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The document provides instructions for various virtualization tasks in VMware vSphere including: 1. Creating a virtual machine, editing virtual machine settings, cloning a virtual machine, and deploying a clone. 2. Using tags and labels to categorize virtual machines. 3. Configuring high availability and distributed resource scheduler clusters. 4. Creating alarms to monitor resources and triggering actions. 5. Accessing performance graphs and the vRealize Operations interface.

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Labwork Cse427

The document provides instructions for various virtualization tasks in VMware vSphere including: 1. Creating a virtual machine, editing virtual machine settings, cloning a virtual machine, and deploying a clone. 2. Using tags and labels to categorize virtual machines. 3. Configuring high availability and distributed resource scheduler clusters. 4. Creating alarms to monitor resources and triggering actions. 5. Accessing performance graphs and the vRealize Operations interface.

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Topics from 1910-01-sdc LAB

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#1 Creation of virtual machine


 Login to chrome, using windows authentication.
 Click on home icon, select VMs and Templates
 Expand the vcsa-01a.corp.local tree to expose the "DataCenter Site A" object
 Click on "DataCenter Site A"
 Click "Create a new virtual machine" to start the new virtual machine wizard
 Select cluster, storage(datastore) and make other relevant changes
 Click finish

#2 Editing the settings of Virtual machine/ setting up image for virtual


machine
 From the Actions menu, select Edit Settings...
 From the CD/DVD drive 1 drop-down menu, select Datastore ISO File. This will
open a file explorer to select that file.
 Expand the directories under vmimges and then click on tools-isoimages.
 Select windows.iso in the Content pane
 Click OK.
 Click the Connected check box next to CD/DVD drive 1.
 Click OK.

#3 Cloning virtual machine


 Select "VMs and Templates" from the Home menu
 Click the drop down arrows to expand the inventory tree
 Right-click the Virtual Machine "TinyLinux-01"
 Select "Clone"
 Select "Clone to Template"
 In the Clone Virtual Machine to Template wizard, provide a name for the Template
"TinyLinux Template"
 Keep datacenter as site A
 Click next choose cluster and click datastore according to availability.
 Click Finish.

#4 deploying a clone
 Select the Template, "TinyLinux Template"
 Select the "Getting Started" tab
 Under Basic Tasks in the action pane, click "Deploy to a new virtual machine"
 Enter name, datacentre and click next
 Select cluster, storage and finish
#5 Using tags and user defined labels
 Click the Home Menu
 Select "Tags and Custom Attributes" to create tag categories and tags.
 Click "New Category"
 Enter "web tier" for the Category Name.
 Keep the default "One tag per object"
 Click "OK"
 Click 'New Tag' to create
 To create a new tag enter "Web Server version 2"
 Click the tag category "web tier" in the drop down box.
 Select "OK"

#6 Configuring High availability in cluster


 First, go to the "Home" button
 Select "Hosts and Clusters"
 Click "Cluster Site A"
 Click "Actions" to bring up the drop down menu.
 Click "Settings"
 Click "vSphere Availability" under "Services" to bring up the settings for high
 availability. Note that you may need to scroll to the top of the list.
 Click "Edit"
 Check the box "Turn ON vSphere HA"
 Click 'Failures and Responses'.
 From the VM Monitoring drop-down list, select 'VM and Application
 Monitoring'.
 Click 'Admission Control '.
 In the 'Define host failover capacity by' drop-down menu, select 'Cluster
 resource percentage'.
 Click 'Heartbeat Datastores'.
 Select 'Automatically select datastores accessible from the host'.
 Click 'OK' to enable vSphere HA.

#7 Enabling DRS
 Click on the 'Configure' tab to start the process of enabling Distributed Resource
 Scheduler.
 Click 'vSphere DRS'.
 Click on the 'Edit' button to modify the DRS settings.
 Verify that the "Turn ON vSphere DRS" box is checked.
 Click the drop down box and select "Fully Automated"
 Click "OK"
 Click the 'Summary' tab to display the current status of the cluster

#8 Creating Alarms
 Click on the 'Actions' menu and select 'Alarms > New Alarm Definition'.
 Enter "Virtual Machine CPU Ready"
 Click "Next" to move to the Triggers section.
 Click the "+" to add a new trigger action.
 Scroll down the list and select the "VM CPU Ready Time" and keep the default
conditions.
 Click "Next"
 Click the "+" to add a new action
 Click the "Migrate VM" action
 Click the Resource Pool; Host; Priority in the Configuration column. Once you
click it, it will change to Click to Configure. Click this link to configure the
Resource Pool settings for when the VM migrates.

#9 Editing alarms
 Click the "Home" icon, Click the "Events" menu item
 Select the vCenter "vcsa-01a.corp.local"
 Click the "Monitor" tab
 Click the "Alarm Definitions" tab.
 Use the filter to find the "Host CPU usage" alarm definition by typing "cpu" in the
 search field and press Enter.
 Select the "Host CPU usage" alarm
 Click the "Edit" button
 Click on the "Triggers" portion of the alarm.
 Click "80%" usage for 5 minutes to trigger the alarm.
 click "Next"
 Click the "+" to add a new action.
 scroll on the list and click "Enter maintenance mode"
 Set the "Alert State Change" to "Once"
 Set the "Alert State Change" to "Once"
 Click "Finish"

#10 Create a graph of relevant


 Select esx-01a.corp.local
 Click the Monitor tab
 Click the Performance tab
 Select Realtime from the Time Range drop-down menu.

#11 Create a standard switch


 Under vcsa-01a.corp.local, expand Datacenter Site A and then Cluster Site A.
 Next, right-click on esx-02a.corp.local in the Navigator and select 'Add
Networking'.
 select Standard Switch and click Next
 choose New Standard Switch and click Next.
 Select 'Unused Adapters' and click the green '+' button.
 Click 'Next to continue.
 Do not change change the VLAN ID; leave this set to None (0).

#12 Creating a distributed switch


 In the Navigator, right-click on Datacenter Site A and select Distributed Switch -->
New Distributed Switch.
 Keep the default name for the new distributed switch then click Next.
 Make sure Distributed Switch: 6.5.0 is selected and click Next.

#13 Create an nfs datastore


 Select "Datacenter Site A"
 Select "Actions"
 Select "Storage"
 Select "New Datastore"
 Click the "Next" button to advance the wizard to the "Type" step.
 Verify type - NFS - is selected, and click "Next"
 Verify NFS Version - NFS 3 - is selected, and click "Next"
 Give the new Datastore a name, "ds-site-a-nfs02"
 Enter the Folder "/mnt/NFS02" in the NFS Share Details area.
 Enter the Server "10.10.20.60" in the NFS Share Details area and click "Next"
 Select the "check box" to include all hosts and select "Next".

#14 Create a vmfs datastore


 Select "Datacenter Site A"
 Select "Actions"
 Select "Storage"
 Select "New Datastore"
 Verify type - VMFS - is selected, and click "Next"
 Give the new Datastore a name, "ds-iscsi02"
 Select a Host to view the accessible disks/LUNs and select esx-01a.corp.local in the
drop-down box.
 Click "Next"

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#15 Reclaim resources


 Open google chrome
 Click the vRealize Operations - Historical Instance
 choose local users, Enter user credentials. Username is admin and password is
VMware1! and login
 Select Reclaim on the Quick Start Page
 Click Reclaim for the datacentre
 Select from the given action, power off, delete or snapshot, accordingly.

#16 Workload scenario for capacity planning


 Open google chrome
 Click the vRealize Operations - Live Instance
 Select VMware Identity Manager, USER: hol PASSWORD: VMware1!
 Click the Plan link to go into workload, New Rainpole Project
 2. Select the Datacenter RegionA01 (vcsa-01a.corp.local)
 3. Allow this workload to be on Any cluster
 build out the configuration
 Select ADVANCED CONFIGURATION
 Click the radio button for 'Thin'.
 Click Save so we can come back to this scenario.

Topics from 1911-06-cmp LAB


#17 Accessing the API explorer
 Launch Google Chrome by clicking the "Chrome"
 change the url to, https://vcsa-01a.corp.local/apiexplorer
 Select vCenter from API Drop Down.
 Click on Cluster
 Click on /vcenter/cluster
 Scroll all the way down until you see the "Try it out button"
 Try out the API from the ex

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