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vSphere 5.1 – VDS New Features – BPDU Filter
As you might know by now, with the release of vSphere 5.1, VMware has enhanced vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS) operationally as well as functionally. I talked about the new features briefly in the...
View Articleresxtop fails to connect to a vSphere 5.1 host
If you have recently installed the latest vCLI 5.1 release and using the remote resxtop utility to connect to a vSphere 5.1 host, you might have noticed one of the following error messages: Login...
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Manage the vCloud Suite vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA) 5.1 from the vSphere...
With the vSphere Web Client being the current and future client user interface for vCenter Server managed objects and resources, I thought it would be a good idea to show folks how to enable the...
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Automating CA Self-Signed Certificates for ESXi 5.1 for use with resxtop
Last week I wrote an article about resxtop failing to connect to an ESXi 5.1 host due to SSL Certificate validation which has been implemented in resxtop and I provided a few workarounds that you can...
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Load Balancing using vCloud Networking and Security 5.1 Edge
VMware vCloud Networking and Security Edge is part of the vCloud Networking and Security solution and provides network edge security and gateway services such as DHCP, VPN, NAT, Firewall and Load...
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Configuring SNMP v1/v2c/v3 Using ESXCLI 5.1
In previous releases of ESXi, only SNMP v1 and v2c was supported on the host. With the latest release of ESXi 5.1, we now have added support for SNMPv3 which provides additional security when...
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Is vSphere Replication storage agnostic even when using SRM?
In short: Yes, it sure is! In this post I’ll show 6 VMs being protected with vSphere Replication. 2 VMs each will reside on fibre channel data stores (EMC CX4), iSCSI data stores (Falconstor NSS...
View ArticleUpdated VMFS Whitepaper now available
A new version of the VMFS Technical Overview and Best Practices white paper is now available. It has been updated for vSphere 5.x & VMFS5. You can download the paper from the VMware Technical...
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VMware vSphere Data Protection (VDP) Error and Time Synchronization
Using vSphere Data Protection (VDP), I have seen the following error a few times and it has appeared in forums so I thought it would make sense to post a short article on it. “The most recent request...
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vSphere 5.1 DRS Resource Distribution web client shows different statistics...
Recently I have been receiving similar questions on the difference between the vSphere client and the new web client when it comes to displaying the memory utilization of a DRS cluster. The displayed...
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vCloud Suite – vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA) 5.1 Considerations for...
The concept of vSphere Storage Appliance Brownfield deployments is based around the introduction of the vSphere Storage Appliance 5.1 (VSA) solution into environments with existing virtualized...
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Getting Support For VMware APIs and SDKs?
A question that I hear frequently from our customers is how do I get support for the VMware APIs and SDKs? I’m sure that most of you are probably familiar with our VMware GSS (Global Support Services)...
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vCloud Suite – vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA) 5.1 Considerations for...
The second part of this blog series is focused around the vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA) 5.1 shared storage architecture as well as the configuration process and capabilities provided for Brownfield...
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vSphere 5.1 – VDS New Features – Network Health Check
This is the second blog of the VDS – New Features series. In this one I will talk about the Network Health check feature – what it is and how it works. Let’s first take a look at some operational...
View ArticleTechnical Marketing Update 2012 – Week 47 – #tmupdate
#TMUPDATE This week marks some milestones. For me personally, this week I started my 7th year here at VMware, and I’m personally excited that we still have cool stuff and I’m still thrilled to be...
View ArticleNew VAAI Whitepaper now available
A new white paper entitled VMware vSphere Storage APIs – Array Integration (VAAI) is now available. You can download the paper from the VMware Technical Resources web site here. This paper includes a...
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Recovering a Replicated vSphere Data Protection (VDP) Virtual Appliance
The question: Can a vSphere Data Protection (VDP) virtual appliance be successfully recovered from a replicated copy? “Successfully recovered” means not only recovering the appliance, but being able to...
View ArticleQuick Survey – Your vSphere environment today and tomorrow!
VMware Product Managers are looking for some data to future proof the design features of future vSphere releases and want to understand what your ESXi / vCenter Server environment looks like today, how...
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Configuring VDS Network Health Check Interval Using vSphere API
My colleague Venky Deshpande recently published an article about the new VDS Network Health Check feature which was introduced in the new vSphere 5.1 release. Venky provides an in-dept look on how this...
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Network Core Dump Collector Check with ESXCLI 5.1
The ESXi Dump Collector service is an extremely useful feature to have enabled, this is especially important in a stateless environment where there may not be a local disk for storing core dumps...
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