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What is profile-driven storage?
Security in the vSphere Environment. Security in the vSphere Environment. Securing the ESXi Hypervisor. Securing the ESXi Hypervisor. Securing vCenter Server Systems and Associated Services.
What is SPS in vCenter?
The Storage management service (SPS) communicates with vCenter Inventory Service while it is running. If you restart vCenter Inventory Service after an accidental or intentional shutdown, SPS can no longer communicate with the service. On the vCenter Server appliance, run the command service vmware-sps restart.
How do I start VMware vSphere profile-driven storage service?
Log in to the vSphere Web Client with a vCenter Single Sign-on administrator account. Navigate to Administration > Deployment > System Configuration. Click Nodes, select the vCenter Server Appliance node and click the Related Objects tab. Right-click on the service you would like to start and select Start.
What is storage profile in VMware?
Profile-Driven Storage is a feature in VMware vSphere 5 that allows users to intelligently provision applications, mapping virtual machines (VMs) to storage levels according to pre-defined service levels, storage availability, performance requirements or cost.
What is Vasa provider VMware?
VASA Provider for ONTAP uses VMware vSphere APIs for Storage Awareness (VASA) to improve storage management between Virtual Storage Console for VMware vSphere and the vCenter Server. You can use VASA Provider to manage features such as storage capability profiles, alarms, and virtual volumes (VVols).
Is it safe to reboot vCenter Server?
You can go ahead and reboot VCenter. It will have no effect on the running VM’s. VCenter is just there for management. When you reboot it you won’t be able to connect to vcenter to manage anything until it comes back up and I’ve known the vcenter appliance to take between 20 and 40 minutes to restart.
How do I restart SSO service?
To start or stop the Remedy SSO service on Windows
- Navigate to the computer where Remedy Single Sign-On is installed.
- Click Start > Run > services. msc.
- Start or stop the BMC Remedy Single Sign-On Server service.
What is a VM profile?
Virtual Machine Profiles. Virtual machine (VM) profiles in Lab on Demand (LOD) are used in lab profiles. VMs in LOD use either Hyper-V or VMware as the hypervisor.
What is Vasa API?
vStorage APIs for Storage Awareness (VASA) is a set of application program interfaces (APIs) that enables vSphere vCenter to recognize the capabilities of storage arrays. Such capabilities, including RAID, native thin provisioning and deduplication, are made visible within vCenter.
What is Vasa and vaai?
The VASA provider for NetApp ONTAP is a virtual appliance that supports VMware’s VASA (vStorage APIs for Storage Awareness). VMware VAAI (vSphere Storage APIs – Array Integration) allows for hardware acceleration and offload certain operations that originally occurs at the host level, to the storage system.
What will happen if vCenter goes down?
First of all, if vCenter becomes unavailable, all of your VMs will still run, but you will not be able to make any changes to the cluster configuration. In case of ESXi host is down, HA will continue to restart VMs that were powered on before vCenter became unavailable.
What will work if vCenter goes down?
So if vCenter is down then currently protected virtual machines will be restarted on other ESXi hosts but you will not be able to protect any new virtual machines until vCenter is available. Also you won’t be able to make changes to any HA feature such as Admission Control.