VMware NSX-T: Distributed Routing & Centralized Routing
Routing Deep Dive on VMware’s NSX-T. NSX-T provides distributed routing (in kernel) for East-West traffic, centralized routing for North-South traffic.
How VMware IT Uses vSAN as Part of its Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Strategy
VMware IT team members Chanh Chi, Jerry Griffin, Tom Ralph, Larry Wong, and Zaigui Wang contributed to this article. vSAN has had tremendous customer adoption since its release, especially in large-scale deployments. Customers often want to know if VMware uses vSAN in its own mission-critical environments. The answer is absolutely. Some of the larger vSAN The post How VMware IT Uses vSAN as Part of its Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Strategy appeared first on VMware on VMware .
Why End User Computing is Undergoing Rapid Change
By Jason Conyard, Vice President, End User Services, VMware The VMware IT End User Services mission is straightforward: to enable our colleagues to do their best work by delivering a delightful technology experience. This translates to delivering a rich experience regardless of location or device. The challenge to accomplishing this is orchestrating adoption of the The post Why End User Computing is Undergoing Rapid Change appeared first on VMware on VMware .
Migration from legacy Windows operating systems to Windows 10 exceeds project goals—and teaches some valuable lessons
By Brooks Peppin, Information Systems Engineer, End User Services, VMware The enterprise community is quickly embracing Windows 10. Shortly after Windows 10 launched, VMware started migrating legacy Windows systems (7 and 8.1) for both on-site and remote employees as quickly as possible. As with any major transition of this nature, there were numerous challenges and The post Migration from legacy Windows operating systems to Windows 10 exceeds project goals—and teaches some valuable lessons…Read More
Assess performance impact of Spectre & Meltdown patches using vRealize Operations Manager
With this article, I wanted to share some quick tips and tricks which can help you manage the performance of your workloads while you go through the patching process for Spectre & Meltdown vulnerabilities. Before my recommendations, here are a few things which you should know about Spectre & Meltdown: What is Spectre & The post Assess performance impact of Spectre & Meltdown patches using vRealize Operations Manager appeared first on VMware Cloud Management .
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The NSX DLR and ARP Suppression | vswitchzero
ARP suppression is one of the key fundamental features in NSX that helps to make the product scalable. By intercepting ARP requests from VMs before they are broadcast out on a logical switch, the hypervisor can do a simple ARP lookup in its own cache or on the NSX control cluster. If an ARP entry…Read More
Upgrade Coordinator – VMware NSX for vSphere
This video includes a brief explanation and a detailed demo of the Upgrade Coordinator feature, introduced in NSX for vSphere 6.4.0
PowerCLI Offline Installation Walkthrough
Can you believe it? PowerCLI is closing in on a year of being in the PowerShell Gallery! We’re up to 20 different modules and, wait for it, over 2,000,000 downloads of those modules! As exciting as that is, there’s still quite a few questions on how to install PowerCLI to systems that do not have […] The post PowerCLI Offline Installation Walkthrough appeared first on VMware PowerCLI Blog .
Install ESXi 6.5 on R730 with Intel X710 – Brainstorm with others on a solution for vSAN here on #VMTN
After installing ESXi 6.0 , everything is okay. But, if I try to install ESXi 6.5 via “VMware-VMvisor-Installer-6.5.0-4564106.x86_64-Dell_Customized-A00” on Dell PowerEdge R730, my vmnic0 and vmnic1 (Intel X710 DP 10Gb DA/SFP+) are not working.
How to check if VXLAN Offload is active on Intel X540 NIC – See what others are doing for NSX on #VMTN
Does anyone know how to check if VXLAN Offload is enabled and active on Intel X540 10Gig NIC’s ? I use the ixgbe v4.5.2 driver on 6.5U1, which supports RSS and VXLAN Offload.
It’s Not Too Late to Get the Scoop on vSphere 6.5
Just before the new year, the VMware Community Roundtable podcast covered all the key insights to vSphere 6.5 in a live episode. In case you missed it, moderator Eric Nielsen discussed reasons to upgrade to vSphere 6.5 with the “dynamic duo” of vSphere: featured guests Himanshu Singh and Martin Yip. Singh is group manager of The post It’s Not Too Late to Get the Scoop on vSphere 6.5 appeared first on VMware vSphere Blog .
VMware Integrated OpenStack and Resource Schedulers Impacts – Part One – Overview
This post is part one of a series on VMware Integrated OpenStack and Resource Schedulers. Later posts will walk through each of the schedulers and how they affect the VIO Platform.TL;DRVMware Integrated OpenStack has several resource schedulers that mostly do not have knowledge of each other. Deep understanding of the various schedulers and their interactions is extremely helpful when designing, implementing, or operating a VIO-based cloud that is high-churn. There is nuance in how VMware…Read More
What’s new and how to one click upgrade to NSX 6.4.x ?
Today VMware released NSX 6.4.0. This version provides many features, improvements and bug fixes. What’s new in NSX 6.4.0? Following Release Notes we can find some interesting features and improvements. In my opinion, the most important: Upgrade Coordinator provides a single portal to simplify the planning and execution of an NSX upgrade. Upgrade Coordinator provides a complete system… Read More »
VMware: NSX: Logical Switch Objects as Source and Destination Firewall rules (DFW) not working and things to know.
One of the cool things w/ NSX is that you can define vCenter Objects as your source and destination targets in NSX’s Distributed Firewall (DFW). On the surface, great idea. Under the hood, it is still based on IP source and targets. Only when you decide upon a default deny/deny rule does this become apparent.
vSAN Operations: Using vRealize Operations and Log Insight
In the data center, “integration” is more than just a solution feature. VMware vRealize Operations, and vRealize Log Insight reap the benefits of vSAN.
Login VSI Announces Free Meltdown/Spectre Emergency Edition License
Login VSI is a software company that provides performance testing software for virtualized desktop environments such as Citrix XenApp, XenDesktop, Microsoft RDS and VMware Horizon View. Organizatio…Read More
IT infrastructure spending shifting toward cloud deployments | ZDNet
Traditional IT infrastructure spending is losing steam as private and public cloud build-outs accelerate, according to IDC.
Create and configure VMWare vSphere VSAN cluster step by step
VMware vSAN is a Hyper-Converged storage (Software Defined Storage) solutions with a vSphere-native, high-performance architecture. With software defined storage, it has opened new opportunities to…Read More
Performance impact after Spectre&Meltdown? | virtual graveyard
What is the performance loss in the VMware Hypervisor after applying the patches to fix the Spectre & Meltdown issue? VMware released a KB article where you will be informed when they have results of their performance analysis. Spectre & Meltdown: VMware Performance Impact Subscribe the KB article to be up tp date 😉
