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vSphere Client Displays Empty Inventory

Suddenly my home datacenter  vsphere lab show empty inventory in vSphere client. There was no any host at all. I have three ( Cisco IOU, CentOS 7, Ubuntu server) host configure for lab  purpose. So I must recover those host to complete my lab because I almost completed all labs.  Thus here is process how to retrieve those lost host from vSphere client in vSphere 6 database. Step 1: Login to the vSphere client choose your database from Configuration Tab > right click database and choose "Browse Dababase". Step 2: Now next window open the database page. From here open your host folder then choose ".vmx" right click and choose "Add to inventory" then follow the onscreen instruction. Next window  Select the database Next click to finish Now your server is in the inventory list, you can run the server. In my case its my CentOS 7 server, it will run smoothly. 

JunOS VirtualBox GNS3

 This is the Step 2 in our GNS3 Lab with JunOS, Quagga and Cisco router. I have tried different tutorial posted in other blogs. I've never found any tutorial  work until now. Every-time I stuck at the middle of the tutorials.  In this blog post, I'll show you how to install JunOS in VBox and later I'll integrate it into GNS3 lab. I have take Olive12.1R1.9.img, I know you're smart to get it from the Internet. Lets begin the installation of JunOS. Before that, convert the JunOS image into Vbox vdi Image. For easy installation and to avoid error during this tutorial, enter into the JunOS folder, in my case. This tutorials assume that you have already install GNS3 and VBox . Step 1 Prepare JunOS for VBox. C:\Users\jpudasaini\Desktop\jun>"C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxmanage" convertdd Olive12.1R1.9.img Olive12.1.R1.9.vdi Its take time to convert the image, wait for few minute depends on your PC configuration. Now go to the jun fol