This article's completely focus is on VMware PowerCLI command line to add or create new VMFS datastore, You can check Create a VMFS Datastore in the vSphere Client how The same task is performed using vSphere Client (HTML5). To start first Import Vmware.PowerCLI module on to PowerShell and log in t…
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Create a VMFS Datastore in the vSphere Client
This is a step by step procedure to create a new VMFS datastore on the ESXi server using vSphere Client, and same guide is applicable for both Local Disk as well as Shared remote storage. While using HTML5 based vSphere client you might find little difference creating a new Datastore. To start I hav…
How to convert RDM disk (Raw Device Mapping) to VMDK
In my previous article I shown Adding and sharing RDM disk to multiple VMs in VMware step by step, I received one related task to convert virtual machine RDM (Raw device mapping) hard disk to VMDK disk. Basically I require it to convert because, I was not going to use microsoft clustering anymore, a…
ESXi 6.5 upgrade bundle via command line: No Space Left On Device Error
I received few standalone ESXi 6.5 hosts for patching for branch office, I wanted to upgrade build number on server, As there was no option of VMWare update manager for standalone esxi. Here I upgraded them using offline bundle zip. These requires offline bundle zip to be be downloaded from url …
Upload files to vmware ESXi datastore: Different methods
Copying files to VMware Datastores is an easy task. Here in this article, I am showing 3 different methods to upload files to VMware datastores, You can use these methods to copy offline bundle zip, VIB, VMDK or ISO files. Ifyou are using VMWare vSphere web client to upload files to datastore, make …
Adding and sharing RDM disk to multiple VMs in VMware step by step
I had a requirement to configure Two node Microsoft failover clustering on VMware VMs in my office, The plan was to configure clustered file server. Virtual machines has to be separated from each other and should be located on different esxi servers, My first task was to provide my colleague wintel …
Create and configure VMWare vSphere VSAN cluster step by step
VMware vSAN is a Hyper-Converged storage (Software Defined Storage) solutions with a vSphere-native, high-performance architecture. With software defined storage, it has opened new opportunities to new skills. With vSAN we can use local disk and create highly available, scalable, high performance da…
Emulate HDD as SSD flash disk on Esxi and VMware workstation
I was required (emulated) virtual fake SSD in VMware workstation for few demos and testing purpose. I am already using SSD on my system, If vmdks are kept on the Solid state drives, VMs detects vmdk disks as SSD/Flash disk, but if you don't have SSD, it can be easily emulated with a trick configurat…
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Unmount NFS datastores from VMware ESXi and NFS is in use
Mounting NFS datastore on ESXi server is very easy, similar way you might need to remove/unmount NFS share from ESXi server for maintenance or migration purpose. To unmount it, open VMWare vSphere Web Client and select Storage tab, from the list select NFS datastore, right click on it and sele…
VMWare Web Client: Datastore browse files upload copy failed error
While uploading files on vcenter esxi datastores using vSphere web client I met with below failed error. And went with the VMware KB article provided in the error box.
The operation failed for an undetermined reason. Typically this problem occurs due to certificates that the browser does not tru…
FIND FREE OR UNASSIGNED STORAGE LUN DISKS ON VMWARE ESXI SERVER
This is one of my small script. And I use it to find free or unassigned unforrmatted LUNs/Disks on Esxi server. When Lun or disk from storage (most probably remote) assigned and presented to Esxi server, this LUN doesn't have any partition, and unformatted as a raw disk, This is visible when you try…
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