VMware CEO Says Dell’s Acquisition of EMC Will Have Positive Impact — eWeek
In recent TV interviews, CEO Pat Gelsinger says having Dell as the primary shareholder will help accelerate growth for the virtualization company.
PernixData Architect 1.1 and FVP version 3.5 are general available — Virtualisatieadvies
PernixData, the leader in analytics-driven flash storage, announced today the general availability (GA) of Architect version 1.1 and FVPversion 3.5, the premier platforms for infrastructure analytics and server-side storage acceleration.
VCAP-DCV Deploy Objective 4.2 — vPentathlon
In the following post we are going to discuss how we Implement and Manage Complex DRS solutions
Using the vSphere API to remotely generate ESXi performance support bundles — virtuallyGhetto
This is a follow-up post from my previous article on how to run a script using a vCenter Alarm action in the vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA). What I had demonstrated was using a pyvmomi (vSphere SDK for Python) script to be triggered automatically to generate a VMware Support Bundle for all ESXi hosts for a given vSphere Cluster. The one caveat that I had mentioned in the blog post was that the solution slightly differed from the original request which was to create an ESXi performance support bundle. However, the vSphere API only supports the creation of generic VMware Support Bundle which may not be as useful if you are only interested in collecting more granular performance stats for troubleshooting purposes.
Installing the new macOS 10.12 Sierra ‘Developer Preview’ on VMware Fusion 8
It’s that time of year again! With #WWDC2016 in full swing, Apple has graced us with an insider look at the next big OS release for the renamed macOS dubbed Sierra.
Hot off the Press: Two More Virtual SAN 6.2 Technical White Papers — Virtual Blocks
This white paper examines the performance of Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) applications with Virtual SAN 6.2. The OLTP applications, which model an online retail store and a brokerage house workload, involve a large number of client transactions. The performance of such workloads are crucial to businesses such as banks, airlines, and retailers. Overall, Virtual SAN 6.2 performs well and provides stable and consistent I/O capability to the two OLTP workloads. Furthermore, tests show that Virtual SAN 6.2’s space efficiency features provide substantial disk space savings and can significantly reduce customers’ storage costs per gigabyte (GB). Lastly, Virtual SAN 6.2 performs well during source failure with only a small drop during…Read More
Yet another ESXi pxe boot solution — Michael Ryom
Hopefully this isn’t just “yet another pxe boot solution” – It may not be as smart as puppet or chef, but hopefully you come to see that this is at least semi automated and a bit clever. So what sets this apart from so many other pxe solution/kickstart.
VxRail 3.5 aka the “Ghent” June update is now GA!
All – VxRail continues to cook! The 3.5 release came out on June 9th, and is getting fast pickup.
NSX – ESG ECMP and remembering to disable the local firewall! — vCrooky
I ran into a bit of a problem with an NSX deployment I was recently working on… sadly human error caused the issue but as the old saying goes “better to find problems during testing than in production” (I just made that up), or “DCYCJ” (Double Check Your Config James).
vCenter Server 6.0 Upgrade – Log on as a Service error
It’s been a while since I upgraded an old version of vCenter Server to 6.0 and I totally forgot about the error that pops up about NT Service\All Services not having Log on as a Service rights….. I was actually going to blog about this when I encountered the error at the start of the year, but it totally slipped my mind…. I think I need to start keeping a list of things I have to blog about (old age)!
Oracle Databases on VMware Best Practices Guide
As of May 2016 a new Oracle Databases on VMware Best Practices Guide is now available. This is a must read for anyone deploying Business Critical Applications on vSphere 6. The lessons learned in this best practice guide will apply to any business Critical Applications deployed on VMware.
VCAP-DCV Deploy Objective 3.4 — vPentathlon
In this post we will continue to discuss VMware networking and now it time for troubleshoot a vSphere 6.x network implementation
VCAP-DCV Deploy Objective 3.3 — vPentathlon
In this post we will continue to discuss VMware networking and now it time for scale a vSphere 6.x network implementation
vSphere 6 Training and Certification
VMware vSphere is the foundation of the Software-Defined Data Center. The new vSphere 6 extends your ability to virtualize scale-up and scale-out applications, redefine availability, and simplify your virtual data center. Gain more value from your investment with vSphere 6 training from VMware Education Services.
Virtualization The Future: VSAN 6.2 Configuration Maximums
VSAN 6.2 Configuration Maximums
VSAN 6.2 Design Thoughts Mindmap – Updated
I have just finished teaching two weeks of the VSAN 6.2 ICM. It it great technology and has just been updated to the latest version of the product.
Can I select VSAN as my placeholder datastore with SRM? — Yellow Bricks
I received a question today about SRM, vSphere Replication and VSAN. The current documentation for SRM says the following:
VMware Horizon Service Installer for NSX – Building Up a Secured Desktop Infrastructure
In an earlier blog, A Deep Dive into VMware Horizon 6 with NSX, Tristan Todd, a VMware alumnus, introduced some VMware technologies that offer wide-ranging capabilities and benefits to users, administrators, and business leaders through securing desktop virtualization with VMware NSX and Horizon 6.
Virtual Volumes On Nimble OS 3 — Virtual Blocks
I recently had the opportunity to test drive Virtual Volumes on Nimble Storage. This was my first time ever touching a Nimble Storage array, and if I had to summarize the experience in one word it would be simplicity. The array setup, VVol configuration, and eventually management of my VVols was extremely simple, highly available, and had some pretty differentiating functionality.
VMware vSphere CPU-Affinity NEW KB
The definition and understanding of the technology of what is often referred to as “CPU Pinning” or more precisely “CPU Affinity” has been both distorted and confused over the last decade. This new Knowledge Base Article serves to clarify those distortions and misunderstandings. This is particularly important now because the desire on the part of many customers and partners to create optimized sub-capacity architectures, often for reasons pertaining to 3rd party software licensing has never been stronger. CPU Affinity works as advertised which has always been the case and this article states that fact in the strongest possible terms.
