NSX CLI PowerNSX

Recently I was working on NSX automation and part of it I had to rely on PowerCLI. NSX central cli provides all the information but it is quite cumbersome to get what you need. Thankfully PowerNSX come to rescue us, check PowerNSX Bit Bucket link check out this great tool.

vRA Network profile IP Usage monitoring

I got question about VMware vRealize Automation (vRA/vCAC) network profiles usage details or monitoring/notifications that how can we monitor Network profiles, how much IPs are configured, consumed, available etc. Unfortunately there is no direct method you can do all these things also there are no notifications which you can configure.

After some research i have to decide to build something with vRO (vCO) that will do monitoring. I am using vRA 7 with embedded vRO (7). Below solution might not be the best and there is always scope for improvement, but it is doing what is supposed to do. I came across very great blog from Jonathan Medd which talks about using vRA as REST host.

Requirements:

1. Monitoring all network profiles in vRA for their usage
2. Allow configuring threshold – in this case how many IPs should always be available
3. If network profile usage is more than threshold should send email notification
4. Should not require manual intervention (scheduled)

vRA 7– Allocating resources to Business Group – Reservations and Reservation policies

 

In vRealize Automation VMs can only be deployed on reservations. Now before business groups can provision VMs, fabric administrator has to create one or multiple reservations and assign to business group. There is also one more component called Reservations policies, you can compare them to vSphere tags, they allow you to categorize and group multiple reservations. For example if you have more than 1 gold tier reservation, you can created single Gold Tier reservation policy and assign it to all your Gold Tier reservations.

SRM Upgrade Part 4 – Site Recovery Manager Upgrade 6.1

This is our final post on SRM Upgrade series. In this post we will go through upgrade process for Site Recovery Manager (SRM) from version 6.0 to 6.1, in previous post we completed vSphere Replication upgrade from version 6.0 to 6.1

 

Complete series is below.

SRM Upgrade Part 1 – vSphere Replication Upgrade 6.0

SRM Upgrade Part 2 – Site Recovery Manager Upgrade 6.0

SRM Upgrade Part 3– vSphere Replication Upgrade 6.1

SRM Upgrade Part 4 – Site Recovery Manager Upgrade 6.1

SRM Upgrade Part 3– vSphere Replication Upgrade 6.1

As we completed upgrade of vSphere Replication (VR) and Site Recovery Manager (SRM) from version 5.5 to 6.0 and verified everything is working as expected. If you have not followed earlier posts please do so this will give you overall picture of the upgrade process.

SRM Upgrade Part 1 – vSphere Replication Upgrade 6.0

SRM Upgrade Part 2 – Site Recovery Manager Upgrade 6.0

SRM Upgrade Part 3– vSphere Replication Upgrade 6.1

SRM Upgrade Part 4 – Site Recovery Manager Upgrade 6.1

In this post we will see how to upgrade vSphere Replication (VR) appliance from 6.0 to 6.1 version.

SRM Upgrade Part 2 – Site Recovery Manager Upgrade 6.0

In this post we will go through upgrade process for Site Recovery Manager(SRM) from version 5.5 to 6.0, in previous post we completed vSphere Replication upgrade from version 5.5 to 6.0

Complete series is as below.

SRM Upgrade Part 1 – vSphere Replication Upgrade 6.0

SRM Upgrade Part 2 – Site Recovery Manager Upgrade 6.0

SRM Upgrade Part 3– vSphere Replication Upgrade 6.1

SRM Upgrade Part 4 – Site Recovery Manager Upgrade 6.1

 

Site recovery manager brings lot of changes to its architecture over previous versions of SRM, features such as Web client plugin, multiple point in time recovery, SDRS, SvMotion etc. You can get here.

Prerequisites and best practices:

SRM Upgrade Part 1 – vSphere Replication Upgrade 6.0

This blog post is step by step upgrade guide for VMware Site Recovery manager and vSphere Replication, the posts are split to sections to keep the content small and help understand stages effectively.

SRM Upgrade Part 1 – vSphere Replication Upgrade 6.0
SRM Upgrade Part 2 – Site Recovery Manager Upgrade 6.0
SRM Upgrade Part 3– vSphere Replication Upgrade 6.1
SRM Upgrade Part 4 – Site Recovery Manager Upgrade 6.1

VMware Site Recovery Manager 6.1 was released back in November 2015 and provides some great features in terms NSX networks, stretched storage, policy based protection etc, full list is below

Site Recovery Manager upgrade

Recently I am working vCenter upgrade project which involve several vCenter servers, few of them was standalone vCenter servers where everything is installed in single server and few had really complex setup such as distributed installation with other VMware products configured such as Site Recovery Manager, vCloud Network and Security, vRealize Automation(formerly vCAC), vRealize Orchestrator(formerly vCO)

This post is specific to Site Recovery manager with vSphere Replication upgrade. To start with I had below setup in production

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My Name is Pankaj Varade and this is my personal blog related to virtualization mostly on VMware technologies.

I am working as Cloud Engineer with leading Telecom Company, working together with developers and infrastructure systems people.

I am holding some of the industry leading certifications like VCAP-CID, VCAP-CIA, VCAP-DCA, VCP-NV, MCSE, CCNA etc

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