VCDX #181 Marc Huppert

Month: July 2016

Lab test: vSphere Fault Tolerance performance…

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Lab test: vSphere Fault Tolerance performance impact

Lab test: vSphere Fault Tolerance performance…

Triggered by some feedback on the VMware reddit channel, I was wondering what is holding us back in adopting the vSphere Fault Tolerance (FT) feature. Comments on Reddit stated that although the increased availability is desirable, the performance impact is holding them back to actually use it in production environments. Use cases for FT could be, The post Lab test: vSphere Fault Tolerance performance impact appeared first on Cloudfix .

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VSAN Upgrading from 6.1 to 6.2 Hybrid to All…

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VSAN Upgrading from 6.1 to 6.2 Hybrid to All Flash – Part 1

VSAN Upgrading from 6.1 to 6.2 Hybrid to All…

When VSAN 6.2 was released earlier this year it came with new and enhanced features and depending on what version you where running you might not have been able to take advantage of them all right away. Across all versions, Software Checksum was added with Advanced and Enterprise versions getting VSANs implementation of Erasure Coding (RAID 5/6) with Deduplication and Compression available for the All Flash version and QOS IOPS The post VSAN Upgrading from 6.1 to 6.2 Hybrid to All Flash –…Read More

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VMware’s NSX, VSAN Sales Surge In Q2, CEO…

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VMware’s NSX, VSAN Sales Surge In Q2, CEO Gelsinger Bullish On Dell-EMC Deal Impact

VMware’s NSX, VSAN Sales Surge In Q2, CEO…

VMware is seeing strong momentum as sales of its software-defined data center technologies overtake sales of older computing-based technologies such as ESX and vSphere, and as sales through Dell and non-Dell OEMs continue to grow.

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Sample dashboards to monitor NSX Load Balancers

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Sample dashboards to monitor NSX Load Balancers

Sample dashboards to monitor NSX Load Balancers

vRealize Operations NSX for vSphere v3.0 management pack has 4 “out-of-the-box” dashboards. In this blog, I will show you how to create 2 dashboards to monitor Load Balance Services. You can certainly expand the idea to monitor any service hosted by NSX Edge). I will provide the files, so you can just import the XML file. So, let’s get started.

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VMworld 2016 Schedule Builder launches 7/19!

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VMworld 2016 Schedule Builder launches 7/19!

VMworld 2016 Schedule Builder launches 7/19!

The goal of the VMworld agenda is to maximize customer and partner success through an educational schedule of breakouts, labs, demonstrations, and discussions. It is the number-one reason attendees come to VMworld. The Schedule Builder allows you to create your personal schedule at VMworld by pre-enrolling in your sessions of choice.

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My top 15 VMworld sessions for 2016

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“My top 15 VMworld sessions for 2016” via Yellow Bricks

My top 15 VMworld sessions for 2016

Every year I post a list of my top VMworld sessions. It is always challenging to go through the list, I figured I would do it straight before the Schedule Builder goes online as that gives people at least the opportunity to register them. I am going to be strict again this year, 15 sessions and in random order. These are the sessions I would sign up for myself, unfortunately as a VMware employee you can’t pre-register for sessions, but I will to try to sneak in. Note that I selected these sessions because I expect them to have deep tech info and have great speakers. There will be many awesome sessions missing I am sure, but than again that is the result of trying to stick to 15. Here we go:

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Now Available: iOS 10 & macOS Sierra Public Betas

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Now Available: iOS 10 & macOS Sierra Public Betas

Now Available: iOS 10 & macOS Sierra Public Betas

Last week, Apple released public betas of its highly anticipated operating system (OS) updates: iOS 10 and macOS Sierra. Available through the Apple Beta Software Program, each public beta comes with a built-in Feedback Assistant to provide feedback to Apple. VMware AirWatch is working to support the new features in Apple iOS 10 and macOS […]

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Let’s Virtualize: Back to Basics – Part 11…

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Let’s Virtualize: Back to Basics – Part 11 Distributed Switches

Let’s Virtualize: Back to Basics – Part 11…

In our couple of blog post related to Back to Basics Series we discussed about Virtual Machine Files (Part1), Standard Switches (Part2), vCenter Server (Part 3),Templates (Part4) vApp (Part 5), Migration (Part 6),Cloning (Part 7), Host Profiles (Part 8), Virtual VolumesAKA VVOL’s (Part 9) Fault Tolerance (Part10) and we also discussed about the various tasks related to building Home Lab Part1, Part 2, Part 3,Part 4 and Part 5.

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How To : Customize the vSphere Login UI 6.0 U2…

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How To : Customize the vSphere Login UI 6.0 U2 whenever you want (via VMwareMinds)

How To : Customize the vSphere Login UI 6.0 U2…

Hello All, Today I am sharing info for how to change the Login UI of your vCenter 6.0 U2. As this info is Already shared by William Lam in his blog. Thanks to him for introducing such wonderful inf…Read More

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Free Elearning: Hyper-Converged Infrastructure…

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Free Elearning: Hyper-Converged Infrastructure and VMware Software-defined Storage Fundamentals

Free Elearning: Hyper-Converged Infrastructure…

This free, self-paced eLearning course overviews Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) and VMware software-defined storage (SDS…Read More

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Container Volumes in VIC v0.4.0

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Container Volumes in VIC v0.4.0–cormachogan

Container Volumes in VIC v0.4.0

I mentioned yesterday that VMware made vSphere Integrated Containers (VIC) v0.4.0 available. Included in this version is support for container volumes. Now, as mentioned yesterday, VIC is still a work in progress, and not everything has yet been implemented.

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Free e-learning course – VMware vRealize…

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Free e-learning course – VMware vRealize Operations Manager Fundamentals [V6.2]

Free e-learning course – VMware vRealize…

This free e-learning course demonstrates how VMware vRealize Operations Manager delivers intelligent operations management from applications to infrastructure across physical, virtual, and cloud environments. After completing the program, you should be able to: Explain how an analytics-based operational process addresses the challenges of IT operations Name the three main use cases for intelligent operations Describe how the architecture of vRealize Operations Manager supports scalability,…Read More

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New VMware Virtual SAN and Cohesity…

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New VMware Virtual SAN and Cohesity DataPlatform White Paper — Punching Clouds

New VMware Virtual SAN and Cohesity…

Hot off of the press!: New VMware Virtual SAN and Cohesity white paper. I got the opportunity to collaborate with my pals Gaetan Castelein and Sai Mukundan from Cohesity and co-author a white paper based on Virtual SAN and Cohesity DataPlaform. Download it and learn about the undeniable cost effective value hyper-convergence delivers to the modernization of […] ( Read more… ) The post New VMware Virtual SAN and Cohesity DataPlatform White Paper appeared…Read More

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Organizing your VMware vRealize Operations…

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Organizing your VMware vRealize Operations Environment with Custom Groups

Organizing your VMware vRealize Operations…

Alain Geenrits, Blue Medora In a previous blog post I showed you how you can create your own custom applications groups in VMware vRealize Operations (vROps) to monitor your resources at different tiers. When you manage a large infrastructure, the number of objects and corresponding metrics in vROps will grow rapidly. Think of The post Organizing your VMware vRealize Operations Environment with Custom Groups appeared first on VMware Cloud Management .

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