Net 701 Lab19

Monitoring Virtual Machine Performance

In this task, we are going to look the VM monitoring tools of vSenter server.

For this, I have gone to the VMs and templates option and selected a VM and went to performance option. 

Then went to the advanced option there I could see the real-time CPU usage.

Then I have clicked on the Chart options, I have selected CPU and in the time span I have selected Real-time, here I can see the customized monitoring only for CPU.

Then I have deselected the clone 3.

Then I have Click on None to deselect all selected counters in counters pan. Then selected Ready and Used options.

When I clicked ok I could see the CPU ready values on the dowd side of the screen. As well as when I have moved to the graph it shows me the values at that point.

That is all about the monitoring tools, we can also monitor other services like datastore, memory, disks etc. using this tool. 

Net 701- Lab15

Managing Virtual Machines 

In this task, we are going to unregister a Virtual Machine from the inventory. Unregistering the virtual machine from the inventory does not delete it from the data store, let us see how it works. 

First, we have to shut down the running machine.

Then I have right click on the VM and selected Remove from Inventory option.

Now it got deleted from the inventory,then I have navigated to the data store and found the VM in the datastore.

Now we will restore the VM from the datastore by registering with the vCenter Server. I have selected and right clicked on the  .vmx file in the datastore and selected the option register VM. Then selected inventory location and click ok to move it to the inventory.

Now the VM is back in the Inventory.

Next, we will unregister and delete VM from the disk. This will delete the configuration files and virtual disk files, from the datastore. 

Now the "VM From Temp" machine from the datastore as well.

Our next task is to take a snapshot of the VM, snapshot will take state and data of VM at the time we take the snapshot. We can use snapshot to go back to the old state of the VM. For this task I am selecting the test VM which is already in my inventory and logged in as administrator. 

To demonstrate the state status I am going to create a file called 'test file 01' on my desktop.

Now I am taking a snapshot of the machine and named it as 'with test file'. In the description also I have mentioned that. 

I could see the status of creating snapshot.

Now I am going back to the VM and deleting the test file from the desktop. Then again we will take a snapshot, so that after the creation of snapshot one should have the test file and other one should not have it.

Then I went to the snapshot manager I could see the two snapshots what we created. 

Now we will look ho to revert to a snap shot, this will explain how we can go back to a previous state of VM, with the help of snapshot. To test it I went to the snapshot manager and selected the 'with test file'snapshot and select Revert to option. This should give us the deleted file back on desktop let us check it out.

First I have restored the last snapshot then I realize that it is not making scene because it will restore the state where the file already deleted. Then I have user the first snapshot which contains the test file.

Then I could see the status as revert snapshot has been completed.

Now it got restored to the previous state so that the deleted file I could see on my desktop.

Then I went to the snapshot manager again, now the you are here pointer has been moved up to the first snapshot.

Now we will check how to delete an individual snapshot. For that, I went to Manage snapshots and selected the second snapshot and select delete button. 

There is an another option to delete all snapshots in the snapshot manager, let us check it out.

I have selected the Delete All option and I could delete all the screen shots.

That is all about Screenshots and managing Virtual Machines.

Net-701 VMware and NetApp

Net-701 VMware and NetApp

This blog is to provide all the blog links for NET-701 course. This includes configuration of NetApp Vsim and Install, Configure and manage VMware vSphere.

NetApp Modules

Module 1: http://ramvijo.blogspot.com/2016/09/net701-module-1-netapp-vsim.html

Module 2: http://ramvijo.blogspot.com/2016/09/net701-module-2-hardware-basics-and.html

Module 3: http://ramvijo.blogspot.com/2016/09/net701-module-3-create-aggregates-and.html

Module 4: http://ramvijo.blogspot.com/2016/10/net701-module-4-getting-started-with.html

Module 5: http://ramvijo.blogspot.com/2016/10/net-701-module-5-protecting-data-using.html

Module 6: http://ramvijo.blogspot.com/2016/10/net-701-module-6-creating-lun.html

VMware vSphere Labs

Lab 1: http://ramvijo.blogspot.com/2016/10/net701-vmware-lab1.html

Lab 2: http://ramvijo.blogspot.com/2016/10/net701-vmware-lab2.html

Lab 3: http://ramvijo.blogspot.com/2016/10/net701-vmware-lab3.html

Lab 5: http://ramvijo.blogspot.com/2016/10/net701-vmware-lab-5.html

Lab 6: http://ramvijo.blogspot.com/2016/10/net701-vmware-lab-6.html

Lab 7: http://ramvijo.blogspot.com/2016/10/net701-vmware-lab-7.html

Lab 8: http://ramvijo.blogspot.com/2016/10/net701-vmware-lab-8.html

Lab 9: http://ramvijo.blogspot.com/2016/10/net701-vmware-lab-9.html

Lab 10 : http://ramvijo.blogspot.com/2016/10/net701-vmware-lab-10.html

Lab 11: http://ramvijo.blogspot.com/2016/10/net701-vmware-lab-11.html

Lab 26: http://ramvijo.blogspot.com/2016/10/net701-vmware-lab26.html

Lab 12: http://ramvijo.blogspot.com/2016/10/net-701-lab-12.html

Lab 13: http://ramvijo.blogspot.com/2016/10/net-701-lab-13.html

Lab 15: http://ramvijo.blogspot.com/2016/10/net-701-lab15.html

Lab 19: http://ramvijo.blogspot.com/2016/10/net-701-lab19.html

Net 701: Lab 13

Modifying a Virtual Machine 

Here we are modifying the VM which we have created in the earlier LAB.

I have changed it to 21 GB.

Now we will check how to adjust memory on VM. For that, I have to power off the VM. 

Then I have moved to the edit VM option and changed the memory size to 4GB.

Then I have renamed the VM to test VM04

I have added a new had disk and selected my VMIF datastore which we have created in the previous lab. To add a raw LUN to the VM.

Now I have added the Hard Disk.

Here we are done with the Lab 13, now we have modified the VM Memory and Hard Disk also we have added an LUN drive to the VM.

Net 701 Lab 12

Using Templates and Clones

To create a template, we need to shutdown the Virtual Machine. 

I have created the template by right clicking on the VM

Then I could see the template has been created in the VM template folder.

Then I have moved it to the template folder what we have created in the previous lab.

I have right clicked and renamed the VM to test_template.

Now we will look how to deploy a virtual machine from the template, I have right clicked on the template and selected the option.

Once the configuration has completed we can see the status of the clone on the right side, In tasks.  

Once the creation has completed I could see the virtual machine in the virtual Machine folder.

Now we will try to clone a powered on VM, for that, I have right clicked on the VM and selected the option.

I could see the task status on the resent task. The cloning has been successful.