VMware is Shaping the Future of NFV at Mobile World Congress 2017 — via VMware Telco NFV Blog
VMware will have a significant presence at this year’s Mobile World Congress, including a range of Network Function Virtualisation (NFV) demonstrations and presentations at our booth in hall 3, stand K10.
Designing vSAN Networks – Why Should I Use the Distributed Switch? – via Virtual Blocks
The vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS) is a powerful, but often misunderstood technology that is included with VMware vSAN. This post will review some of my favorite settings on the VDS, and how you can use them to get better control, performance, and visibility into your virtual SAN cluster. While it is most known for the ability to create port groups that exist on all hosts with a simple click, it also has a lot of lesser known but incredibly powerful functions that will aid the vSAN administrator.
VMware Expands NSX Network Virtualization Capabilities — via Enterprise Networking Planet
New releases of NXS for vSphere and NXS-T provide new features to make it easier for organization to deploy, manage and secure virtual networks.
[Podcast] VMware End-User Computing on Frontline Chatter — via VMware EUC Blog
What’s next for VMware End-User Computing (EUC)? Pat Lee, vice president of product management for cloud apps and desktops at VMware, recently talked about this and much more on EUC podcast Frontline Chatter.
Tutorial: Project Clarity and Angular CLI – via Bram Borggreve
Today we will be looking at integrating Project Clarity with Angular CLI.
Expanding VMware Horizon RDSH Farms Using Instant Clone
See how quickly VMware Horizon RDSH farms can be expanded using Instant Clone compared to Citrix XenApp using PVS
What are the different ways to patch VCSA 6.5? — via Enterprise Daddy
VMware released the first patch for the vCenter Server/VCSA 6.5 last week. In this post, we will look at the various ways that are available to patch VCSA 6.5.
Another recovery from multiple failures in a vSAN stretched cluster — via CormacHogan.com
In a previous post related to multiple failures in a vSAN stretched cluster, we showed that if a failure caused the data components to be out of sync, the most recent copy of the data needs to recover before the object becomes accessible again.
vCenter Server 6.5 Installation – Step by Step Guide — via Let’s Virtualize
As we are aware that VMware announced General Availability of VMware vSphere 6.5 on November 15 2016 and it provides a lot of cool features and functionalities that has been enhanced in this release, have dedicated couple of articles talking about the new features in vCenter Server 6.5 10 Things we need to know about vCenter Server 6.5 and also discussed about the various clients The Respective Clients we can make use of in VMware vSphere 6.5 to connect directly to our ESXi host and to connect to vCenter Server.
NSX News You Can Use by Roger Fortier – February 7, 2017 — via VMware News and Updates
NSX Winter Launch News
What is VMware Storage DRS (SDRS)? — via ESX Virtualization
Today we’ll get more details about another VMware technology called Storage DRS (SDRS). Storage DRS allows you to manage the aggregated resources of a datastore cluster, which means that you can balance a space and I/O load between different datastores within a datastore cluster. Also, SDRS manages the initial placement of virtual disks based on space and I/O workload. Today’s post is entitled – What is VMware Storage DRS (SDRS)?
Eye on VMware Update 02/10/2017 — via VMware News and Updates
vmwareAnother busy week for me. I was out in New Jersey briefly and just managed to fly home before the snow hits. I hope those of you in the Northeast are staying warm. This week we announced the next Horizon to the public. Please see my previous emails for more details.
VMware Knowledge and Skills Assessment – Setting Your Customer Up For Success — via VMware TAM Blog
At the 2015 Datacenter Conference, Gartner stated that the CIOs they surveyed ranked skills as the number one barrier to achieving their objectives. – CLEAR report
vSAN and SRM RPO and RTO — via Virtual Blocks
A question came up recently from a customer that went like this: “I am looking for an active/active configuration for disaster avoidance and disaster recovery with a recovery time objective of 0 minutes and a recovery point objective of 0 minutes. Is this something I can achieve with VMware vSAN and/or Site Recovery Manager (SRM)?” It is not the first time I have heard this question so it naturally made sense to write a blog article. Let’s dig in…
Using vROps Management Pack for vSAN to understand cluster — via VMware Cloud Mgmnt Blog
Accurate interpretation of metrics in the data center is critical to the efficient design, operation, and optimization of any environment. The vRealize Operations (vR Ops) Management Pack for vSAN extends the powerful abilities of vR Ops to bring the right information to the eyes of the Administrator running vSAN.
VMware vSAN 6.2 wins 2016 Storage Products of the Year gold in the server-based storage category — via SearchStorage.com
The server-based storage Product of the Year gold award goes to VMware vSAN 6.2, which added dedupe, compression, QoS and erasure coding.
No suitable disk was found when upgrading to ESXi 6.5 on USB? — via virtuallyGhetto
I got a question from my buddy Paudie O’Riordan this morning where he was noticing a strange issue while trying to upgrade his ESXi hosts from 6.0 to 6.5 (all on the VMware HCL). Like many of our customers, he runs ESXi on USB device and when he attempted to upgrade using ESXi Scripted Install (Go Automation!), he was surprised to find that his USB device was not being detected.
VMware makes virtual desktops faster, easier to deploy and manage — via SiliconANGLE
VMware Inc. is updating its Horizon virtual desktop services to reduce the cost and complexity of delivering Windows desktops over a network and improving performance for users as well.
What is VMware Orchestrated Restart? — via ESX Virtualization
VMware Orchestrated Restart has been introduced in vSphere 6.5. This built-in feature allows multi-tier VMs to be restarted with the right order in case of host failure. Those VMs can be placed on different hosts, either automatically via DRS or manually, via vMotion.
Log Insight 4.0: New Gauge Chart — via SFlanders.net
In Log Insight 4.0 a new chart option was introduced. In this post, I would like to cover the new chart option. Read on to learn more!
