Infographic – Walk Through of VMware Availability
Here’s a visualization we put together to help people understand the various offerings from VMware that can positively affect your levels of availability. Hope you like it! VMware-Availability...
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VMware Virtual SAN Operations: Replacing Disk Devices
In my previous Virtual SAN operations article, “VMware Virtual SAN Operations: Disk Group Management” I covered the configuration and management of the Virtual SAN disk groups, and in particular I...
View ArticleReference Architecture for building a VMware Software–Defined Datacenter
The latest in our series of reference architectures is now available. This is an update to the previous version which brings in additional products and covers the vCloud Suite 5.8 release. This...
View ArticleTips for a Successful VMware Virtual SAN Evaluation
One of the biggest advantages of Virtual SAN is that it is so easy to set up and use. Out of all the evaluation options available to them, many customers have realized that trying it out in their own...
View ArticlevCenter Server 5.5 Availability guide
It brings me great pleasure to announce the vCenter Server 5.5 Availability Guide is now available. With the End of Availability of vCenter Server Heartbeat we had many questions around what our...
View ArticleMySQL VM Backup with vSphere Data Protection
I often get questions regarding backup of a MySQL database server (VM) using vSphere Data Protection (VDP). VDP does not have an agent for MySQL, but you can of course perform an image-level...
View ArticleVMworld US 2014 in San Fransisco Panel Discussion “Applications on Oracle on...
Mike Adams and Don Sullivan conducted a panel discussion at VMworld in San Francisco in August which highlighted a group of very successful VMware customers. The panelists answered questions pertaining...
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Operationalizing VMware Virtual SAN: Automating vCenter Alarm Configuration...
Welcome to the next installment in our Operationalizing VMware Virtual SAN series. In our previous article we detailed “How to configure vCenter alarms for Virtual SAN”. In today’s article we will...
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VMware’s vSphere Big Data Extensions (BDE) achieves Hortonworks Operations...
Hortonworks announced on the 17th December 2014 that VMware’s Big Data Extensions tool for Hadoop on virtual machines is now both HDP Certified and Operations Ready. HDP is the Hortonworks Data...
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VMware Virtual SAN and ScaleIO : Fundamentally Two different approaches to...
There’ s a lot of buzz and excitement around Software-Defined Storage (SDS) and hyper-converged storage solutions. Particularly around VMware’s recently introduced product: VMware Virtual SAN. VMware...
View ArticlePartner Exchange 2015 – Best Practices for installing and upgrading vSphere...
If your attending Partner Exchange 2015 and are interested in planning installs and upgrades for the latest versions of vSphere and vSOM be sure and come check out my session, INF4268. We’re going to...
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Assess the Performance Impact of the Security Change in Transparent Page...
As VMware continues to use a “secure by default” policy, there are some up-coming security changes to the Transparent Page Sharing (TPS) memory mechanism you need to be aware of and should assess for...
View ArticlePerformance Unplugged: Demanding Applications
Welcome to a new video series I’ve titled “Performance Unplugged” In this video series, I’ll showcase a number of talented performance gurus and cover commonly asked questions and topics. Performance...
View ArticleTechnical Preview of CoreOS on vSphere 5.5
VMware is focused on bringing the value of containers to our customers and helping them streamline application delivery and portability in their virtualized infrastructure. CoreOS is a new, lightweight...
View ArticleNew Release: vCenter Server 5.5 Update 2d
Today VMware released an update to its vCenter Server management solution. vCenter Server 5.5 Update 2d | 27 JAN 2015 | Build 2442329 vCenter Server 5.5 Update 2d Installation Package | 27 JAN 2015 |...
View ArticleSAP HANA Dynamic Tiering and the VMware Software Defined Data Center
The latest release of SAP HANA has brought the concepts of multi-temperature data and lifecycle management to a new level. With SP09, SAP has addressed the size and cost constraints which may prohibit...
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Announcing vSphere 6: Virtualize Applications with Confidence
Today, VMware announces vSphere 6, the latest release of the industry-leading virtualization platform, and the first major release of the flagship product in more than three years (read the press...
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vSphere 6.0 Hardening Guide – Overview of coming changes
The vSphere Hardening Guide provides guidance on how to securely deploy VMware vSphere in a production environment. The vSphere Hardening Guide also serves as a foundation upon which regulatory...
View ArticlevSphere 6 – Clarifying the misinformation
With the Announcement of vSphere 6 this week there is a lot of information being published by various sources. Some of that information is based on old beta builds and is much different than what we’ll...
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vSphere Virtual Volumes
Today VMware announced the release of vSphere 6.0 and with this announcement comes the official release of vSphere Virtual Volumes. vSphere Virtual Volumes (VVOLs) is VMware’s new management &...
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