vSphere 6.5 PSC’s – Multisite SSO Domains & Failures | vWud.net on WordPress.com
Since vSphere 6.5 came along we have deprecated a PSC/SSO topology that I have seen customers deploy quite frequently, therefore I wanted to quickly explain what has changed and why. Since vSphere 6.5 it is no longer possible to re-point a vCenter server between SSO sites – See VMware KB 2131191 This has a big…
Free Tickets to VMworld 2017
If you are looking for a free ticket to the US VMworld 2017, then look no further. There are several sponsors that are offering a chance to win free tickets. VMworld US will take place in Las Vegas,…Read More
How to Convert Between Preallocated and Growable Disks in VMware
VMware normally creates “growable” disks, which start small and grow over time as you add data. However, you can also create “preallocated” disks that start at their maximum size. If you want to compact a disk later, you’ll need to convert it from preallocated to growable. Or, you may want to convert a disk from growable to preallocated for maximum performance.
vSpeaking Podcast Episode 50: vSAN Off-Road
vSAN ReadyNode provides the most flexible hardware options to build Hyper-Converged Infrastructure based on VMware Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Software. However, occasionally we get the question about vSAN designs that are slightly outside the standard vSAN ReadyNode configuration. This week we invite VMware SE Manager James LeFort to go off-road with us and share some of the The post vSpeaking Podcast Episode 50: vSAN Off-Road appeared first on Virtual Blocks .
Intel Purley Platform Day 0 Readiness for vSAN
Intel Purley is launched today and you can read about it in Intel website here. With that, we also include new “vSAN ReadyNode Generation” in our vSAN VCG listing. If you go to vSAN VCG, you will find a new entry “Gen3 – Xeon Scalable” in addition to the previous generation. If you need to The post Intel Purley Platform Day 0 Readiness for vSAN appeared first on Virtual Blocks .
Uniquely identifying VMs in vSphere Part 3: Enhanced Linked Mode & Cross VC-vMotion
Back in 2012, I had published two articles which provides details and guidance on how to uniquely identify a Virtual Machine for both a vSphere and/or vCloud Director environment. The primary use case for this information was for customers or partners who have developed their own provisioning solution which requires them to track their VM assets throughout their lifecycle, […]
VMware NSX: The smart person’s guide – TechRepublic
VMware’s NSX hypervisor provides a platform to manage virtualized network deployments. Learn more about the network virtualization platform in this resource guide.
vSAN Hits Another Gear with New Intel Xeon Processor Scalable Family
Do you still need that extra push to join the thousands of organizations adopting hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI)? Looking for one more reason to convince your management team to modernize your data center? We are here to help you “hit the refresh!”
Top Reasons To Attend VMworld 2017
Top Reasons To Attend VMworld 2017
The Year of HCI
Joe Baguley, VMware EMEA CTO and Lee Dilworth, EMEA Practice Lead, Storage & Availability discuss why customers are flocking to HCI.
Top 20 VSAN articles for June 2017
Component metadata health check fails with invalid state error vSphere 5.5 vSAN requirements FAQ: Support statement for 512e and 4K Native drives for VMware vSphere and vSAN Cannot view or add vSAN Storage Providers in the vSphere Web Client VMware vSAN witness appliance may be using evaluation license key instead of embedded key Unable to […] The post Top 20 VSAN articles for June 2017 appeared first on Support Insider.
Top 20 NSX articles for June 2017
Update sequence for vSphere 6.5 and its compatible VMware products Best Practices for upgrading NSX for vSphere Update sequence for vSphere 6.0 and its compatible VMware products vCenter Server certificate validation error for external solutions in environments with Embedded Platform Services Controller ESXi 5.5 and 6.0 hosts fail with a PSOD: VMCIEventDelayedDispatchCB@com Registering NSX Manager […] The post Top 20 NSX articles for June 2017 appeared first on Support Insider.
How VMware Views the Intersection of Virtualization and Containers – The New Stack
VMware is investing more deeply in the container native ecosystem. It has upped its involvement in open source communities through such efforts as Lightwave. But what is its approach when considering the intersection of virtualization and container technologies? Paul Fazzone, in our interview with him from Dockercon 2017, for The New Stack Makers podcast, makes the point …
VMware – VMware HealthAnalyzer vha.properties
I was using VMware’s HealthAnalyzer tool (version 5.2.0) recently to perform a vSphere health check for a customer and encountered the following error when using a read-only account. “A service error during during collection” (you might also see “A runtime error occurred during collection” pop up). In addition to the Read-Only permissions to the vCenter […]
Add Multiple ESXi Hosts To vCenter Server Using PowerCLi
A few days back I created a vSphere cluster with 32 ESXi hosts and I really didn’t want to add all these hosts using the UI so I decided to put together a short powercli script to manage this. The script that was tested using the following software versions: VMware vCenter Server 6.5 VMware ESXi 6.5 build 5146846 … Continue reading »
Runecast Analyzer Keeps vSphere Infrastructure Problems-Free – ESX Virtualization
Runecast Analyzer 1.5 has added a possiblity to manage several vCenter servers, security enhancements and log search
VMkernel Observations (VOBs)
Advertise here with BSA I never really looked at VOBs but as this came up last week during a customer meeting I decided to look in to it a bit. I hadn’t realized there was such a large number of them in the first place. My conversation was in the context of vSAN, but there are many different VOBs. […] ” VMkernel Observations (VOBs) ” originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com . Follow me on twitter – @DuncanYB.
vSphere 6.5 PSC’s – Multisite SSO Domains & Failures | vWud.net on WordPress.com
Since vSphere 6.5 came along we have deprecated a PSC/SSO topology that I have seen customers deploy quite frequently, therefore I wanted to quickly explain what has changed and why. Since vSphere 6.5 it is no longer possible to re-point a vCenter server between SSO sites – See VMware KB 2131191 This has a big…Read More
Pick the right vSAN storage media for better capacity and performance
Without a compatibility guide to lead the way, it can be tough to choose the appropriate VMware vSAN storage media. Here are a few tips to steer you in the right direction.
