In this video presentation which is part of the Hancock’s VMware Half Hour HOW TO Video Series I will show you HOW TO: Create, Configure and Deploy VMware vSphere vCenter Server 7.0 High Availability (VCHA).
VMware vCenter Server High Availability (HA) protects vCenter Server against host and hardware failures. The active-passive architecture of the solution can also help you reduce downtime significantly when you patch vCenter Server. It is included as a free function within vCenter Server, no additional licensing is required for the additional Passive and Witness nodes.
vCenter Server HA does require an isolated “cluster heartbeat network”, as demonstrated in this video
In this video presentation which is part of the Hancock’s VMware Half Hour HOW TO Video Series I will show you HOW TO: Create a new Distributed and VMKernel Portgroups on a VMware vSphere Distributed Switch for the vSphere Cluster for use with vCenter Server HA.
I created a video here, which shows you how to create a vDS for VMware vSphere.
In this video presentation which is part of the Hancock’s VMware Half Hour HOW TO Video Series I will show you HOW TO: Use the vCenter Server 7.0.3 vCenter Server Appliance Management Interface (VAMI) to backup the database and configuration of your vCenter Server.
It is important once you have created a vDS to ensure you keep regular backups, if the need arises you need to restore vCenter Server.
I created a video here, which shows you how to create a vDS for VMware vSphere.
In this video presentation which is part of the Hancock’s VMware Half Hour HOW TO Video Series I will show you HOW TO: Correctly configure physical uplinks for teaming and failover on a VMware vSphere Distributed Switch vDS.
I created a video here, which shows you how to create a vDS for VMware vSphere.
In this video presentation which is part of the Hancock’s VMware Half Hour HOW TO Video Series I will show you HOW TO: Export and Backup the VMware vSphere Distributed Switch (vDS) configuration of a VMware vSphere Distributed Switch (vDS).
It is important once you have created a vDS to ensure you keep regular backups, if the need arises you need to restore vCenter Server.
I created a video here, which shows you how to create a vDS for VMware vSphere.
I will show you HOW TO: Increase the capacity of an existing VMware vSphere vSAN datastore by adding new storage devices.
The storage devices we are using in this VMware vSphere vSAN datastore are Intel Optane devices.
If you are creating a design for VMware vSphere vSAN for a Production environment, please ensure you read the VMware Cloud Foundation Design Guide 01 JUN 2023 – this should be regarded as The Bible!
In this video presentation which is part of the Hancock’s VMware Half Hour HOW TO Video Series I will show you HOW TO: Create a VMware vSphere vSAN using Intel Optane NVMe storage devices.
The storage devices we are using in this video are the Intel® Optane™ SSD DC P4800X Series 375GB, 2.5in PCIe x4, 3D XPoint™, but this procedure can be use to add any compatible storage devices in ESXi to a vSAN datastore.
This video follows on from the follow video in this series
If you are creating a design for VMware vSphere vSAN for a Production environment, please ensure you read the VMware Cloud Foundation Design Guide 01 JUN 2023 – this should be regarded as The Bible!
In this video presentation which is part of the Hancock’s VMware Half Hour HOW TO Video Series I will show you HOW TO: Create a VMware vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS) for use with VMware vSphere vSAN for the VMware vSphere vSAN Cluster.
VMware vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS) provides a centralized interface from which you can configure, monitor and administer virtual machine access switching for the entire data center. The VDS provides:
Simplified virtual machine network configuration
Enhanced network monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities
Support for advanced VMware vSphere networking features
As my 10GBe switch in this VMware vSphere Lab has LACP functionality I have decided to demonstrate how we configure the vDS for a LACP LAG. Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) is one elements of an IEEE specification (802.3ad) that provides guidance on the practice of link aggregation for data connections, it’s used on trunks or port channels, to bond two ethernet ports together. It is only supported using a VMware vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS) , it is not supported on a VMware vSphere Standard Switch (VSS).
This video covers the following
Creation of the VMware vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS).
Creation of Portgroups with vLANs for Management, vMotion and vSAN.
Creation of the LACP LAG.
Adding vDS to hosts in the vSphere Cluster.
Migration of existing VMKernel portgroups from VSS to VDS.
Testing the VMware vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS).
If you are creating a design for VMware vSphere vSAN for a Production environment, please ensure you read the VMware Cloud Foundation Design Guide 01 JUN 2023 – this should be regarded as The Bible!
In this video presentation which is part of the Hancock’s VMware Half Hour HOW TO Video Series I will show you HOW TO: Remediate a vSphere Cluster VMware ESXi 7.0U3d to ESXi 7.0U3n including adding the DELL OEM Addon for ESXi 7.0.3 – A12 using VMware vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM) from a single image
This video took over 7 hours to record to Remediate the vSphere Cluster, don’t worry in post we were able to reduce to approximately 35 minutes, the reasons were issues which we discuss as we troubleshoot the cluster, as we remediate the cluster.
Issues encountered, which we discuss and remedy throughout the video
Failed to vMotion – caused by incorrect network speed.
Failed to vMotion – caused by different generation CPU.
Failed to remediate a host – caused by incompatible VIBs.
Failed to remediate a host – caused by unknown error.
Server failed to boot – caused by failing ECC memory modules.
In this video presentation which is part of the Hancock’s VMware Half Hour HOW TO Video Series I will show you how to change the LBA sector size of storage media to make it compatible with VMware vSphere Hypervisor ESXi 7.0 and ESXi 8.0.
Only an LBA sector size of 512 bytes is compatible with VMware vSphere Hypervisor ESXi 7.0 and ESXi 8.0.
In this video we use an Intel® Optane™ SSD DC P4800X Series 375GB, 2.5in PCIe x4, 3D XPoint™, but this procedure can be use to change the LBA format of any storage media, SSD, HDD, NVMe
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