VCDX #181 Marc Huppert

Month: October 2017

Performance Characterization of Microsoft SQL…

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Performance Characterization of Microsoft SQL Server on VMware vSphere 6.5

Performance Characterization of Microsoft SQL…

In this paper , an online transaction processing (OLTP) benchmark, DVD Store 3, is used to characterize performance and power across five generations of 4-socket Intel servers hosting monster-sized Microsoft SQL Server 2016 database VMs. The results show vSphere is capable of fully utilizing current-generation server and storage technology, achieving great database performance. SQL Server workloads achieve excellent performance with vSphere 6.5 on top of today’s massively multi-core, large…Read More

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What if the VM Memory Config Exceeds the Memory…

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What if the VM Memory Config Exceeds the Memory Capacity of the Physical NUMA Node?

What if the VM Memory Config Exceeds the Memory…

This week I had the pleasure to talk to a customer about NUMA use-cases and a very interesting config came up. They have a VM with a particular memory configuration that exceeds the ESXi host NUMA node memory configuration. This scenario is covered in the vSphere 6.5 Host Resources Deep Dive, excerpt below. Memory Configuration […] The post What if the VM Memory Config Exceeds the Memory Capacity of the Physical NUMA Node? appeared first on frankdenneman.nl .

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VMware Fusion Powershell community module

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VMware Fusion Powershell community module

VMware Fusion Powershell community module

During the VMware Fusion 2017 Tech Preview, I was experimenting around with the new Fusion REST API and I had built a small prototype PowerShell Module as a way for me to learn how the API works. This allowed me to provide valuable feedback back to the Fusion Engineering team on improving the REST API UX. I […]

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vSAN Operations Guide: Deduplication and…

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vSAN Operations Guide: Deduplication and Compression

vSAN Operations Guide: Deduplication and…

This video demonstrates the process for enabling deduplication and compression in a vSAN cluster. You can check the results of deduplication and compression by viewing the Deduplication and Compression Overview in the vSAN Capacity monitor.

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Just released: Top 10 VMworld 2017 Hands-on Labs

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Top VMworld 2017 Hands-on Labs now publicly available

Just released: Top 10 VMworld 2017 Hands-on Labs

Among the 150,000 VMs deployed during VMworld 2017, here are the Top 10 most popular Hands-on Labs. This is the perfect opportunity for you to learn about our latest and greatest products and solution

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Highlights from: The Extreme Performance Series…

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Highlights from: The Extreme Performance Series at VMworld 2017

Highlights from: The Extreme Performance Series…

Thank you to everyone who attended VMworld 2017 and especially those that participated in this year’s Extreme Performance Series. While the conference is wrapped up, the content created and presented there, is now available to everyone! So grab a chair and advance your performance skill set. Sessions Recordings Spread across four different VMworld tracks, you’ll find these sessions chalk full of […] The post Highlights from: The Extreme Performance Series at VMworld 2017 appeared first on…Read More

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New Veeam Availability Suite v10: Coming Soon

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New Veeam Availability Suite v10: Coming Soon

New Veeam Availability Suite v10: Coming Soon

Veeam is a software company headquarter in Baar, Switzerland with 255,000+ customers, 47,000 ProPartners, and 14,300 VCSP Partners that develops backup, disaster recovery and virtualization managem…Read More

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How to Install Veeam Availability Suite v9.5

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How to Install Veeam Availability Suite v9.5

How to Install Veeam Availability Suite v9.5

To hands-on backup and recovery solutions, I’ve downloaded Veeam Availability Suite from Veeam’s website, and want to install and test the enterprise level product, and as a blogger, I feel that I …Read More

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Getting a list of VDS Portgroups from the…

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Getting a list of VDS Portgroups from the vCenter Database

Getting a list of VDS Portgroups from the…

Disclaimer: this is not something for production environments (at least, I hope for your sake, GSS should be able to fix it), but more for test or homelab environments. Say your vCenter is broken. And I mean really really broken to the point where you… The post Getting a list of VDS Portgroups from the vCenter Database appeared first on VMGuru .

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Get Inbox drivers for Storage Controllers with…

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Get Inbox drivers for Storage Controllers with vSAN

Get Inbox drivers for Storage Controllers with…

If you are familiar with vSAN, you already know that the VCG is a “must follow” guide to success. In certain instances, deployments may use ESXi OEM/custom images based on internal policies or even personal preference. However, these type of images contain vendor specific tools, drivers, etc. One of the results from using such images … Continue reading Get Inbox drivers for Storage Controllers with vSAN

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Automating Swarm Creation with VIC 1.2

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Automating Swarm Creation with VIC 1.2

Automating Swarm Creation with VIC 1.2

By Patrick Daigle, Sr. Technical Marketing Architect, Cloud-Native Apps Introduction In version 1.2, vSphere Integrated Containers (VIC) introduced the concept of the native Docker Container Host (DCH). This is a built-in Docker image containing a full-fledged Docker engine that runs using VIC. DCH is packaged as a container and can be instantiated on VIC like any The post Automating Swarm Creation with VIC 1.2 appeared first on Cloud-Native Apps .

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