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VMware Virtual SAN Design and Sizing Guide
Now that we have officially launched Virtual SAN, its time for everyone to get up to speed with the some of the latest and greatest changes with regards to the new design and sizing considerations...
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Getting ready to upgrade production to vCenter Server 5.5? Make sure your...
Over the last few months, many customers have been testing and familiarizing themselves with vSphere 5.5 however deployment into a production environment is usually stalled until the availability of...
View ArticleRestricting Access to the ESXi Host Console – Revisiting Lockdown Mode
I’ve had a number of requests for recommendations on the “best way” to restrict access to the ESXi host console. While this is easily done using the ESXi Lockdown Mode feature I’m finding there are...
View ArticlevCenter Server 5.5 Update 1 Released
As hinted throughout most of the day, the vCenter Server 5.5 Update 1 has been publicly released this evening. vCenter Server 5.5 Update 1 | 11 MAR 2014 | Build 1623101 vCenter Server 5.5 Update 1...
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Virtual SAN: Scaling Storage Capacity
One of the most discussed topics about Virtual SAN has been around its scalable architecture design and the ability to scale up and scale out. In this article, I want to discuss and showcase the scale...
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Join our VMware Hands-on Labs Online Workshop on Tuesday, March 25th 10:00 AM...
Join our VMware Hands-on Labs Online Workshop on Tuesday, March 25th 10:00 AM PDT. In our vSphere with Operations Management 101 online workshop, you will learn first-hand how vCenter Operations...
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VMware Virtual SAN: 32 Node Scale Out Capability
Virtual SAN is now available and officially supports up to 32 nodes per cluster. Configuring and managing clustered solutions comprised of 32 nodes can become operationally intensive, time consuming,...
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vSphere OpenStack Virtual Appliance (VOVA): Product Walkthrough Demos
I’ve created a new set of vSphere OpenStack Virtual Appliance (VOVA) walkthrough demos for vSphere admins that are interested in learning about OpenStack and what it can do. The walkthrough demos are...
View ArticleSecurity Updates in vSphere 5.5 Update 1 + Hardening Guide news
5.5 Update 1 Release Notes vSphere 5.5 Update 1 was released on March 11th, 2014. The primary drivers for this release were lots of bug fixes and support for VSAN. At the risk of duplicating a huge...
View ArticlePVSCSI and Large IO’s
Here’s a behavior that a few people have questioned me about recently: Why is PVSCSI splitting my large guest operating system IO’s into smaller blocks? By default ESXi’s behavior is to pass IO’s from...
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vSphere HA VM Monitoring – Back to Basics
In my experience as a customer, partner and working for VMware, I’ve found HA VM monitoring to be an incredibly helpful feature that I am consistently surprised is not used more. It is easy to turn on,...
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VMware Virtual SAN: Cross Cluster Migrations
I was recently involved in a conversations with regards to Virtual SAN and virtual machine migration capabilities. A few customers have been wondering about whether or not all of the vSphere migration...
View ArticlevSphere Distributed Switch, Traffic Filtering
When talking with customers about our vSphere Distributed Switch I often find that they don’t know about a feature in the Traffic Filtering policy engine that allows for creation of Access Control...
View ArticlevSphere Distributed Switch – Backup and Restore
Continuing on with features found in the vSphere Distributed Switch, the Backup and Restore capability is a feature I rarely saw used when I was in the field. I saw, and still do see, customers going...
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VMware Virtual SAN Interoperability: vSphere Replication and vCenter Site...
For the third article of the Virtual SAN interoperability series, I want to showcase the interoperability between Virtual SAN vSphere Replication and vCenter Site Recovery Manager. This demonstration...
View ArticlePivotal CF 1.1 on VMware vSphere: Making it Easier for Developers to Build...
In Q4, 2013, Pivotal CF 1.0 was made available to customers and the vSphere team announced that VMware will begin resell of Pivotal CF. Pivotal CF is the commercially supported hybrid...
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What happened to that Hardening Guide setting?
Hi! As usual, most of my blog posts come from customer or field questions. Here’s a new one crossed my path recently. A customer, running vSphere 5.1, was finding some anomalies within their VM’s....
View ArticleBig Data Extensions – Four new demo videos available
Four new demonstrations using the vSphere Big Data Extensions (BDE) have recently been made available on the VMwareTV area on Youtube for your use. They are all compact (less than 5 minutes in...
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App HA 1.1 Released – Now available for download
The latest version of App HA, 1.1, was released last week and is now available for download. This release has a number of cool new features that will greatly increase the usability of App HA. I will...
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Effect of VAAI on cloning with All Flash Arrays:
Cloning virtual machines is an area where VAAI can provide many advantages. Flash storage arrays provide excellent IO performance. We wanted to see what difference VAAI makes in virtual machine cloning...
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