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Storage Protocol Comparison (A vSphere Perspective) White Paper now available
A number of months ago I published a blog article which compared the different storage protocols which are found in a vSphere environment. On the back of this posting, a number of folks reached out to...
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Using the vSphere ESXi Image Builder CLI
Kyle Gleed, Sr. Technical Marketing Architect, VMware I’ve had several requests for a brief tutorial on using the vSphere ESXi Image Builder CLI. I hope this post will help people better understand the...
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SRM 5.0.1 Upgrade with vSphere Replication
Posted byKen WerneburgSr Tech Marketing Manager Upgrading from 5.0 to 5.0.1 is such a very simple process that it doesn't require a lot of attention, but there's one quick caveat regarding the vSphere...
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Retrieving Information from VMware VDS + Cisco Nexus 1000v
By William Lam, Sr. Technical Marketing EngineerRecently, we have been receiving numerous questions about extracting information from a VMware vSphere Distributed Virtual Switch (VDS) and whether it...
View ArticleTechnical Marketing Update 2012 - Week 17
By Duncan Epping, Principal Architect. Technical Marketing Update 2012 - Week 17 Great white paper by Cormac Hogan on Storage Protocols. I know many of you have asked for this in the past, so I am sure...
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McAfee MOVE Antivirus joins the vShield Endpoint Family
We have seen a tremendous amount of customer interest in optimizing endpoint security in VMware vSphere and VMware View environments. As server consolidation ratios rise and as large scale virtual...
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Scale Out VSA - Mounting VSA NFS datastores to non-VSA ESXi hosts
I've written a great many post around the vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA), a selection of which can be found at this link. However I don't think I've ever explained how the NFS datastores (which are...
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New Storage Features in VMware View 5.1
VMware's flagship VDI product, VMware View, has a new release coming out. I don't normally blog about EUC (End User Computing) or VDI as it is not my area of expertise. However VMware View 5.1 has a...
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SDN, BYOIT, and the Software Defined Data Center
Posted by Matt Dreyer Software Defined Networking promises to disrupt nearly every aspect of networking: Software Defined WAN, Software Defined WiFi, Software Defined Fabric, and on and on. Radical...
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Combining affinity rule types
By Frank Denneman, Sr. Technical Marketing Architect Recently a customer asked if host-vm affinity rules and VM-VM anti-affinity rules can be combined and what the impact and caveats are of this...
View ArticleHave you seen that VMware has joined the Open Compute Project? If not, check...
Many of us have been looking for the latest innovations in datacenter design for a long time. Well, this new project might be it. The Open Compute Project started not too long ago by Facebook, has a...
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Using the Entity Resolver in the vCloud API
By William Lam, Sr. Technical Marketing EngineerI recently received a question about whether it was possible to look up a vCloud Director Object with just knowing the object’s unique identifier (URN...
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VMFS Locking Uncovered
Posted by Cormac HoganTechnical Marketing Architect (Storage) In one of my very first blog posts last year around the new improvements made to VMFS-5 in vSphere 5.0, one of the enhancements I called...
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ESXi Image Builder and Auto Deploy PowerCLI Quick Reference
Kyle Gleed, Sr. Technical Marketing Architect, VMware To help the PowerCLI novice get started with Image Builder and Auto Deploy I put together the attached quick reference guides. Working with the...
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Hosting.com shares data on bandwidth, sync times, and RPOs with vSphere...
Posted byKen WerneburgTech Marketing It's my pleasure this week to have some data to share with you that comes from usage of Site Recovery Manager with real systems and VMs. I often get asked to...
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Backup Design for vCloud Director Tenant vApps Whitepaper
By William Lam, Sr. Technical Marketing EngineerA new whitepaper was recently released by VMware called Backup Design for vCloud Tenant vApps to help provide guidance to partners looking to design and...
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A closer look at the View Storage Accelerator [incl. Video]
A whole bunch of blog posts have appeared recently around the new View Storage Accelerator in VMware View 5.1, including my own introduction here. I think this goes to show how much excitement there is...
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Why use Static Port Binding on VDS ?
In the last post Demystifying port limits... I discussed the vitual port limits on the vSphere Standard (VSS) and Distributed switch (VDS). While discussing the VDS limits, I talked about the three...
View ArticleLefthand joins the vSphere Metro Storage Cluster program
HP Lefthand has just joined EMC in the vSphere Metro Storage Cluster program. HP Lefthand was the first to certify for iSCSI as reported here by HP's virtualization and storage evangelist Calvin Zito....
View ArticleESXiShellTimeOut Doesn’t Work in vSphere 5.0
Kyle Gleed, Sr. Technical Marketing Architect, VMware I recently spent some time in my lab applying all the security recommendations outlined in the 5.0 Hardening Guide and while doing this I was very...
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