I was desperate in learning ansible and thus tried to learn some concepts over the internet. When i learned ansible to configure linux hosts through SSH , i was bit demented in understanding. So i decided to learn them with the way i understand with the technology i already know. I chose VMware. The task… Continue reading Adding ESXi Host 7.0 to vSphere cluster using Ansible
Author: Balaji Saravanan
PowerCLI : Scripting the Workaround for OpenSLP vulnerability
With the recent vulnerability raised by VMware for vCenter and ESXi hosts , it is considered critical for the VMware environment. However, addressing such situation with short timeline is so difficult and huge manual effort is required. PowerCLI is powerful enough to handle such situations. This script below will be able to connect to the… Continue reading PowerCLI : Scripting the Workaround for OpenSLP vulnerability
Integrating VMware Skyline with NSX-V 6.3.4 reports “403 Forbidden error”
We were implementing VMware Skyline with our environment. One of the important steps is to connect VMware skyline with NSX -V We tried using active directory domain based service accounts by providing NSX administrator privileges and also vSphere.local accounts with NSX administrator and Auditor permissions and still didnt work. It ended up with below error… Continue reading Integrating VMware Skyline with NSX-V 6.3.4 reports “403 Forbidden error”
vROPS policies : The key to control known issues in your environment
vRops is one of the very useful FCAPS used in Telco NFV environment to monitor every individual metrics and handle them better. However, sometimes we know there are certain issues that cannot be solved until the next release and may be its under plan. In such times, continuous alerts from vROPS for the same known… Continue reading vROPS policies : The key to control known issues in your environment
SSL Certificate Replacement Procedure for VMware vRealize Operations manager
One of the most important product in monitoring vSphere environment is the VMware vRealize operations manager. I had to recently replace SSL custom certificates and gathered the below procedure. Below is the setup , vROPS version 6.6 3 Nodes running with VIP in front end using Load balancer. Load balancer is configured in NSX-ESG appliance… Continue reading SSL Certificate Replacement Procedure for VMware vRealize Operations manager
Replacing SSL Certificates in VMware vRealize Network insight
With NFV in place , i had to manage our vRNI as part of NFV suite and replace its SSL certificates for integrity in environment. Prerequisites: Validate that there is a recent backup of vRNI virtual machines[Both proxy and platform VMs] are available in environment. Generate a list of fully qualified domain names and their… Continue reading Replacing SSL Certificates in VMware vRealize Network insight
Creating Certificate Signing requests Using XCA Portable Tool
Are you so allergic towards OpenSSL for generating CSRs ? Do you always prefer GUI over commandline and looking an alternate for CSR generation without OpenSSL? Then this blog post is absolutely for you ! XCA portable is a GUI based free tool used to generate Key pair and CSR for your SSL reaplcement activities… Continue reading Creating Certificate Signing requests Using XCA Portable Tool
Replacing SSL Certificates in VMware vRealize Log Insight with Integrated Load balancer
This blog narrates the steps of execution to replace SSL custom certificates of vRealize log insight application running with integrated load balancer.
PowerNSX Script to retrieve details of all NSX Edge interfaces
Working with Telco Cloud is bit challenging in terms of network and loads of NSX edges to be dealt with. One of the recent inventory work , involved in gathering interface details of all NSX Edges in my environment. We had almost 70+ NSX edges and several interfaces within them. I need to find out… Continue reading PowerNSX Script to retrieve details of all NSX Edge interfaces
Backing up DVswitches from multiple vCenters and uploading to Linux via PowerCLI using Putty SCP
While we have several vCenters and multiple DvSwitches in each vCenter in our environment, we decided to use PowerCLI to backup all our DVSwitches and store them somewhere safe to use when needed.
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