Business-critical application on #VMware vSphere6, VMware vSAN, VMware NSX
Business-critical applications need a virtualization platform that’s reliable and flexible while providing the high performance that users demand. The software-defined data center (SDDC) with VMware vSphere 6, all-flash VMware Virtual SAN, and VMware NSX can help you deliver strong performance for business-critical apps, and maximum uptime through workload mobility.
#VSAN 6.2 Part 12 – VSAN 6.1 to 6.2 Upgrade Steps
I’ve already written a few articles around this, notably on stretched cluster upgrades and on-disk format issues. In this post, I just wanted to run through the 3 distinct upgrade steps in a little more detail, and show you some useful commands that you can use to monitor the progress. In a nutshell, the steps are:
Top 20 #vCenter articles for March 2016
Here is our Top 20 vCenter articles list for March 2016. This list is ranked by the number of times a VMware Support Request was resolved by following the steps in a published Knowledge Base article.
VMware: Understand the Compute Layer in #vRealize Operations
Monitoring, understanding, and optimizing compute performance is a crucial aspect of any IT environment, and it becomes even more important with virtualization. VMware vRealize Operations (vROps) helps you realize the benefits of virtualization without sacrificing visibility into the compute layer. vROps also makes optimizations easy with performance trend analysis, health badges, project planning, and more.
Two Factor Authentication for vSphere – RSA SecurID – Part 2
Introduction In Part 1 of Two Factor Authentication for vSphere – RSA SecurID, we configured RSA Authentication Manager to get it ready for adding the PSC as an Authentication Manager agent. In this post, we’ll configure the Platform Services Controller (PSC) itself by uploading the sdconf.rec file and running the appropriate CLI commands to enable […] The post Two Factor Authentication for vSphere – RSA SecurID – Part 2 appeared first on VMware vSphere Blog .
#vCenter Server 6 Appliance fsck failed
A vCenter Server Appliance (vSphere 6.0 Update 1b) belonging to me was bounced and for some reason was unbootable. The trouble during the boot process begins with /dev/sda3 contains a file system with errors, check forced. At approximately 27% of the way through, the process terminates with fsck failed. Please repair manually and reboot.
My View 7 upgrade
Hi there, It is now time to upgrade my lab to Horizon 7. The info below will help you to do the same. Important note is that I am just doing the View 7 upgrade and not implementing anything else – like True SSO. That will perhaps come later. Like in my 6.2 upgrade I am not ready to start using the Access Point appliance – but still have the Windows based Security Server. The hardest thing of this upgrade – for me – was to find the bits. Life of a vExpert though. Lets get started!
Nominations for the 2016 Top #vBlog voting categories are now open!
Just like prior years in addition to the traditional top 50 voting I’m opening it up to allow voting in specific categories as well to help distinguish certain types of blogs. To do this I have created a form to allow you to nominate your blog or website for one of the categories that I have defined if your blog fits one or more of the categories, if it does not then don’t nominate it as all blogs on the vLaunchpad will automatically be included in the general top blog voting.
Announcing the #VMware App Volumes Backup Fling
It gives me great please to announce the first Fling that I have worked on. Over the last couple months Chris Halstead, Stephane Asselin and I have been working on the new App Volumes Backup Fling.
VMware Horizon 7.0: Instant Clones
With the release of Horizon 7, VMware has introduced Instant Clones (previously code-named Project Fargo) into the wild. Instant Clones utilize the vmFork technology within vSphere to fork a virtual desktop from a running virtual machine. Below are highlights about … Continue reading →
Top Ten things to consider when moving Business Critical Applications (BCA) to the Cloud (Part 2 of 3)
In the first part we looked at public, private and Hybrid Cloud and their characteristics. In this part we will look at the common characteristics of business critical applications. We will also look at how some of these characteristics relate to the different types of Cloud infrastructure. Common Characteristics of Business Critical Applications (BCA): Business critical […] The post Top Ten things to consider when moving Business Critical Applications (BCA) to the Cloud (Part 2 of 3)…Read More
Deprecated VMFS volume(s) found on the host. Please consider upgrading volume(s) to the latest version
Today while working in my Lab I was seeing following warning message on my Esxi host: Deprecated VMFS volume(s) found on the host. Please consider upgrading volume(s) to the latest version This error occurred just after I added a new … Continue reading →
Lookup service fails with the certificate error for external VMware solution like NSX Manager, VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager, VMware vSphere Replication or vSheild Manager
Some solutions, such as VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager, VMware vSphere Replication, or vSheild Manager are always installed on a different machine than the associated vCenter Server system or Platform Services Controller that manages the certificates for the solution.
[VIDEO] NSX Everywhere: Virtual Networking for All Platforms
VMware NSX manages any virtualized networking environment with speed, agility, and security. In this video, hear from VMware CTSO Guido Appenzeller and see NSX in action in real time.
Log Insight + Netflow = Awesome (via Michael Ryom)
This is just another awesome use case for Log Insight. I have setup the vSphere Distributed switch to send netflow to a netflow proxy which then sends them as syslog messages to Log Insight. The reason for this is that Log Insight can’t ingest netflow messages natively.
New: VMware User Environment Manager Configuration Templates
VMware has announced that they are starting to provide UEM Templates on a VMware community site. UEM Templates are basically preconfigured settings for certain apps so you don’t have to figure out which registry keys and files/folders you need to capture.
VMware CPU Co-Stop and SQL Server Performance (via Convergence of Data and Infrastructure)
Not too many people know about the intricacies of virtualization CPU scheduling and its impact on the performance of the VMs, so application owners out there – listen up! I’ve written about Ready Time (VMware ESXi) / Wait Time Per Dispatch (Microsoft Hyper-V) in the past, but a different challenge arises with VMs that have large vCPU count footprints. It’s called CPU Co-Stop, and it can devastate your application’s performance in a VM.
#VCAP-DCV Deploy Objective 1.2 – part 1
In this post we will discuss VMware core management infrastructure components. we going to look at installing PSC first and then do some repointing.
vCenter 6.0u1b to 6.0u2 Upgrade Error: VMware Syslog Component
I wanted to upgrade my 6.0u1b Windows vCenters to 6.0u2 to start off the QA process, but unfortunately I hit a 1603 error. The TSE I worked with saw a few errors from VMware Syslog Collector and some internal PRs. The following is what he saw in my logs: [crayon-56fea372e991b958353812/] If you go… Read More »
Remove Horizon View Desktops Pools and VMs stuck in delete state
A while back i had to manually clean up some Horizon View (version 6.2) Desktop pools that were stuck in the delete state. Reasons for this was failed attempts to delete Horizon View VDIs even though their corresponding vCenter Server VMs were successfully deleted. Below is a print screen from the Horizon View UI showing the state of the Horizon View Desktop pools.
