vSphere Distributed Switch – Network Monitoring
When users adopt the vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS) there is a whole new level to monitoring that becomes available that’s not possible with our vSphere Standard Switch. Industry standard tools such...
View ArticleIntro to Storage Resource Management
Most customers are aware of and are utilizing vSphere’s Resource Management capabilities in regards to compute and memory. On the contrary many of our customers, even the ones who own the licenses,...
View ArticleEnabling and Monitoring Storage I/O Control
Storage I/O Control (SIOC) is one of those features that tend to get forgotten about. I’ve talked to many customers both while I was in the field doing architectures and deployments and still today and...
View ArticleSAP HANA Now Supported on VMware vSphere 5.5 for Production Scenarios
Eighteen months ago at SAP SAPPHIRE Madrid 2012, VMware presented impressive performance data showcasing SAP HANA running on vSphere. At that time, vSphere 5.1 received support from SAP to run SAP HANA...
View ArticlevSphere Hardening Guide 5.5 Update 1 Beta released
Hi everyone, It’s that time again! Actually, it’s the first time that I’m aware of that the vSphere hardening guide has been updated between major releases! Please head on over to the Security and...
View ArticleChecking the vNUMA Topology
I’ve been asked a few times recently how to determine what virtual topology vNUMA recommended and created for us and besides looking at the obvious guest OS for the final result, you can also check the...
View ArticlevSphere Hardening Guide 5.5 Update 1 Beta 2 released
After a lot of great feedback from the community, here’s Beta 2.1 of the vSphere Hardening Guide for vSphere 5.5 Update 1. There were some editing mishaps (cut off cells in the Excel sheet) that have...
View ArticleDoes Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC) Affect Performance?
YES! Not that I’ve scared you, lets take a look at these use cases. Generally the consensus is that setting the EVC mode on a cluster is a good thing to make it easier to admit future ESXi hosts and it...
View ArticlevSphere Distributed Switch Concept Video
Over the past few months I’ve been creating assets showcasing the features and how to deploy them for our VMware vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS). This last video takes a much higher level overview to...
View ArticlevCenter Availability and Performance survey
As many of you know, I work very closely with VMware Product Management and Engineering and we are always looking for data points to support concepts and aid the development of future generations with...
View ArticleVirtual SAN Automatic “Add Disk to Storage Mode” Fails (Part II)
In part 1 of this article, we looked at an interesting scenario in which, despite having the Virtual SAN disk management setting set on automatic, Virtual SAN would not form disk groups around the...
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Virtual Spring Cleaning – Organization within vSphere
As I talk with more and more of our customers, it seems like there is an increasing number of IT/VMware admins that are experiencing “growing pains” in their environments. This does not come as a...
View ArticlevSphere Hardening Guide 5.5 Update 1 Released!
I’m happy to announce the general availability of the vSphere Hardening Guide for vSphere 5.5 Update 1. This has been a work in progress for a little while now and I’m glad to get it out there! There...
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Which vCenter Server platform should I use – Appliance or Windows?
One of the most repetitive questions that I get asked is which version of vCenter Server should I be using. This obviously is based on the decision between using the vCenter Server appliance (VCSA)...
View ArticlevCenter Server 5.5 Update 1b released
Today VMware released an update to its virtualization management solution, vCenter Server. The update brings several fixes as documented in the release notes which can be reviewed in full here. The new...
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Hadoop moves to 2.0 – Virtualizing the New YARN
Hadoop 2.0, also known as Yet Another Resource Negotiator (YARN) is the newest generation of the Hadoop technology that is in popular use today for highly distributed processing and management of big...
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Virtual SAN Ready Nodes – Ready, Set, Go!
What is the VMware Virtual SAN team announcing today? The VMware Virtual SAN product team is very excited to announce 24 new Virtual SAN Ready Nodes from leading OEM vendors – Dell (3 Ready Nodes),...
View ArticleSLES for VMware End of Availability Announcement
On June 25, 2014, VMware is announcing the End of Availability (EoA) of all SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) for VMware offerings. As a result, the SLES for VMware offering will be removed from the...
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Getting Started with VMware vCenter Orchestrator – Building Many Virtual...
I’ve recently been building and rebuilding some of our physical labs many, many times. I’ve found that I have a very common base configuration that I need to start with and it takes me a while to...
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VMware vCenter Orchestrator – vCenter Invalid Credentials
There are a few errors I’ve run into over the years that just stump me. Like you, I start doing some web searches and piecing things together. I cross-reference what I find with people I think may have...
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