Is your business paralysed by complexity and drowning in data? [vmwareemeablog.com/uk]
On average it takes 12 weeks to provision new IT infrastructure. This inertia means missed business opportunities and frustration as the needs of the business are not met by legacy approaches to information technology.
INFINIDAT’s InfiniBox content pack for vRealize Log Insight [blogs.vmware.com]
INFINIDAT’s InfiniBox content pack for vRealize Log Insight provides customers with the capability to easily monitor and analyze InfiniBox systems, by converting syslog messages into helpful insights.
Designing a networking platform for IaaS multi-tenancy [blah.cloud]
Based on my last post, you’ll understand some of the challenges that are faced with traditional approaches to datacenter networking so let’s get into the high-level conceptual design here of how we might solve one of these problems. Most service providers have or are at least familiar with using MPLS for customer segregation in a WAN scope as I alluded to in my previous datacenter networking article. What we want to do is simplify the provisioning and distribution of subnets to a customer’s virtual environment, all the way up to the WAN.
IBM STORAGE ENHANCEMENTS FOR vSPHERE WEB CLIENT PLUG-IN SOLUTION [blogs.vmware.com]
The recently certified IBM Storage Enhancements for vSphere Web Client Plug-in is one of the most popular VMware integration points that our storage customers use today. Easily deployed, it allows our customers to enable VMware administrators to independently and centrally manage IBM storage resources in their VMware environments, consistent with their application needs.
vSpeaking Podcast Episode 39: Disaster Recovery with GS Khalsa [blogs.vmware.com]
This month’s massive outage of Amazon Web Services’ S3 (Simple Storage Service) platform, was if nothing else a reminder to us all that we need to have Disaster Recovery plans we can count on. This week we bring in one of VMware’s Disaster Recovery experts, GS Khalsa to discuss various aspects of Availability and Disaster Recovery.
Stateful Containers on vSphere with the Orchestrator of your Choice – Docker Swarm of Google Kubernetes [blogs.vmware.com]
If you analyze the list of most pulled images on Docker Hub, images for running data intensive workloads in containers are among the most used of the top 10-15 images. Mongo, MySQL, Redis, Postgres, etc. each have over 10 million pulls and this tells a story by itself. Additionally, containers do not meet the requirements for effortlessly running data intensive applications and persisting state. Containers lack security, data integrity, data protection, etc. all qualities which are currently available in the vSphere eco-system.
vSAN Got a 2.5x Performance Increase: Thank You Intel Optane! [blogs.vmware.com]
Today, March 19th Intel announced the Intel® Optane™ SSD DC P4800X—the first flash device built on the much-anticipated 3D XPoint technology. This is exciting news for vSAN customers, since—as a result of Intel and VMware’s active collaboration—we are pleased to offer day 1 support of vSAN 6.5 and ESXi 6.5 with the Intel® Optane™ SSD DC P4800X. This is the first Intel Optane NVMe drive (375GB) to be made available with more coming soon (750GB and 1.5TB).
New Mechanism for Unleashing vSAN Innovation [blogs.vmware.com]
A major advantage of vSAN is that it is natively integrated with vSphere—in fact it’s the only vSphere-embedded storage solution available! As a result of this architecture customers benefit from management simplicity, high performance and a natural way to evolve to HCI. But up to now, that tight relationship also meant that vSAN releases were only available tied to major vSphere updates.
Take the plunge into HCI – Run a simple vSAN Assessment! [blogs.vmware.com]
Hyper-converged infrastructure has quickly become the hottest topic in the data center modernization journey. However, many customers are still evaluating how to best assess their HCI needs. Fear not! A very simple and quick vSAN Assessment may provide you the answer.
VMware Integrated OpenStack Version 3.1 New Features Demo – Directpath I/O
Directpath I/O allows guest VMs to directly access hardware devices instead of using an emulated or a para-virtualized device. Advantages of DirectPath I/O includes reduced CPU cycles in workloads with very high packets per second. VIO 3.1 proudly supports Directpath I/O for workloads that requires direct access to hardware.
An overview of current storage vendor support for VMware Virtual Volumes (VVols) [vsphere-land.com]
VMware’s new external storage architecture, Virtual Volumes (VVols), turned 2 years old this month as it launched as part of vSphere 6.0. The new VASA specification for VVols has been under development by VMware for over 6 years and it’s up to storage vendors to set their own development pace for supporting it. In this post I’ll provide an update on how each storage vendor is positioned to support VVols, this is entirely based on what is published in the VVols HCL (see below figure) and some research I have done. It will not cover things like the capabilities and scalability for VVols that is up to each vendor to dictate what they are capable of doing with VVols and how many VVols that they can support on a storage array.
Did You Know #6 – Using custom metrics groups in vROps for troubleshooting [vxpresss.blogspot.com]
Welcome back to the Did You Know Series on vRealize operations Manager. As I mentioned in the first part of this series, the goal here is to unearth the Best Kept Secrets of vRealize Operations Manager.
Latest Fling from VMware Labs – VMware Horizon Toolbox 2.0 [ntpro.nl]
VMware Horizon Toolbox 2.0 is a Web portal that acts as an extension to View Administrator in VMware Horizon 6 or above.
What is VMware Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC) [vladan.fr]
I know many of you knows what that is, but this post is targeting people who do not or know a little bit, but they’re not sure if what they know is enough. If you’re experienced VMware admin you’ll won’t find probably anything you don’t already know. VMware Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC) is a vSphere cluster feature which allows virtual machines (VMs) to use vMotion between hosts with different processors. (CPUs). The way that EVC works is basically masking the advanced capabilities of the newer CPUs in order to have the same level fo instructions across the whole VMware cluster.
Certification Insights: Forgotten Password [blogs.vmware.com]
In can be tempting to create a new account if you can’t remember your previous information, or if you’ve changed email addresses due to a job change. But, that leads to multiple accounts which causes its own set of problems down the line.
The CEO of tech giant VMware gave us his best advice for becoming a CEO [businessinsider.com]
Many years ago Pat Gelsinger was encouraged to dress better and learn about finance. But what advice would he give now?
Fix orphaned vSAN objects [ivobeerens.nl]
From the vSphere Web Client you cannot manage orphaned vSAN objects . To check and fix orphaned vSAN objects, the Ruby vSphere Console (RVC) is needed. The ‘vsan.check_state’ command checks if VMs and Virtual SAN objects are valid and accessible.
Comparing Traditional, Converged and Hyperconverged Infrastructure [youtube.com]
This quick 10 minute video describes the differences between traditional, converged, and hyperconverged architectures and provides some strategies for customers who are looking to evaluate these choices in a normalized way.
Optimize Dell EMC PowerEdge Performance with 5 Key Metrics [blogs.vmware.com]
Hardware serves as the foundation for your IT stack, and if your hardware devices aren’t performing at optimal levels, your networks, applications and storage ultimately suffers. For your Dell EMC PowerEdge servers, extending your monitoring to see more metrics can give you the visibility that you need to clearly understand issues, simplifying troubleshooting and eliminating mean-time-to-innocence (MTTI) hunts.
RUSH POST: VMware Tools and RSS Incompatibility Issues [blogs.vmware.com]
VMware is aware of the following reported issues affecting Windows Server 2012 / 2012R2 and 2008 / 2008R2 Guest Operating Systems on VMware vSphere:
