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Hello Everyone, Today, I am covering about the VMware Cloud Foundation deployment series. It will be a long series as well. VMware Cloud Foundation aka VCF, is an integrated soultion stack which bundles with VMware vSphere, vSAN, NSX and Monitoring and Logging solutions like vROPS and vRLI. VCF is a Hybrid cloud platfrom which can integrate with cloud platforms like AWS, GCP etc. Once the VCF is UP then we can deploy other solutions like VMware Tanzu Grid, Horizon View, vRealize Automation as well as a VI Workload Domains. There are 2 types of VCF Architecture i.e Standard and Consolidated. In Standard architecture , we have a first domain i.e called Management Domain which contains all the management components servers like vCenter, NSX Manager, vROPS, vRLI. In this domain, we should have 4 ESXi nodes with vSAN as a storage. Management domain can run with vSAN only. For VI Workload domain, it can accept vSAN as well as other storage like FC, NFS etc. Once, we have Management Domain UP...

 Hi Everyone, This post covers, how to run or schedule a Cron job in ESXi hosts.  However, ESXi does not need to run a cron job, i never seen the cron job uses on ESXi platform as it is heavily use on Linux and Unix systems to automate the scripts. But, few days back, i was getting struggled to one of my ESXi 6.5 host which is getting disconnected from vcenter in every 4-5 hours. It is also stopped to pinging as well. I have to restart the management agents to take back on the network via DCUI. I tried to get the logs but didn't find the actual root cause of this issue. I didn't spend too much time to find the issue as well since it is a developement host running as a standalone. I was thinking to rebuild it as well but several VMs running on this host and since it is development host, so we have a single logical volume which consists ESX footprint as well as VMs footprint. So, i can't rebuild it anymore. Now, I don't want to leave it as it is as well because the Develo...