Category: vSphere

NSX Automation Part 1 – Create Logical Switches from CSV

NSX is a great technology and automating it with the REST API allows us to quickly provision networking.  Here is a sample on how to create Logical Switches from a CSV file:   Contents of CSV file ndaher@ubuntu:~$ cat ls.csv name,description,tenantIdls-1,ls-1 desc,virtual wire tenantls-2,ls-2 desc,virtual wire tenantls-3,ls-3 desc,virtual wire tenantls-4,ls-4 desc,virtual wire tenantls-5,ls-5 desc,virtual wire …

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How to Get ESXi Capabilities

Here is a quick way to find out the capabilities of your ESXi server   https://myesxi.mydomain.com/mob/?moid=ha-host&doPath=capability

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vSphere Network Best Practices – EN-000913-01

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How to Access vCenter Remotely Using Putty

Here is a quick and easy way way to access your vCenter remotely using an ssh client like Putty.   Configure Home Network Open SSH on your router to a Linux or VM host and create Port Forwarding entry to forward SSH traffic to Linux or VM host       If using VM host …

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A Summary of What’s New in vSphere 5.5

Summary of new features and capabilities available in vSphere 5.5 Doubled Host-Level Configuration Maximums – vSphere 5.5 is capable of hosting any size workload; a fact that is punctuated by the doubling of several host-level configuration maximums.  The maximum number of logical CPUs has doubled from 160 to 320, the number of NUMA nodes doubled from …

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