vSphere High Availability

vSphere High Availability (HA) provides easy to use and cost-effective high availability for virtual machines and applications running in virtual machines. HA is part of Cluster and can be enabled from Cluster settings at the time of Cluster creation or later.

HA is a very important and useful feature of vSphere to keep virtual machines up and running with minimum downtime. HA keep eye on all hosts in the cluster and when any host failure happens HA, restarts affected VMs on another host in the cluster.

How to Install VMware ESXi on VMware Workstation

This article explains that how to install VMware ESXi as a VM on VMware Workstation. It can help to try and learn ESXi without dedicated resources. Also, it is useful if you are doing VCP certification.

Prerequisites:

1.       You should have VMware Workstation installed

2.       Get the ESXi ISO from VMware Download Center

Create VM for ESXi:

Patching of ESXi 6.5 or Later from CLI

Patch Installation or Update on ESXi 6.5 or Later from CLI

Host Patching is a process to install or update patches on ESXi hosts. It can be done from VMware Update Manager for from CLI. This article summaries the procedure of patch update or installation on ESXi 6.5 or later versions from command line (SSH).

Enable SSH on ESXi

Vcenter:- Select Host->Configure->System->Security Profile->Services->Edit->SSH->Start->OK

ESXi:- Host->Action->Services->Enable Secure Shell (SSH)