VCDX #181 Marc Huppert

Month: February 2016

vSphere Data Protection 6.1 Part 1

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vSphere Data Protection 6.1 Part 1

vSphere Data Protection 6.1 Part 1

It is available as a Virtual Appliance.Minimum requirement:RAM – 4GBvCPU- 4 running @ 2GHzDisk Space: 873GBProvides disk based back up for virtual machines.It is based on the industry-leading EMC® Avamar® deduplication backup and recovery software. A maximum of 20 vSphere Data Protection appliances can be deployed per vCenter Server.As many as eight external proxies (virtual appliances) can be deployed per vSphere Data Protection virtual appliance. vSphere Data Protection supports as much as…Read More

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EMC vVNX (Software Defined Storage)

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EMC vVNX (Software Defined Storage)

EMC vVNX (Software Defined Storage)

DEPLOYMENT & CONFIGURATIONVirtual VNX (vVNX) is a software stack that provides many VNX features. It allows VNXe software to be available as a downloadable virtual storage appliance (VSA) for use with a VMware ESX or ESXi hypervisor. Most of the folks who wants to test the new feature of VMware for the Software Defined Storage i.e VVOL like most of us have came across so far can test with the help of this solution by EMC ie. VVols technical preview for vVNX from their website.It is available…Read More

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vDCA550-Objective 2.2-5-Configure NetFlow

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vDCA550-Objective 2.2-5-Configure NetFlow

vDCA550-Objective 2.2-5-Configure NetFlow

NetFlow is an industry standard for collecting and analyzing network data. It is a collection of related network packets traveling in sequence in the same direction, sharing specific characteristics, including […]

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VMware Homeserver – ESXi on 6th Gen Intel NUC

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VMware Homeserver – ESXi on 6th Gen Intel NUC

VMware Homeserver – ESXi on 6th Gen Intel NUC

Intels 6th Gen NUCs are out and it’s time to take a look on their capabilities as homeserver running VMware ESXi. NUCs are not officially supported by VMware but they arevery widespread in many homlabsor test environments. Theyaresmall, silent, transportable … Read more »

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Journey of HORIZON VIEW 6.0

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Journey of HORIZON VIEW 6.0

Journey of HORIZON VIEW 6.0

By 2007, the prototype connection broker was introduced to customers to help with the development, before it was given to the VMware product organization to productize it and turn it into a real product. The released product was called Virtual Desktop Manager 1.0 (VDM). The year 2007 was a busy year, and it also saw VMware acquire Propero for $25 million, to accelerate their connection broker development, leading to the VMworld announcement and release of VDM 2.0 in January 2008.After the…Read More

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Deploying Hardware-Accelerated Graphics with…

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Deploying Hardware-Accelerated Graphics with View Virtual Desktops in Horizon 6.2

Deploying Hardware-Accelerated Graphics with…

Engineers, designers, and scientists have traditionally relied on dedicated graphics workstations to perform the most demanding tasks, such as manipulating 3D models and visually analyzing large data sets. These standalone workstations carried high acquisition and maintenance costs, and they required the user to be present in the lab or office. In areas such as oil and gas, space exploration, aerospace, engineering, science, and manufacturing this meant that an organization’s individuals had…Read More

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