VCDX #181 Marc Huppert

Month: March 2016

VMware Virtual SAN: The Technology And Its Future

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VMware Virtual SAN: The Technology And Its Future

VMware Virtual SAN: The Technology And Its Future

As discussed in earlier posts, the latest version of Virtual SAN (v.6.2) announced on February 10, 2016 is the biggest release of the product since its debut in March 2014. The list of new features is impressive and makes Virtual SAN very competitive against the most sophisticated storage platforms in the market today. Indeed, with […] The post VMware Virtual SAN: The Technology And Its Future appeared first on VMware vSphere Blog .

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Flex Your Pods with vRealize Operations

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Flex Your Pods with vRealize Operations

Flex Your Pods with vRealize Operations

By: Jake Martin, Blue Medora With the introduction of FlexPod solutions, IT efficiency has increased dramatically. Not only does it cut down deployment time, but also administration time. While these improvements are extremely helpful to all IT departments, issues may still arise. Monitoring the individual systems within a FlexPod solution will help to maintain uptime […] The post Flex Your Pods with vRealize Operations appeared first on VMware Cloud Management .

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NSX Bytes: NSX-v 6.2.2 Released

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NSX Bytes: NSX-v 6.2.2 Released

NSX Bytes: NSX-v 6.2.2 Released

Last week VMware released version 6.2.2 of NSX-v. The 6.2.2 release is mainly aimed at patching a security hole in the glibc libraries as well as removing a constraint with the DHCP Pool setup allowing .local domains in the config and improving the user experience when configuring the Distributed Firewall. Once following the standard NSX Upgrade Process you will see NSX The post NSX Bytes: NSX-v 6.2.2 Released appeared first on VIRTUALIZATION IS LIFE! .

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7 Reasons VMware Virtual SAN Is Radically Simple

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7 Reasons VMware Virtual SAN Is Radically Simple

7 Reasons VMware Virtual SAN Is Radically Simple

It is often that we hear technology solutions described as “revolutionary”, “incredible”, or “game-changing” and that list of adjectives could certainly go on. In some cases, those descriptions are fairly accurate while at other times, they tend to be a bit overstated. We here at VMware often use the term “radically simple” to describe Virtual SAN and I believe this flat out hits the nail on the head. Since the inception of Virtual SAN a couple of years ago, one of the main objectives has been to keep the management of Virtual SAN and the VMs running on Virtual SAN as simple as possible and, in my opinion, we have not only met that goal, but far exceeded it. Let’s look at seven examples.

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How to recreate missing VMDK file

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How to recreate missing VMDK file

How to recreate missing VMDK file

Recently when I was working, I came across an issue wherein I was not able to perform svMotion from one datastore to another. I then realised that the issue was with the missing vmdk file. All of you must be aware that the virtual disk has two components associated with it. One is the descriptor […] The post How to recreate missing VMDK file appeared first on Enterprise Daddy.

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Log Insight 3.3 Licensing

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Log Insight 3.3 Licensing

Log Insight 3.3 Licensing

Log Insight 3.3 has been released, if you haven’t seen all the new and awesome stuff in there, go check it out the release notes here and the what’s new blog post over at blogs.vmware.com… [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]

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Achieving Micro segmentation with Log Insight

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Achieving Micro segmentation with Log Insight

Achieving Micro segmentation with Log Insight

The other week I presented at both Melbourne and Sydney VMware User Group conferences. This was a one day conference that consists of vendors, community, and partner presentation. The focus is on technical content for users by users. I submitted a presentation on Log Insight and NSX which was accepted. The fact is that most … Continue reading “Achieving Micro segmentation with Log Insight”

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An Overview of Blue Medora’s “Oracle on VMware”…

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An Overview of Blue Medora’s “Oracle on VMware” Solutions! (via vXpress)

An Overview of Blue Medora’s “Oracle on VMware”…

More and more of Blue Medora’s customers are choosing to run their Oracle workloads on VMware. This choice comes with spectacular benefits such as server consolidation and licensing savings, as well as new challenges. One of the biggest challenges is effectively monitoring the Oracle workloads in context of the underlying VMware layers. Blue Medora has created solutions to address this specific pain point of virtualization, which helps you keep your Oracle environments running smoothly.

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vSphere 6 esxtop troubleshooting poster

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vSphere 6 esxtop troubleshooting poster

vSphere 6 esxtop troubleshooting poster

The VMware esxtop tool provides a real-time view (updated every five seconds, by default) of ESXi Server worlds. The term world refers to processes running on the VMkernel. Andreas Lesslhumer over at running-system.com has released a great vSphere 6 toubleshooting resource, it’s a poster shwoing all the esxtop information and their best practice values. You can get your copy here . ]]>

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Important KB updates for current NSX for…

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Important KB updates for current NSX for vSphere users

Important KB updates for current NSX for…

Our NSX team would like all of our customers to know about important KB updates for current NSX for vSphere issues. Here’s what’s new and trending- Recommended minimum version for VMware NSX for vSphere with Guest Introspection Driver, ESXi and vCenter server (KB 2144295) NSX for vSphere 6.2.2​ NEW!See also the minimum recommended version table […] The post Important KB updates for current NSX for vSphere users appeared first on Support Insider.

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Adding custom VSAN BIOS splash screen to the…

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Adding custom VSAN BIOS splash screen to the Intel NUC

Adding custom VSAN BIOS splash screen to the…

One of the last things I wanted to look into after setting up my new VSAN 6.2 home lab on the new 6th Gen Intel NUC was to add a custom BIOS splash screen giving my system a personal touch. Updating the BIOS splash screen would require flashing the BIOS itself which gave me some concerns after hearing about the BIOS v33 issue […]

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VMware Certification Program Simplified Exam…

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VMware Certification Program Simplified Exam Registration Process – New Annoucement

VMware Certification Program Simplified Exam…

VMware and Pearson VUE have simplified the certification exam registration process. As of March 5, 2016 you will find that the exam registration process is a seamless experience when you’re logged into your VMware myLearn account.

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VCP6-DTM Objective 3.4 – Build and Customize…

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VCP6-DTM Objective 3.4 – Build and Customize Desktop Images

VCP6-DTM Objective 3.4 – Build and Customize…

This lesson will teach us some tweaks on optimization of desktop images. VCP6-DTM Objective 3.4 – Build and Customize Desktop Images . VMware has an excellent utility (recently updated to support Windows 10) called VMware OS Optimization Utility . The tool can Analyze/Optimize locally, remote Analyze (not optimize). Has optimization history and rollback. It also can manage templates for different OS (Windows 7, W8.x, Windows Server 2008-2012).

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VCAP-DCV Deploy – Study Guide Series

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VCAP-DCV Deploy – Study Guide Series

VCAP-DCV Deploy – Study Guide Series

Since I hold a VCAP-DCD for 5.5, and want to upgrade to the VCIX-DCV 6, I have to study and take the VCAP-DCV Deploy test. Thankfully, VMware has made the process easy – I don’t have to upgrade the VCAP-DCD first to 6.0, as it will count towards my VCIX! So, in order to assist […] The post VCAP-DCV Deploy – Study Guide Series appeared first on Tim’s IT Blog .

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Virtual SAN Deployments Over L2/L3 Networks

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Virtual SAN Deployments Over L2/L3 Networks

Virtual SAN Deployments Over L2/L3 Networks

A new VMware Virtual SAN networking paper is now available. This paper focuses on the physical network and vSphere related technologies that are required to deploy Virtual SAN across Layer 2 and Layer 3 topologies.

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Hybrid vs All-flash VSAN, are we really getting…

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Hybrid vs All-flash VSAN, are we really getting close? (via Yellow Bricks)

Hybrid vs All-flash VSAN, are we really getting…

For the last 12 months people have been saying that all-flash and hybrid configurations are getting really close in terms of pricing. During the many conversations I have had with customers it became clear that this is not always the case when they requested quotes from server vendors and I wondered why. I figured I would go through the exercise myself to see how close we actually are and to what we are getting close.

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The future of the ESXi Embedded Host Client

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The future of the ESXi Embedded Host Client (via Virtually Ghetto)

The future of the ESXi Embedded Host Client

As many of you know, the ESXi Embedded Host Client project is something that is very near and dear to my heart. I have always felt that we needed a simple web interface that customers can just point their web browser to an ESXi host after a new installation and be able to quickly get started. One […]

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VMware vCenter Storage Monitoring Service &…

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VMware vCenter Storage Monitoring Service & Auto Deploy plug-in failed after upgrade to vSphere 6.0

VMware vCenter Storage Monitoring Service &…

Yesterday I did an upgrade of my vCenter Server Appliance 5.5 U3 to 6.0 U1. This was the first step to update my lab infrastructure to vSphere 6.0.A bit late, but better late than never. The update of the VCSA itself went smooth. No problems with certificates, hosts, VMs or PernixData FVP. But then, I […] Advertise here with BSA

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Using PowerCLI to Install Host VIBs

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Using PowerCLI to Install Host VIBs

Using PowerCLI to Install Host VIBs

So currently Cisco has an issue with installing their ENIC and FNIC VIBs through Update Manager for ESXi 6.x. Until that is resolved I need to manually push out patches to these hosts. Obviously I do not want to do this manually, so I will be utilizing PowerCLI to accomplish this task.

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