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Month: April 2018

vCenter High Availability Deep Dive – Part 2

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vCenter High Availability Deep Dive – Part 2

vCenter High Availability Deep Dive – Part 2

The first post in this series covered vCenter High Availability deployment types and considerations. Hopefully, by now you’ve gotten your VCHA cluster deployed and are ready to move on with some of the operational aspects such as backup & restore, patching, and upgrades to the VCHA cluster. The continuation of this blog series will dive into each feature The post vCenter High Availability Deep Dive – Part 2 appeared first on VMware vSphere Blog .

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Selecting IP Subnets for your SDDC

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Selecting IP Subnets for your SDDC

Selecting IP Subnets for your SDDC

This article will identify the different network subnets that come into play when planning your SDDC deployment and explain the primary considerations for the selection of new networks to be used within the SDDC, as well as identifying existing networks that will interact with the SDDC. The red numbers in this diagram correspond to the description paragraphs below.

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More vSphere 6.5 Installation & Upgrade…

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More vSphere 6.5 Installation & Upgrade Questions Answered

More vSphere 6.5 Installation & Upgrade…

Each month we deliver a free webcast on the latest tools and tips from our expert instructors and content developers. In November Ali Ahmad, a Sr. Technical Training Specialist with VMware Technical Support University, delivered vSphere 6.5 Install & Upgrade Troubleshooting and the questions were great as always. We pulled a few of them below, but you The post More vSphere 6.5 Installation & Upgrade Questions Answered appeared first on VMware Professional Services Insights .

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VMware ESXi 3.5 – 6.7 Hypervisor Size Comparison

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VMware ESXi 3.5 – 6.7 Hypervisor Size Comparison

VMware ESXi 3.5 – 6.7 Hypervisor Size Comparison

The VMware bare-metal hypervisor ESXi is in the market for over 10 years now. During that time it has been continuously refined and added with new features. Since vSphere 5.0, the hypervisor size is very constant and has not increased severely. In this … Read more »

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Export settings from vRops – Michael Ryom

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Export settings from vRops – Michael Ryom

Export settings from vRops – Michael Ryom

Have you ever wanted to export settings from vRops, either as a form of backup or to migrate to another installation? Then you know how cumbersome it can be to find all the settings and export them one by one and also remembering to get it all. To help me get this task done I have created this Powershell script which uses the vRops API to export the settings to xml files which can be easily be imported if or when needed. The list of settings being exported: ActionDefinitions AlertDefinitions…Read More

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Getting started with VMware Pivotal Container…

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Getting started with VMware Pivotal Container Service (PKS) Part 8: Monitoring Tool Overview

Getting started with VMware Pivotal Container…

I had received a few questions about the monitoring capabilities for VMware PKS and some of the VMware tools that can help provide visibility and audibility of the platform. Different consumers of PKS will care about different things, as you can imagine the cloud admin/platform operator is primarily concerned with the underlying infrastructure (compute, storage, network) including the […]

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VMworld Insider Update: April 2018

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VMworld Insider Update: April 2018

VMworld Insider Update: April 2018

Spring is in the air…and so is the excitement among the VMworld team, because registration opens in just two weeks! Read on to learn more about what’s happening behind the scenes. The post VMworld Insider Update: April 2018 appeared first on VMworld Blog .

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Horizon 7.4.1 is GA – Pay as You Go with…

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Horizon 7.4.1 is GA – Pay as You Go with Subscription is Here!

Horizon 7.4.1 is GA – Pay as You Go with…

This past week, VMware announced the General Availability of Horizon 7.4.1, which adds support for the recently announced Workspace ONE Enterprise subscription offer (see the “Win32 App Delivery” section of the announcement blog). The Workspace ONE Enterprise subscription offer allows customers the ability to license per user or device. Now, customers have the ability to […] The post Horizon 7.4.1 is GA – Pay as You Go with Subscription is Here! appeared first on VMware End-User Computing Blog .

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Installing vSAN

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Installing vSAN

Installing vSAN

What steps should I take to install vSAN? To install vSAN is fast and radically simple. However, there are some important considerations to take into account which are sometimes overlooked. The first and very important step is to check that the hardware to be used is vSAN ready nodes. But what are vSAN Ready The post Installing vSAN appeared first on VMware Professional Services Insights .

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Trying to passthrough 2 GPUs on a single VM? -…

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Trying to passthrough 2 GPUs on a single VM? – See what community members suggest for ESXi 6.5 on #VMTN

Trying to passthrough 2 GPUs on a single VM? -…

I’m trying to passthrough 2 Nvidia P100 on a single VM but I got a black screen and no logs for my VM. It works with 1 GPU but can’t figure out why it doesn’t work with 2.

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vCenter High Availability Deep Dive – Part 1

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vCenter High Availability Deep Dive – Part 1

vCenter High Availability Deep Dive – Part 1

vCenter High Availability (VCHA) was introduced in vSphere 6.5 in November 2016. Since that time the Technical Marketing team has spent a lot of time creating content and speaking about VCHA. Much of that content can be found on vSphere Central. Even with all that content, there are still some common questions and misconceptions regarding The post vCenter High Availability Deep Dive – Part 1 appeared first on VMware vSphere Blog .

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New Instant Clone Architecture in vSphere 6.7 -…

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New Instant Clone Architecture in vSphere 6.7 – Part 1

New Instant Clone Architecture in vSphere 6.7 -…

Instant Clone or VMFork (as it is referred internally) has been around for a number of years now. It was initially available as part of vSphere 6.0 with the primary consumer being Horizon View and their just-in-time desktop solution. Although Instant Clone was part of the core vSphere platform, public APIs were not available for external […]

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Announcing a New Gathering Place for Kubernetes…

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Announcing a New Gathering Place for Kubernetes + VMware

Announcing a New Gathering Place for Kubernetes…

by Steven Wong, Cloud Native Community Engagement Team Over the past few years, Kubernetes has become one of the largest and fastest-growing areas in open source software. A trend seen with open source projects is that as community participation increases, a project organizes itself into a hierarchy of smaller, focused groups. In the Kubernetes project, The post Announcing a New Gathering Place for Kubernetes + VMware appeared first on Cloud-Native Apps .

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How to recover vCenter Server while using vDS ?

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How to recover vCenter Server while using vDS ?

Important: How to recover vCenter server while using vDS What happens when you want to configure network settings of a VM directly from the ESXi host while using vDS, like changing the mapped port group for a VM? this action will not be allowed and you will be getting an error since vDS is only…Read More

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Migrating an Oracle RAC Cluster using Storage…

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Migrating an Oracle RAC Cluster using Storage vMotion to vSAN Storage – Private Investigation

Migrating an Oracle RAC Cluster using Storage…

Migrating an Oracle RAC Cluster using Storage vMotion to vSAN Storage – Private Investigation ” Give me ten men like Clouseau, and I can destroy the world…” said Former Chief Inspector Dreyfus about Inspector Jacques Clouseau and his incompetence, clumsy and chaotic detective skills This blog will not focus on the ‘how The post Migrating an Oracle RAC Cluster using Storage vMotion to vSAN Storage – Private Investigation appeared first on Virtualize Applications .

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