Tag: vSphere 6.0
Late last week, VMware and AWS announced a partnership where by VMware workloads will be able to run on AWS. The way it works is as you request the service, ESX hosts and a vCenter get spooled up and configured on bare-metal hardware within AWS datacentres.
This vCenter then connects to your existing environment and will allow for live vMotion of VMs between your on premise and the AWS cloud!
This is potentially a big shift in how companies will consume cloud services as essentially no re-architecture of applications is required to leverage the benefits of cloud – on demand, as-a-service model. ESX hosts and storage essentially become “unlimited” capacity, as at any moment you have the ability to request more resources! No lead times, no capital expenditure.
This is really cool and I think will make a big impact, especially for larger organisations. For more information check out the VMware Cloud on AWS website.
Recently I needed to configure all of our 50 or so ESXi hosts to forward SNMP traps to our corporate monitoring solution. This meant enabling and configuring SNMP on each of the hosts. Naturally, I wrote a script for this as 50 hosts is way too many to do manually.
This article shows you how configure SNMP on an ESXi host manually, via PowerCLI and via host profiles.