VCDX #181 Marc Huppert

Month: April 2017

Native VCSA bootstrap installer in vSAN 6.6

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Native VCSA bootstrap installer in vSAN 6.6 [www.virtuallyghetto.com]

Native VCSA bootstrap installer in vSAN 6.6

Almost four years ago, I documented a really cool vSAN capability here and here, which demonstrates how to bootstrap a vSAN datastore onto a single ESXi host. This powerful capability, which was by design, enables customers to easily standup new infrastructure including the vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) in a pure greenfield environment where you only had bare-metal hardware to start with and no existing vCenter Server.

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Update to VMware Horizon Client for Linux 4.4…

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Update to VMware Horizon Client for Linux 4.4 Today [blogs.vmware.com/euc]

Update to VMware Horizon Client for Linux 4.4…

In our 4.4 release, the VMware Horizon Client for Linux has been enhanced with an intuitive user interface (UI) for USB redirection. This is a great improvement over the previous command line option.

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What’s new in vSAN 6.6?

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What’s new in vSAN 6.6? [cormachogan.com]

What’s new in vSAN 6.6?

vSAN 6.6 is finally here. This sixth iteration of vSAN is the quite a significant release for many reasons, as you will read about shortly. In my opinion, this may be the vSAN release with the most amount of new features. Let’s cut straight to the chase and highlight all the features of this next version of vSAN. There is a lot to tell you about. Now might be a good time to grab yourself a cup of coffee.

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Notify Customers: Update on vSphere 3rd Party…

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Notify Customers: Update on vSphere 3rd Party vSwitch Support [blogs.vmware.com/partnernews]

Notify Customers: Update on vSphere 3rd Party…

VMware is discontinuing the third party virtual switch (vSwitch) program. VMware will continue to support the 3rd party virtual switch APIs, and the enablement of a partner’s use of these APIs up to the vSphere 6.5 Update 1 and prior vSphere versions, as long as an active support and subscription services contract exists. All vSphere releases and vSphere 6.5 Update 1 will no longer have third party vSwitch APIs and third party vSwitches will no longer work. View these FAQs to learn more and encourage your customers to migrate to vSphere Distributed Switch using our free tool.

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VMware Cloud Foundation 2.1.2 is Generally…

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VMware Cloud Foundation 2.1.2 is Generally Available [blogs.vmware.com/cloud-foundation]

VMware Cloud Foundation 2.1.2 is Generally…

On April 6th 2017, we released VMware Cloud Foundation 2.1.2 as a minor patch release. As a patch release, you’ll notice that the release notes are abbreviated and that the content of the VMware Cloud Foundation 2.1.1 release notes also applies to this release.

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VCDX181.com – @Cohesity DataPlatform Virtual…

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VCDX181.com – @Cohesity DataPlatform Virtual Edition Hands On [vcdx181.com]

VCDX181.com – @Cohesity DataPlatform Virtual…

I got the opportunity to test the new Cohesity Platform Virtual Edition. I was the first guy in the world to install this product in my Home Lab and provide an online review. I am really honored for that. Thanks a lot Cohesity.

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Upgrade VMware vRealize Operations Manager 6.2…

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Upgrade VMware vRealize Operations Manager 6.2 to 6.5 [wuchikin.wordpress.com]

Upgrade VMware vRealize Operations Manager 6.2…

There are two phases of upgrade VMware vRealize Operations Manager 6.5, it is Operating System and product upgrade. To upgrade vRealize Operations Manager to the latest version please follow the below procedures:

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What’s new for vSAN 6.6?

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What’s new for vSAN 6.6? [www.yellow-bricks.com]

What’s new for vSAN 6.6?

Yes this may confuse you a bit, a new vSAN release namely vSAN 6.6 but it doesn’t coincide with a vSphere release. That is right, this is a “patch” release for vSphere but a major version for vSAN! It seems like yesterday that we announced 6.2 with Stretched Clustering and 6.5 with iSCSI and 2-Node Direct Connect. vSAN 6.6 brings some exciting new functionality and a whole bunch of improvements. Note that there were already various performance enhancements introduced in vSphere 6.0 Update 3 for vSAN 6.2. Anyway, what’s new for vSAN 6.6?

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What’s New with VMware vSAN 6.6

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What’s New with VMware vSAN 6.6 [blogs.vmware.com/virtualblocks]

What’s New with VMware vSAN 6.6

VMware vSAN has been innovating at a rapid pace. With each new release, we’ve delivered greater value to our customers through new features that have propelled adoption by mainstream customers for any workload, any application. More than 7,000 customers have chosen to entrust their most important workloads to vSAN! This momentum has not waned as vSAN recently won 3 industry awards for being the Product of the Year in this space!

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New VMware Virtual SAN and Cohesity…

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New VMware Virtual SAN and Cohesity DataPlatform White Paper

New VMware Virtual SAN and Cohesity…

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 data centers with Virtual SAN and Cohesity as primary and secondary storage solutions.

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What is VMware Hot-Add RAM and How to use it?

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What is VMware Hot-Add RAM and How to use it? [www.vladan.fr]

What is VMware Hot-Add RAM and How to use it?

VMware Hot-Add RAM feature isn’t new, but somehow we haven’t covered it much just yet. So this post will explain What is VMware Hot-Add RAM and How to use it. The Hot-Add RAM goes hand in hand with Hot-Add CPU, but we’ll cover that in a separate post.

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Harbor — secure shelter for your Dockers from…

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Harbor — secure shelter for your Dockers from VMWare [hackernoon.com]

Harbor — secure shelter for your Dockers from…

It’s been a while since my first acquaintance with Docker and Docker registries. I must say — Docker team is doing great job as far as features, speed and quality of the product. Community also creates and extend Docker platform with wide variety of solutions.

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VSAN.ClomMaxComponentSizeGB explained

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VSAN.ClomMaxComponentSizeGB explained [cormachogan.com]

VSAN.ClomMaxComponentSizeGB explained

By default VSAN.ClomMaxComponentSizeGB is set to 255GB. When Virtual SAN stores virtual machine objects, it creates components whose default size does not exceed 255 GB. If you use physical disks that are smaller than 255GB, then you might see errors similar to the following when you try to deploy a virtual machine:

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VMware Partner Network Awarded 5 Stars in CRN’s…

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VMware Partner Network Awarded 5 Stars in CRN’s 2017 Partner Program Guide [vmware.com/radius]

VMware Partner Network Awarded 5 Stars in CRN’s…

VMware is proud to have its partner program, the VMware Partner Network, recognized with a 5-star rating in CRN’s 2017 Partner Program Guide.

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Cohesity DataPlatform VE

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Cohesity DataPlatform VE [www.punchingclouds.com]

Cohesity DataPlatform VE

Today is a big day in the world of enterprise data protection as Cohesity announces the release of Cohesity DataPlatform Virtual Edition (VE) for remote and branch offices. Cohesity DataProtect, the new DataPlatform VE product delivers an integrated software-only backup solution that deploys as a VMware virtual appliance is an ideal solution for remote or branch office locations. With Cohesity DataPlatform VE, organizations data can be consolidated and replicated to centralized data centers for disaster recovery and long-term retention with Cohesity’s intelligent, web-scale storage system, with a policy based management driven model which saves companies time, money, and mitigates operational risks. With the introduction of Cohesity…Read More

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vSphere 6.5 Security Product Walkthroughs

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vSphere 6.5 Security Product Walkthroughs [www.yelof.com]

vSphere 6.5 Security Product Walkthroughs

Are you aware of the VMware Product Walkthrough site? If not, you’re missing out on some really great content. A product walkthrough is a guided “tour” of many of VMware’s products. They are helpful when you want to do a dry run of a task, like encrypting a VM for example, so that you can become familiar with the necessary steps in the vSphere Web Client. A product walkthrough (PWT) is also helpful when demonstrating to your peers or colleagues just how easy security management has become in vSphere 6.5!

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Eye on VMware 04/10/2017

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Eye on VMware 04/10/2017 [vmwaresheng.wordpress.com]

Eye on VMware 04/10/2017

Last week I was out in Boston, MA and New Jersey enabling our partners on a multitude of solutions mostly focusing on: NSX, vSAN/HCI. We also had our local NSX Enterprise SE from New York City, Steve Sacchi joined us in delivering a NSX session to a security team.

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