To create a VM from a XML file , first we have to create a xml file with the settings for the VM. I created a very basic on that only specifies the name and size of the vDisk. <CreateVM> <VM> <Name>MyVM1</Name> <HDDCapacity>1</HDDCapacity> </VM> <VM> <Name>MyVM2</Name> <HDDCapacity>1</HDDCapacity> </VM> </CreateVM> Lets first read the Content of… Continue reading

vSphere at 5.1 and earlier, there was a single TCP/IP stack which was being used by all the different types of network traffics. This meant that management, virtual machine (VM) traffic, vMotion, NFC etc.. were all fixed to use the same stack. and because of the shared stack, all VMkernel interfaces had some things in… Continue reading

I was going through the release notes of vSphere Replication 6.5 and really surprised to see the RPO of this new release…and thought of worth sharing: VMware vSphere Replication 6.5 provides the following new features: 5-minute Recovery Point Objective (RPO) support for additional data store types – This version of vSphere Replication extends support for… Continue reading

vSphere 6.0 has a powerful  feature as a part of vSphere HA called VM Component Protection (VMCP). VMCP protects virtual machines from storage related events, specifically Permanent Device Loss (PDL) and All Paths Down (APD) incidents. Permanent Device Loss (PDL) A PDL event occurs when the storage array issues a SCSI sense code indicating that the… Continue reading

Many of my friends was looking for something easy to understand Storage  Protocol Comparison , here is what i had created some time back for my reference:   iSCSI NFS FIBRE CHANNEL FCOE Description iSCSI presents block devices to a VMware® ESXi™ host. Rather than accessing blocks from a local disk, I/O operations are carried… Continue reading