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vSphere Integrated Containers – Technology Walkthrough
vSphere Integrated Containers (VIC) combines the agility and application portability of Docker Linux containers with the industry-leading virtual infrastructure platform, offering hardware isolation...
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Architecting Virtual SAP HANA Using VMware Virtual Volumes And Hitachi Storage
VMWorld Recap: SAP HANA and VMware Virtual Volumes This is a follow up to my earlier VMWorld blog; “Virtualizing SAP HANA Databases Greater Than-1TB On vSphere-5-5”, where I discussed SAP...
View ArticleOracle Open World 2015 Collateral – Capstone and Beyond
VMware is sponsoring Oracle Open World in San Francisco at the Mosconi Center starting Oct 26th. The following collateral will be of interest to all those attending OOW as well as any 2015-16 Oracle...
View ArticleWhat is vCenter Server Watchdog?
If you’ve done any research into the high-availability options available for vCenter Server 6.0, hopefully you have had a chance to read the VMware vCenter Server 6.0 Availability Guide written in...
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Updating to VMware Tools 10 – Must Read
In September we announced that VMware Tools 10.0.0 Released and that VMware is now shipping VMware tools outside of the vSphere releases. Since then, we have received a lot of feedback from the...
View ArticleVirtual Volumes: A game changer for operations of virtualized business...
This is first of a series of posts on deploying vSphere Virtual Volumes for Tier 1 Business Critical Databases. Although this article is written with a focus on Oracle databases, much of this...
View ArticleDatabase-as-a-Service (DBaaS): Reference Architecture with VMware and Tintri
Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) is a real-world example of cloud computing that delivers databases and database applications through self-service portals without IT intervention. Providing multiple...
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Virtual Volumes for Database Backup and Recovery
In the first part of this series we provided a high level view of the benefits of using Virtual Volumes enabled storage for database operations. In this post, we will examine in more detail how Virtual...
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VMware Tools Lifecycle: Why Tools Can Drive You Crazy (and How to Avoid it!)
There has been a lot of buzz around vSphere Lifecycle since VMworld. My last few blog posts on VMware Tools have had a tremendous amount of traffic, so I decided to continue with the theme and give you...
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Updating vCenter Server Appliance 6.0 to Update 1
Earlier this month, we released vSphere 6.0 Update 1. In this update we introduced some awesome new features for vCenter Server. Let’s take a look at some of these just below: Installation and Upgrade...
View ArticleConfiguring NSX-v 6.2 as a Load Balancer for the vSphere Platform Services...
VMware released NSX-v (NSX for vSphere) 6.2 back on August 20, 2015. With its release the NSX team introduced support to use NSX-v as a load balancer for the vSphere Platform Services Controller (PSC)...
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vCPU to pCPU Ratios – Are they still relevant?
One question I’m commonly asked (aka weekly if not daily) is what are the perfect pCPU to vCPU ratios that I should plan for, and operate to, for maximum performance. I wanted to document my...
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Virtualizing Big Data at VMware IT – Starting Out at Small Scale
The Hadoop-based system running on vSphere that is described here was architected by Rajit Saha, (who provided the material for this blog) and a team from VMware’s IT department. This article describes...
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Significant Performance Improvements Come to the vSphere Web Client 5.5 Update 3
Over the course of the previous few years we’ve seen a steady improvement in the vSphere Web Client. VMware has been listening to the feedback coming in from our field, partners, and customers. And the...
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SDDC Security Operations class from VMware Education
Hey everyone! I know, it’s been a while since I blogged. It’s been an insanely busy time here at VMware, especially for vSphere security. VMworld US and Europe vSphere security sessions were very...
View ArticleEight Myths about Virtualizing Hadoop Dispelled
This article takes eight common misperceptions about virtualizing Hadoop and explains why they are errors in people’s understanding. The short explanations given should serve to clear up the...
View ArticleWhat’s New in vSphere Big Data Extensions Version 2.3?
Big Data Extensions enables the rapid deployment of Hadoop clusters on a VMware vSphere virtual platform. This new BDE 2.3 release provides the following new features and enhancements. Enhancements for...
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Crash consistent backups and database cloning with Virtual Volumes
In the first part of this series we provided a high level view of the benefits of using Virtual Volumes enabled storage for database operations. In the second part of this series we examined in more...
View ArticleSSLv3 Protocol Disabled by Default in vSphere 5.5 Update 3b
Background Why has the SSLv3 protocol been disabled by default in vSphere 5.5 Update 3b? Across the industry, enterprise software products and solutions are dropping use of and support for the SSLv3...
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Updating to VMware Tools 10 – Must Read
In September we announced that VMware Tools 10.0.0 Released and that VMware is now shipping VMware tools outside of the vSphere releases. Since then, we have received a lot of feedback from the...
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