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Integrate VMware log insight with vCenter
Login to log insight page
Click on Administration
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How to increase disk space of vCenter appliance
vCenter appliance is a vm and most of the time we are running it on the same ESXi cluster.
In some cases we may need to increase the disk capacity of some partition(most of the time its log file path).If our vCenter is running out of disk space, vCenter related services may not tart as expected. To resolve this issue we need to increase the free space capacity of the vCenter appliance.
How to do this
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how to use telnet command in vCenter appliance putty session
Telnet is the command which we can easily use to check the service status of the remote system.
Ex if we can telnet to vCenter server from our desktop using port 443, we can say that web services of the vCenter is up
But when we use vCenter shell or ESXi shell, we cannot use telnet command.
As an alternative option, we can use curl command. Please refer the below screen capture
curl -v telent://vcsa-01a:443
vSphere 6.7 Quick boot
vSphere 6.7 quick boot is new feature which is integrated with update manager. When we performing patching activities with earlier versions of vSphere most of the time we need to reboot the ESX hosts. This is very painful because normayy it will take more than 5 minutes to reboot hardware server. Also sometimes we may need to login using ILO\BMC\IDRAC and check the boot status.
With the version 6.7 we can configure quick boot of ESX hosts.This feature will allow us to reboot only the hypervisor without rebooting ESX’s hardware.
Requirements of this feature-
This feature will not work with all the hardware servers.we can follow below link to get the compatible hardware models.
How to check the compatibility of your server-
We can run
/usr/lib/vmware/loadesx/bin/loadESXCheckCompat.py
And check the compatibility of our server with quick boot.
How to configure this feature
1.login to your vCenter web client
Go to the update manager
Select Manage
Select Settings
Click on Edit
Enable quick boot
Now we are going to remediate one of my esx host.
From the target host we can see qucik boot is enable on this
I used VMware hol HOL-1904-01-SDC-HOL to test this feature
Reference links
Reclaim disk space on VMware thin disk
- Use third party tool(if it’s a Windows we can use sdelete) to zero-out the disk blocks and using vmkfstools we can shrink the disk
- Storage vMotion the virtual machine or VMDK to a datastore formatted with a different block size
- From the datastore we can see 80.47 GB free space
In a vSphere based virtualization environment we can mainly use two disk types(Thick & Thin).I hope you all know the difference between these two.
To optimize our shared/Direct attached storage we can use thin disk. But the problem is even we delete the data from os level . It will not reclaim automatically from the storage.
To overcome this issue we have two options.
In this article we are going to showcase how to use sdelete & vmkfstools to this operation
1.This vm we have two thin disks. We will use second disk for the our test case. Capacity of the disk is 3GB