Releasing the VMworld 2017 Hands-on Labs
It all starts today! We are pleased to announce we are releasing the VMworld 2017 Hands-on Labs. We will continue to release these on a daily basis until all 81 are available! If you don’t see your fa
VMware NSX-V: Security for VxRAIL Hyper-Converged Solutions
Check-out the new white paper on leveraging NSX-V for security within the VxRAIL hyper-converged platform. The paper outlines how VxRAIL hyper-converged solutions leveraging NSX-V for security solves many of the security challenges with traditional silo-based architectures. A brief outline is provided below. Make sure to checkout the white paper for additional details.
Utility for VMware App Volumes Monthly Reports
With VMware App Volumes being used by more and more customers in different scenarios, sometimes a practical issue arises for a specific use case. That’s why I’ve written this blog post. Service providers must manually report App Volumes Standard usage each month in the VMware vCloud Air Network (vCAN) business portal. The information required is […] The post Utility for VMware App Volumes Monthly Reports appeared first on VMware End-User Computing Blog .
vSAN Announcements and Highlights from VMworld 2017
Las Vegas wasn’t the only destination on VMworld’s itinerary this year. The annual conference traveled overseas and made waves in Spain. The record breaking number of attendeeds at each event heard how vSAN surprassed the noteworthy milestone of 10,000 customers. Many of these customers were out in full force sharing their vSAN experiences in sessions, The post vSAN Announcements and Highlights from VMworld 2017 appeared first on Virtual Blocks .
CPUID advanced configuration option not taking effect – join the conversation around @vmwarevsphere on #VMTN
Hello, ESXi version is 6. CPU is E-2650 v2. In order to be able to use 1GB Huge Pages from within a CentOS 6.7 guest, I’m trying to configure ESXi to
Ensuring Good with VMware AppDefense
Traditional data center endpoint 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 add
My VMworld 2017 US Experience
If you’re at all curious about how my VMworld 2017 US experience went, just so happens I captured many of the highlights with pictures on Twitter. Made the most of every minute, went to as many events as I could, and thoroughly enjoyed meeting friends, colleagues, and new friends. It was a fulfilling few days. Highlights included a chance meeting of a guy who happens to live near Ithaca NY, a beautiful small town I lived in for 5 years. This chance meeting happened at the VMUnderground…Read More
VMware Network Adapter Types
VMware virtual machines (VM) can be configured with different network adapter types. Depending on the system you’re running, its version, those adapter types may vary. In this post, I’ll try to explain which type adapter exists. There are some exotic and older virtual network adapters, such as Vlance, or Flexible, but most of the time […] Read the full post VMware Network Adapter Types at ESX Virtualization .
VMware vROps Specialist Exam (2VB-602) Experience | vrealize on WordPress.com
Last month VMware has finally released vRealize Operations 2017 Specialist exam (2VB-602). Going by the quote “VMware vRealize Operations 2017 Specialist is a technical professional who plans, manages and helps scale software-defined data center (SDDC) and multi-cloud environments through unified monitoring, automated performance management, cloud planning and capacity optimization. The badge holder helps organizations streamline and…Read More
Now Shipping: VMware Workstation 14 & VMware Fusion 10
Today, after two years of tireless work by teams on multiple continents, we deliver VMware Workstation 14 Pro, VMware Fusion 10 Pro, Workstation 14 Player and Fusion 10 to our expectant fans. You will
Performance of Enterprise Web Applications in Docker Containers on VMware vSphere 6.5
In this paper , VMware explores the performance characteristics of a large enterprise web application running in Docker containers deployed in VMware vSphere 6.5 virtual machines. The paper includes: Performance metrics of the web application running in the Docker virtual and physical environments, detailed analysis about the performance differences, and performance impacts from tuning Docker.
Change vROps “Datastore is running out of disk space” precent centric alert | KISSTIBOR.info on WordPress.com
Datastores is an importent objects in every VMware environtment. Especially free space of Datastore. So I think we need collect information about free space and we want to get alert message when the free space is low or it is getting low on DS. Fortunetly VMware vROps has a built-in alert message about this topic. Name…Read More
Get-VMHostVersion and Get-VMHostLatestVersion PowerShell Function
The Get-VMHostVersion and Get-VMHostLatestVersion PowerShell functions are aimed at helping you to identify the version at which your ESXi is currently running, and whether updates are available. Both are using a JSON based ESXi Build database which is also the backend … Read more »
Ease of Migrating a Virtual Machine from Traditional Storage to vSAN
Demo showing the ease of migrating a virtual machine from traditional storage to vSAN and the performance benefits realized after relocating the SQL Server database to vSAN.
vROPS: Upgrading vROPS for Horizon 6.5 and vROPS 6.6
As announced at vROPS for Horizon 6.5 was released on 21 September. Next, to some expected improvements, there are two bonuses to this upgrade: – one, you can upgrade to vROPS 6.6 which was …Read More
All-Flash Data Centers for Dummies
Are you considering the switch to all-flash storage?
Supporting Fault Tolerance VMs on vSAN Stretched Cluster
During one of our many discussions at VMworld 2017, I was asked about supporting Fault Tolerance on vSAN Stretched Clusters, more specifically SMP-FT. Now to be clear, we can support SMP-FT on vSAN since version 6.1. The difficulty with supporting SMP-FT on vSAN stretched cluster has always been the possible latency between the data sites, […] The post Supporting Fault Tolerance VMs on vSAN Stretched Cluster appeared first on CormacHogan.com .
Reporting vSAN Object distribution across vSAN Disk Groups using PowerCLI
Several weeks back, I was cleaning up my scratch space, where I store all my random code snippets for various questions which I receive on a regular basis and I came across a nifty little script that I had put together for a particular customer request. I had completely forgotten about it and I thought it could come in […]
A vSphere Focused Guide to the Intel Xeon Scalable Family
Intel released the much-anticipated Skylake Server CPU this year. Moving away from the E5-2600-v moniker, Intel names the new iteration of its server CPU the Intel Xeon Scalable Family. On top of this it uses precious metal categories such as Platinum and Gold to identify different types and abilities. Upholding the tradition, the new Xeon […] The post A vSphere Focused Guide to the Intel Xeon Scalable Family appeared first on frankdenneman.nl .
Why we chose vSAN for our business critical apps
Looking at the IT infrastructure at several production sites within my customer’s organization, we quickly noticed IT infrastructure components (mainly compute and storage related) that were not up to
