VMware vSAN 6.5 Licensing Guide
This guide explains the v SAN licensing editions, discusses some v SAN configuration options at a high level, and provides a number of examples to further illustrate potential licensing scenarios
Connecting a VPN between AWS and VMware NSX – VMGuru
Amazon Web Services has a few ways of giving you connectivity: internet, Direct Connect (a physical line) and VPN. While AWS has a ton of examples for firewall/VPN vendors, there is none for connecting with NSX. I needed to connect a NSX network with AWS for a proof of concept and had to figure out how to configure AWS and what settings to use on the NSX Edge VPN. Behold, the fruits of my labor!
vSphere visibility for Network Team – virtual-red-dot.info
This post continues from the Operationalize Your World post. Do read it first so you get the context.
Updates to VMDK partitions & disk resizing in VCSA 6.5 – virtuallyGhetto
Similiar to the vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) 6.0 release, the new VCSA 6.5 is also composed of multiple virtual machine disks (VMDKs).
An update on how to retrieve useful information from a vSphere login? – virtuallyGhetto
There was an internal Socialcast question today in which the answer could be found in my how to identify the origin of a vSphere login article.
vExpert 2017 Applications are Now Open! – VMTN Blog
Applications for the 2017 vExpert program are now open. Applications will be accepted until December 16th at midnight PDT. The vExpert 2017 announcement will be on February 8th 2016. Current 2016 vExperts need to apply through the fastrack application only.
Learning vSphere 6.5-Part-5-Installing vCenter Server on Windows – Virtual Reality
Till now in this series we have discussed a lot of theory about vCenter Server/VCSA, deployment type etc and also we looked into system requirements for vCenter Server and PSC installation. Now its lab time where we will see the installation/configuration of the components.
Learning vSphere 6.5-Part-3-vCenter Server and PSC Deployment Types – Virtual Reality
In last post of this series we had an overview of VCSA and touched a little bit on what are the new features that are included in VCSA v6.5.
VCAP6-NV (3V0-643) Study Guide – Part 15. Role Based Access Control – vzealand.com
This is part 15 of 20+ blogs I am writing covering the exam prep guide for the VMware Certified Advanced Professional 6 – Network Virtualisation Deployment (3V0-643) VCAP6-NV certification.
Understanding I/O – What about IOPS, Throughput, Latency and I/O Size -via virtualguido
This blog article is about one of my most favourite topics with just two letters: I/O. Why? Because really everything around virtualization and storage is about how I/O works and there is not much fun in life without Input/Output.
Virtual Machine Reset By HA-VMware Tools Heartbeat failure – Virtual Reality
Today while investigating one production issue, I came across an incident where a virtual machine restart was performed by HA.
How Windows 2016 licensing works with VMware (virtual) environments? – vEnthusiast
Are you confused with Windows 2016 licensing like me? Well it seems nothing have changed apart from minimum of 16 cores has to be complied.
Video – Virtual SAN 6.5 iSCSI support – ntpro.nl
Virtual SAN 6.5 adds support for native iSCSI support within VSAN. The main use cases are supporting physical servers and also Microsoft Clustering Technologies that require shared disks. One can create iSCSI Targets and LUNs on VSAN and use iSCSI initiator to access the storage.
[Infographic] 5 Red Flags Your EUC Environment Is Missing This – VMware Blogs
Notice any of these five red flags in your end-user computing (EUC) environment? Yikes! You could use a digital workspace.
VCAP6-NV (3V0-643) Study Guide – Part 14. Monitor VMware NSX Implementation – vzealand.com
This is part 14 of 20+ blogs I am writing covering the exam prep guide for the VMware Certified Advanced Professional 6 – Network Virtualisation Deployment (3V0-643) VCAP6-NV certification.
The difference between VM Encryption in vSphere 6.5 and vSAN encryption – Yellow Bricks
More and more people are starting to ask me what the difference is between VMCrypt aka VM Encryption and the beta feature we announced not to long ago called vSAN Encryption.
Virtualization and Ending ‘Security Theater’ -VMware Radius
According to VMware SVP Tom Corn, many of today’s security challenges are structural, but virtualization offers a solution.
How To Efficiently Derive Value From VMware Integrated OpenStack – VMware Blogs
One of our recent posts on this blog covered how VMware Integrated Openstack (VIO) can be deployed in less than 15 minutes thanks to an easy and friendly wizard-driven deployment.
Monitor Cisco Networks with vRealize Operations
By: Lora Johnson New to the VMware Solutions Exchange today, the Blue Medora VMware vRealize Operations Management Pack for Cisco Networking allows you to monitor your entire Cisco Networking environment within vRealize Operations. Why monitor Cisco Networking inside vROps? Your Cisco network is a critical component in your infrastructure, connecting your apps, databases, servers and The post Monitor Cisco Networks with vRealize Operations appeared first on VMware Cloud Management .
Can Storage Policies be used with VIC? – CormacHogan.com
The answer is an emphatic yes. One can absolutely use storage policies with vSphere Integrated Containers (VIC).
