List all “thick” swap files on vSAN – Yellow Bricks
As some may know, on vSAN by default the swap file is a fully reserved file. This means that if you have a VM with 8GB of memory, vSAN will reserve 16GB capacity in total for it. 16GB? Yes, 16GB as the FTT=1 policy is also applied to it. In vSAN 6.2 we introduced the ability to have swap files created “thin” or “unreserved”
PowerNSX in VMware Hands on Labs
PowerNSX in VMware Hands on Labs VMware Hands on Labs provide a plethora of free, online labs to validate and test features of VMware products. HOL-1803-01-NET – VMware NSX – Getting Started HOL-1803-02-NET – VMware NSX – Distributed Firewall and Micro-Segmentation HOL-1803-03-NET – VMware NSX – Operations and Visibility HOL-1821-01-CMP – vRealize Automation 7 – […]
VMFS Locking Mechanisms
In a shared storage environment, when multiple hosts access the same VMFS datastore, specific locking mechanisms are used. These locking mechanism prevent multiple hosts from concurrently writing t…Read More
vSphere Integrated Containers – Protecting VCH 2/2
This is post two of protecting your Virtual Container Host (VCH), if you did not check post one , I really encourage you to check it out b…Read More
Cloud security market to reach $12B by 2024, driven by rise of cyber attacks
The growing use of cloud services for data storage and increasing sophistication of cyber attacks will lead the cloud security market to rise from $1.4B in 2016 to $12B in 2024.
Ensuring Good with VMware AppDefense
co-author Geoff Wilmington Traditional data center end-point security products focus on detecting and responding to known bad behavior. There are hundreds of millions of disparate malware attacks, with over a million getting added every day. In addition, there is the threat of zero-day attacks exploiting previously unknown vulnerabilities. It becomes a never-ending race to “chase The post Ensuring Good with VMware AppDefense appeared first on Network Virtualization .
VMware Cloud on AWS: Thoughts One Year On
Last week at VMworld 2017 in the US, VMware announced the initial availability of VMware Cloud on AWS. It was the focal point for VMware at the event and probably the most important strategic play that VMware has undertaken in it’s history. This partnership was officially announced at last year’s VMworld and at the time I wrote a couple of The post VMware Cloud on AWS: Thoughts One Year On appeared first on VIRTUALIZATION IS LIFE! .
How to Configure Freesco Virtual Router on vSphere 6.0
FREESCO, a NAT/firewall router/server based on Linux and available for free under GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPLv2) in .OVA format. Freesco is very powerful and versatile and can conne…Read More
See you at VMworld 2017 Barcelona
Now that the US VMworld 2017 event in Las Vegas is over for another year, the focus turns to the VMworld 2017 event in Europe. This year, it once again takes place in Barcelona, Spain. A difference this year is that there is not much of a gap between US and European events, with the […] The post See you at VMworld 2017 Barcelona appeared first on CormacHogan.com .
PowerCLI Collection: PowerNSX Desktop Jumpstart and process YAML (yml) config file | Pascal’s Wereld on WordPress.com
In my last blog post (https://pascalswereld.nl/2017/08/24/nsx-for-desktop-jumpstart-microsegmentation-with-horizon-service-installer-fling/) I wrote about using the Horizon Service Installer fling for adding Horizon services to NSX for Desktop. From that blog post I have been evolving the services file with services and rules that will normally appear in an EUC solution with VMware products. Not just sticking with Horizon 7,…Read More
vROps Webinar 2017 – Announcing Part 4 : Optimizing Workload Performance Using Automation
Back from VMworld 2017. Clearly, this has to be the BEST EVER VMworld for VMware and its customers. I am still hungover from all the announcements and amazing solutions we have to offer to our… Click on the title to continue reading the post..
VMware on AWS Quick Hits
vSphere plus SDDC Manager (VMware Cloud Foundation) plus NSX-V hosted on bare-metal at AWS. VMware manages hardware account and bills you (separate from any AWS account you have) 4 nodes to …Read More
Get your VMware certification URL and PDFs
After all that hard work, it’s time to show off. You can obtain PDFs of your VMware certifications or a URL listing all of them in the VMware Certification Manager. The URL will look like a…Read More
NSX, BGP, ECMP quick hits
When configuring NSX, BGP and ECMP there are a few configuration requirements you need to keep in mind: BGP neighbors ESG Firewall must be disabled BGP Timers BGP Graceful Restart Static Routes on …Read More
Hardware VTEPs supported by NSX
I had a discussion with a client about this a little while ago and it took me some time to find the link, but here’s VMware’s current list of supported Hardware VXLAN Gateways. I’…Read More
Powershell report on NSX IP Pools
While troubleshooting and NSX install I began wondering about the NSX IP pools and what was being used in them. I still need to look up the allocated IPs and report on the objects using them (name…Read More
Moving an NSX DLR control VM (datastore or host)
If you have deployed an appliance along with your NSX distributed logical router you might need to move it around in the vSphere environment. However, using the normal vSphere migration method caus…Read More
NSX distributed logical router appliance Part 2
In a previous post I talked about UDLR/DLR differences, why you might need to deploy an appliance with your (U)DLR and how high availability works for the optional appliance. This post will cover m…Read More
NSX distributed logical router appliance Part 1
When you create a Universal or “regular” Distributed Logical Router in NSX you have the option of deploying an appliance along with it. This post will cover why to deploy an appliance a…Read More
Improving workload performance with DRS and vROps 6.6
The DRS Dilemma. vSphere’s Distributed resource scheduler has long been a part of our data centers, keeping an ever vigilant watch over our hosts and their workloads. Distributed resource scheduler, or DRS for short, is responsible for choosing the best host for each of our virtual machines to run on. When you deploy a new VM, DRS is there for the initial placement. When a cluster is out of balance or a host is running low on resources,
