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vSphere IAAS Interoperability: Virtual SAN, NSX, OpenStack
Just in time and right before everyone is off on a long 4th of July weekend here in the good old U.S. of A, I wanted to share a integration demo that I’ve been holding for some time now. Hopefully...
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New Virtual SAN Ready Nodes from Cisco and Hitachi!
What is the VMware Virtual SAN team announcing today? Further to the initial launch of the new Virtual SAN Ready Nodes two weeks back, the VMware Virtual SAN product team is launching more Virtual SAN...
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Journey to the SDDC – vSphere with Operations Management
Are you looking at the Software-Defined Datacenter (SDDC) and taking a dive into the vCloud Suite? As you take your journey it sometimes becomes confusing and potentially overwhelming as you look at...
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SSH keys when using Lockdown Mode – A 5.x Hardening Guide update
Hi, I was informed today that there is a behavior in the 5.1 through 5.5 Update 1 Hardening Guides that is incorrectly documented. The two affected guidelines are: ESXi.enable-lockdown-mode...
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Profiling OLTP performance on Virtualized SQL 2014 with All Flash Arrays
TPC-C Benchmark is an on-line transaction processing (OLTP). (TPCC Main site) TPC-C uses a mix of five concurrent transactions of different types and complexity. The database is comprised of nine...
View ArticleDon’t miss what your peers are saying about building a Software-Defined Data...
Ever wonder how you can: Forecast storage needs for the next 1-3 years Deploy a cost-effective storage tier for VDI environments Monitor compute and reduce mean time to resolution Virtualize and...
View ArticleSDDC Reference Architecture
I’m pleased to announce the first in a series of reference architectures is now available. This reference architecture showcases the integrations between VMware vCloud® Suite Enterprise, VMware NSX for...
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Virtualized Exchange 2013 IO performance validation with All Flash Arrays
Microsoft Exchange is a very common critical application managed by enterprises. Exchange 2013 has brought forth many changes to the performance and IO profile of its infrastructure. Exchange Server...
View ArticleIntroducing VMware vSphere Remote Office Branch Office Editions
At VMworld 2014 in San Francisco, we introduced VMware vSphere Remote Office Branch Office Standard and Advanced editions. These exciting offerings will allow us to provide new and existing customers...
View ArticleVirtual SAN 5.5 Validation Guide
Enabling Virtual SAN, if the environment is configured and ready, is an easy click of the mouse. If the environment is not ready however, the task of troubleshooting a new product, can easily become...
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VMware Feature Walkthrough: Step-by-Step VMware How-to’s
If you are like me, VMworld 2014 in San Francisco left my brain on overload. With so many new product and services announcements, plus breakout sessions filled with technical information and demos in...
View ArticleSQL Server on vSphere Workshop
by Don Sullivan, Product Line Marketing Manager, Business Critical Applications – vSphere There has been a dramatic increase of virtualized infrastructure being used for production-level business...
View ArticlevCenter Server 5.5 Update 2 Released
Today VMware released Update 2 of its vSphere management solution, vCenter Server. In this release there are updates to the supported database versions and many resolved known issues. What’s New...
View ArticlevSphere 5.5 Update 2 is GA, available for download
What’s new in this release? Support for hosts with 6TB of RAM – vSphere 5.5 Update 2 starts to support hosts with 6TB of RAM. VMware vShield Endpoint Thin Agent as VMware Tools Guest Introspection...
View ArticleAnnouncing availability of VMware vSphere Remote Office Branch Office...
Earlier this month at VMworld 2014 in San Francisco, VMware introduced the VMware vSphere Remote Office Branch Office Standard and Advanced Editions. Today, we are excited to announce the availability...
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Using vSphere 5.5U2 Client to edit the settings of virtual machines of...
With vSphere 5.5 Update 2, you have the ability to edit a Virtual Hardware 10 VM using the vSphere Client (a.k.a C# or thick client). You are able to edit hardware version 9 and 10 VMs, but only on the...
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VMware Virtual SAN: Performance with Microsoft Exchange Server
As we continue to showcase the value and capabilities of Virtual SAN, I believe it is crucial to provide access to the information VMware’s performance engineering team has gathered around business...
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Site Recovery Manager 5.8 is now GA – What’s new?
Yesterday VMware announced the GA of Site Recovery Manager 5.8. There are a number of great additions and improvements and I’m going to cover them here briefly. Full Web Client Integration The most...
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VMware Virtual SAN Performance Testing – Part I
As people begin to assess, design, build, and deploy VMware Virtual SAN based solutions for the first time, there is great curiosity in understanding the performance expectations to have, and results...
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Three Keys to Fast, Affordable IT in an Always-On World
In today’s data centers, three trends drive the need for new approaches to the management of IT systems: the expectation for always-on IT services, rapidly growing infrastructure, and limited IT...
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