Designing vSAN Networks – Using Multiple Interfaces? – via Virtual Blocks
vSAN can leverage a number of core ESXi networking features to increase performance and availability. vSAN VMkernel ports should always be configured to use more than one interface to preserve availability in the event of a link failure. There are a number of ways to configure this fail over.
Retrieving NVMe details through PowerCLI – via Virtu-Al.Net
Recently I was contacted and asked if there was a way to retrieve information about the NVMe Drives in an ESXi host, this information is easily accessible via ESXCLI using the “nvme” namespaces.
Reviewer’s Guide for View in Horizon 7: Install and Configure – via ntpro.nl
The Reviewer’s Guide for View in VMware Horizon 7: Installation and Configuration is one of a series of guides to help you evaluate the View component of Horizon 7.
Installation and Configuration Guide for vSphere Data Protection(VDP) 6.1 # Part-1 – via VMware Insight
VDP formally known as vSphere Data Protection, designed and powered by EMC Avamar. It’s fully integrated with vCenter and Web Client. VDP solution has designed for backup and restoration of VMware Virtual Machines. VDP is appliance which is build up with Suse Linux, and runs with 4vCPU and 4 GB of RAM. It’s prepackaged OVF which is very simple to deploy in environment. While thinking about sizing the datastore, make sure you to use a larger Data Protection datatastore, as it cannot be increased once application has been deployed. Refer to recommendation from VMware for VDP data sizing.
vROPS – survive the Kraken – Endpoint Operations Example – Pascal’s Wereld
Guess who’s back, back again… Next to doing End User Computing engagements, where user experience, performance and capacity management is also an integral part, I occasionally am involved in separate operations management engagements. And with VMware often vRealize Operations Manager, or vROPS, shows its face. As some would have noticed I mentioned vROPS in articles on this blog before. This time I am going to dive a little into growing some more tentacles and getting some more insights besides our old vSphere friend.
SPBM APIs are now included in pyvmomi (vSphere SDK for Python) – via virtuallyGhetto
I have been spending quite a bit of time lately with PowerCLI Core, especially with one of my pet projects. One of the limitations that PowerCLI Core has today is that the Storage cmdlets which includes vSAN and VVol functionality has not been ported over yet. This means that if you need to do something with VM Storage Policies for example, it would not be possible with PowerCLI Core and you would have to use the Windows PowerCLI version instead.
How-to Create a Security Banner for ESXi – via ESX Virtualization
This tip will allow you to add a security banner to the ESXi direct console. It can be a security message or informative message. Sometimes within an organization, there is a need to have such a message displayed prior to login. This post How-to Create a Security Banner for ESXi, was brought to you by ESX Virtualization.
Learning more about Predictive DRS – via VMware vSphere Blog
Predictive DRS is a new feature in vSphere 6.5 that leverages the predictive analytics of vRealize Operations Manager with the powerful resource scheduler algorithm of vSphere DRS. Together, these two products enable workload balancing for certain VMs before resource utilization spikes occur, potentially eliminating a great amount of resource contention that might have occurred in the past.
Deutschland-Chefin Annette Maier blickt auf ein ereignisreiches IT-Jahr 2016 bei VMware zurück – und zeigt, in welche Richtung das Unternehmen in 2017 steuert
Turbulent, überraschend und überaus erfolgreich: Deutschland-Chefin Annette Maier blickt auf ein ereignisreiches IT-Jahr 2016 bei VMware zurück – und zeigt, in welche Richtung das Unternehmen in 2017 steuert. Mehr dazu lesen Sie in Ihrem Blogbeitrag.
Custom vRealize Operations Dashboards with Private Access Lists – via VMware Cloud Management
Blue Medora provides hundreds of dashboards out of the box, but there are still times custom dashboards are required. A client recently contacted me wanting to create an executive level dashboard showing his MSSQL environment health. His requirements were to provide very high level health metrics which executives could use. He also wanted them to only have access to that specific dashboard.
Using HCIBench to benchmark vSAN – Part 3: Test – vMustard.com
Still with me? Okay good!! So to recap we deployed the HCIBench Controller VM in Part One of this series, then we configured it in Part Two. Let’s crack on with the third and final part where we’ll kick off the test then hit paydirt with some lovely performance benchmarks!
Using HCIBench to benchmark vSAN – Part 2: Configure – vMustard.com
Welcome to Part Two of this blog series, walking you through putting your vSAN environment through it’s paces with HCIBench. We deployed the Controller VM in Part One, let’s get on and configure it ready for testing.
Using HCIBench to benchmark vSAN – Part 1: Deploy – vMustard.com
The first thing you’ll want to do with your shiny new vSAN cluster is put it through it’s paces, this series of posts will take you through benchmarking your vSAN cluster with a handy little Fling that’ll do the job perfectly- HCIBench.
VMware vSAN Two-Node Architecture Service Provider Use Cases – via VMware vCloud Blog
Welcome to the latest edition of our vCloud Architecture Toolkit for Service Providers (vCAT-SP) blog series! On the third Thursday of the month, we publish blogs around vCloud Architecture Toolkit for Service Providers – a set of reference documents designed to help you construct a superior working cloud solution leveraging current technologies, recommended practices, and innovative tools that have been proven in real-world enterprises.
New vSAN Management Pack for vRealize Operations – via CormacHogan.com
Last month we announced the release of a new vROps Management Pack specifically for vSAN. Previously the vSAN Management Pack was bundled with the MPSD – Management Pack for Storage Devices. I wrote about this when it entered beta, way back in 2015. Well, for those customers who are only interested in monitoring vSAN, and didn’t want all the other parts of the MPSD, the new vSAN Management Pack is now a stand-alone offering, so no MPSD required.
NSX IPv6 Support – vMBaggum
This week I got some good questions from a customer about NSX, especially on NSX IPv6 support.
Slow GUI Response On VDP 6.1.3 – via virtuallyPeculiar
I recently ran into an issue, where the Backup Job tab was extremely slow in loading the jobs and when I say extremely slow it was taking forever to load the jobs. This was the same with the other tabs as well in the Web Client VDP GUI.
Remove vRealize LogInsight Password complexity – vRatpack
If you hate to remember complex passwords for your lab environment: so do I. Unfortunately there are applications out there that have no easy way to disable password complexity. VRealize LogInsight is one of them. Here’s how to set the password to whatever you like anyways.
Log Insight 4.0: Clarity Theme – via SFlanders.net
One of the major changes in Log Insight 4.0 is that it now has the VMware Clarity theme applied. Read on to learn more!
What Is an Identity-Defined Security Perimeter? – via AirWatch Blog
In my recent blog post, I touched upon the common, or single, experience strategy and how identity is the new perimeter for that strategy in the enterprise. Today, I want to take a deeper dive into what it means. How exactly does identity define your users’ experiences? How can companies take advantage of this to create delight while securely enabling users?
