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Using Reverse Web Proxy with Auto Deploy
Kyle Gleed, Sr. Technical Marketing Manager, VMware In the vSphere Installation and Setup guide on page 98 under the section heading "Auto Deploy Load Management Best Practices" it mentions using...
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NFS & iSCSI Best Practices webinar for vSphere 5 with EMC Isilon & VMware
James Walkenhorst (Virtualization Solutions Architect at EMC Isilon) & I will be delivering a free webinar next week, discussing some of the best practices around implementing iSCSI & NFS on...
View ArticleTechnical Marketing Group Update - Week 03
Technical Marketing Update 2012 - Week 03: Blogs: EMC implements VAAI NAS for their VNX (Cormac Hogan) http://bit.ly/xapxXj vCloud Director Report 1.0.0 (William Lam) http://bit.ly/yasEO0 Enabling...
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RAID10 requirement for vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA) relaxed!
For those of you considering the vSphere Storage Appliance as a shared storage solution, I bring you a piece of very good news. The RAID10 configuration requirement on the hosts has now been relaxed....
View ArticleNew vCLI Video from VMware Tech Pubs
Kyle Gleed, Sr. Technical Marketing Manager VMware Tech Pubs just released another great video, this one provides an overview of the vCLI in vSphere 5.0: You can use the vCLI command set to manage ESXi...
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Attending VMware Partner Exchange 2012? Some vCenter Server related sessions...
This years Partner Exchange is nearly upon us and browsing the content catalogue I have listed a selection of vCenter Server related session that I would highly recommend attending. (1426) Making...
View ArticleAre you a vSphere PowerCLI fan? Check out our 5.0.1 release
If so, life just got better for you. Make sure to take a look a thte new 5.0.1 PowerCLI release we announced today. PowerCLI as you know has been one of the popular utilities to automate vSphere...
View ArticleTechnical Marketing Update 2012 - Week 04
By Duncan Epping, Principal Architect, VMware. Currently multiple white papers are going through formatting / editing and these will be published in the upcoming weeks. Hopefully I can provide an...
View ArticleDo you use the vSphere Hypervisor (no cost ESXi)? We want to hear from you!
VMware is collecting feedback this week on the topic of the vSphere Hypervisor (no cost ESXi that you download at VMware.com). If you use or have evaluated the product please take our short survey...
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Troubleshooting Auto Deploy Rules
by Kyle Gleed, Sr. Technical Marketing Manager, VMware A common problem I come across when helping customers implement Auto Deploy is they PXE boot their hosts and instead of seeing the Auto Deploy...
View ArticleHaving a performance problem hard to resolve? – Have you checked your host...
Power Saving turned on in the server BIOS has been the cause of many performance issues reported in vSphere 4.1. In fact it has been the #1 resolution to performance problems reported in the past few...
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vCloud Director Certification
by Tom Stephens, Senior Technical Marketing Architect, VMware Recently, the question came up if VMware was planning to develop a certification around vCloud Director. Yes, we are indeed! As...
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vCD Support for vCenter Foundation
by Tom Stephens, Senior Technical Marketing Architect, VMware I recently saw a question asking if vCloud Director was supported with vCenter Foundation. This version is intended for use in...
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What could be writing to a VMFS when no Virtual Machines are running?
[Updated with vSphere HA clarifications] This was an interesting question that came my way recently. One of our storage partners wanted to ensure that a VMFS volume was completely quiesced (no...
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Something I didn't known about VMFS sub-blocks
Well, there is probably quite a lot I don't know about VMFS sub-blocks to be honest, but I recently learnt something new about sub-blocks on VMFS which I thought I already understood, but clearly...
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Configuration Settings for ALUA Devices
Posted by Cormac HoganTechnical Marketing Manager (Storage) If you've got an ALUA array, you've probably wondered what all those obscure configration settings mean in the esxcli device listing. I...
View ArticleTechnical Marketing Update 2012 - Week 05
By Duncan Epping, Principal Architect, VMware. As promised last week an update that includes new white papers. First one is by Venky Deshpande and is about VDS best practices, highly recommend read....
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Migrating RDMs, and a question for RDM Users.
Posted by Cormac HoganTechnical Marketing Manager (Storage) On a number of occasions recently, I had to investigate what happened to an Raw Device Mapping (RDM) when: The VM to which the RDM was...
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Introduction to the vSphere API Part 1
By William Lam, Sr. Technical Marketing Engineer In our previous article, we quickly looked at the differences between an API and an SDK. In this article, we will take a look at a high level summary of...
View ArticleNetworking Blog site changes and VDS best practices paper available for download
Recently, there were some changes made to VMware blog site. In that process we have moved the networking blog from its old site blogs.vmware.com/networking to the new site...
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