VMware Multi Tenant

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Occasionally, you may find it necessary to change the name of a VM that you are using in your VMware Multi-Tenant environment. Perhaps the purpose of the VM has changed or you’ve launched a new project that is now the focus for a particular VM. Once you’ve updated the hostname of one of your VMs, we would recommend that you also update the name of the VM in your VDC so that our systems identify the VM the same way that you do. This will make Support interactions simpler and clearer in the future.

It seems that no matter how much storage is available, you could always use more. Additionally, there are times when you would like to share data between multiple servers and there is no efficient way to do so. Now, with our VMware Multi-Tenant system, you have the ability to add an NFS (Network File Share) to your VDC (Virtual Data Center) to meet your storage and flexibility needs.

If management options (such as power on/off) for a given VM are greyed out in your VDC, it’s possible that the ownership of the VM is not set to match the user that is currently logged in. Fortunately, adjusting the ownership of the VM is a simple process.

Changing the root (or administrator) password in a VM is done in the same way that you would change the password for any other server. However, once you change the server password, your VDC will also need to be updated in order to manage your VM correctly.

For customers using Liquid Web’s VMware Multi-Tenant product, VMware’s Cloud Director Availability (VCDA) utility can be used to migrate Virtual Machines (VMs) from an external provider to Liquid Web. Given the nature of migrations using VCDA, Liquid Web can only assist with facilitating the migration. The actual act of migrating the server with VCDA is done by the customer. 

VMware migrations can take many different forms. But each form has its own limitations and features. We’ll talk about some of these limitations and features so you have a better idea for what each migration type does for a VMware product.

Migrating to VMware can take your business to a new, higher level. Older, antiquated applications and deployments can find new life when leveraging the power of vSphere or similar VMware offerings. In this checklist, we will prepare you for migrating to VMware so that your digital transformation can be a success.