Yevgeniy Steblyanko is an Infrastructure Architect/SME with experience in virtualization area for more than 15 years. His areas of interest are VMware vSphere, vSAN, NSX, automation on PowerCLI/PowerNSX. He has VMware certifications: VCIX-DCV, VCIX-NV.

Automate bulk Windows and Linux VMs creation from template with Guest OS customization

VMware vSphere Infrastructure build completed, tested and ready for workloads. What’s next? Right, it’s time to create bunch of Windows and Linux VMs for customers! Fastest way to do so – prepare VMware PowerCLI / PowerShell script. In my case as part of the project I had to build 200+… Continue reading

VMware NSX VPN tunnels statistics collection with PowerShell

I’ve been assigned the task of gathering VPN statistics for a client. Their system operates on VMware NSX 4.0.0.1. After checking, I found that the current PowerCLI lacks the capability to extract VPN statistics. Since VMware NSX has a RestAPI interface, we can perform various actions through RestAPI calls. I’ve… Continue reading

Export / Backup VMware NSX ESG/DLR configurations with PowerNSX (part 2, DLRs)

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Part 2 This is Part 2 for the article “Export / Backup VMware NSX ESG/DLR configurations with PowerNSX (part 1, ESGs)”. I’m going to show how you can export configuration for DLRs in your environment. How to use this script The way to use script is the same as in… Continue reading

Export / Backup VMware NSX ESG/DLR configurations with PowerNSX (part 1, ESGs)

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Why do you need this. If you work with VMware NSX on daily basis you should care about Backup & Restore procedure. According to VMware you can schedule NSX Manager backup and think you are on safe side but restore procedure requires to perform full NSX Manager restore and then… Continue reading

App Volumes permissions on ESXi host

We are using AppVolumes Manager on several environments together with Horizon View. When we were deploying the first AppVolume Manager I was asked to provide permissions for AppVolume Manager to local ESXi hosts to avoid using root permissions. There are guides which you can use to setup all required permissions… Continue reading

HDD failed in vSAN cluster (Softlayer) – how to replace it

In this article I would like to show you how to replace failed HDD (or SSD) drive in VMware vSAN cluster running on Softlayer Cloud. 1. Open web-client and navigate to: Hosts and Clusters -> choose Cluster -> Manage -> Settings -> Virtual SAN -> Disk Management You will see all… Continue reading