating RDMs to VSAN (Part 1)

In This Post we will discuss how to migrate your RDMs to VSAN. There are 3 Scenario here 1) Migrating an unshared RDM to vsan. 2) Migrating a Shared RDM which is a quorum disk for MS cluster. 3)Migrating a Shared RDM data disk. We will cover all the scenario one by one. Migrating an unshared RDM to vsan. In this scenario we have one vm with an unshared RDM as shown below. VM name: MScluster-nclone Hard disk2 is the RDM non shared disk here. The disk is running on Physical com

khushnood khan

Jul 11, 2021

VM migration between 2 vcenter with different domain.

One of the most challenging thing in industry is the migration of vms from an old environment to a newer one or we can say from one vcenter to another with different domains. This challenge was achieved by vmware fling for 6.X migration which made migration between 2 different domain vcenters easy. This Fling has been productized and is now part of the vSphere 7.0 Update 1c release. For vSphere 6.x-to-6.x Migration, this Fling can still be used but for newer migrations, it is

khushnood khan

Jul 10, 2021

Matching windows disk drive with VMware vm's disk.

This is a very common issue in which IT admins struggle in finding the related disk from VMware vm to that of windows vm. In this post I will go through the concept of finding the disk with PowerShell command. I have created a vm and it is having 8 disks. vm name : testvm1 Hard disks: We can see the hard disk are on 2 different controllers and the buss sequence is different for the hard disks. From within the windows vm we can see the below hard disks. The disk no in windows

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