Announcing 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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vSphere Storage Policy Based Management Overview (part 1)
Welcome to the VMware vSphere Storage Policy Based Management (SPBM) two-part blog series where we will be exploring SPBM features, components, and the major role it plays in automating storage...
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Virtual SAN Troubleshooting: Multicast
Hello and welcome to the Virtual SAN Troubleshooting blog series. This series of articles is dedicated to and driven by requests from you our readers. Today we will be focusing upon one of our most...
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Virtual SAN Troubleshooting: Automating Multicast Configuration
Welcome to another episode of our Virtual SAN Troubleshooting series. In our last article we detailed guidelines and troubleshooting steps around the Virtual SAN networking requirement for layer 2...
View ArticleUptrend for Virtualized Oracle Deployments on VMware vSphere
In August 2014, Unisphere Research fielded a study among the members of the Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG) to examine the current state of Oracle database sites, including the key issues,...
View ArticleVMware Orchestrator Shellshock Patches Released
A few days ago there was an announcement on some security vulnerabilities potentially affecting Linux based machines (see here: VMware Security Advisory). Well, today we announced the availability of...
View ArticleSRM install error: Failed to Clear Inventory Service Registration
If you see this message during an SRM 5.8 upgrade, chances are you are doing what is a moderately rare type of an SRM install that has caused you some problems. The given scenario that will lead to...
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VMware Virtual SAN Performance Testing – Part II
In the first installment of the Virtual SAN Performance Testing series, we reviewed benchmarking performance using synthetic I/O generation tool Iometer, automated by the VMware I/O Analyzer appliance....
View ArticleEncrypted Data at Rest with vSphere Data Protection and EMC Data Domain
I recently received an inquiry about whether vSphere Data Protection (VDP) Advanced could send backup data to an EMC Data Domain appliance with encryption enabled. This scenario was easy to set up and...
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vSphere Replication to vCloud Air Disaster Recovery
With the release of vSphere Replication 5.8, it is now possible to replicate virtual machines from a vCenter Server environment to another vCenter Server environment and to vCloud Air Disaster...
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Patching the Shellshock Vulnerability in vSphere Replication 5.8
I am sure most of you have heard about the “Shellshock” vulnerability – if not, you can read about it here. Seeing that the vSphere Replication 5.8 virtual appliance is running Linux, a patch is...
View ArticleRegister now for Webinar to learn about Pivotal CF, based on Cloud Foundry...
Learn about how customers are rapidly adopting Pivotal CF on VMware, the enterprise Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) that enables customers to experience turnkey PaaS capabilities on familiar vSphere and...
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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vSphere PowerCLI 5.8 SPBM Walkthrough (Part 1): Introduction
Welcome to a new blog series for the all new vSphere PowerCLI 5.8 Release 1. In this series we will be exploring the new vSphere PowerCLI cmdlets for vSphere Storage Policy Based Management (SPBM)....
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vSphere Storage Policy Based Management Overview (part 2)
Welcome to part 2 of the vSphere Storage Policy Based Management Overview. In our previous article, we looked at challenges with traditional storage provisioning models, the advantages of the...
View ArticleVMware Configuration Guide for Virtual SAN HCL Component Updates
The Virtual SAN Configuration Guide has been updated with new components. We recently certified 12 SSDs, updated 4 existing SSD certifications, and updated firmware information for 2 HDDs. Make sure to...
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Virtual SAN Backup with VDP – New White Paper
Hot off of the press: A new white paper that discusses backing up virtual machines running on VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN) using VMware vSphere Data Protection (VDP). These are the main topics that are...
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vSphere Replication Appliance Failure Prevention and Recovery
vSphere Replication is an excellent host-based, per-VM replication solution that is included with vSphere Essentials Plus Kit and higher editions. That’s right – if you have vSphere Essentials Plus or...
View ArticleIOUG Survey Webcast Replay Site
The permanent home for the IOUG “Oracle on vSphere” survey webcast is listed below along with the actual survey itself. The “Oracle on vSphere” VMware press book link is also listed. IOUG Survey...
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