VCDX #181 Marc Huppert

Month: September 2018

DRS Enhancements in vSphere 6.7

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DRS Enhancements in vSphere 6.7

DRS Enhancements in vSphere 6.7

A new paper describes the DRS enhancements in vSphere 6.7, which include new initial placement, host maintenance mode enhancements, DRS support for non-volatile memory (NVM), and enhanced resource pool reservations: DRS in vSphere 6.7 can now take advantage of the much faster placement and more accurate recommendations for all DRS configurations. vSphere 6.5 did not […] The post DRS Enhancements in vSphere 6.7 appeared first on VMware VROOM! Blog .

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HCI2164BU – HCI Management, current and futures

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HCI2164BU – HCI Management, current and futures

HCI2164BU – HCI Management, current and futures

Advertise here with BSA This session by Christian Dickmann and Junchi Zhang is usually one of my favorites in the HCI track, mainly because they show a lot of demos and in many cases show you what ends up being part of the product in 6-12 months. The session revolved all around management, or as they called it in the […] The post HCI2164BU – HCI Management, current and futures appeared first on Yellow Bricks .

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HCI2476BU – Tech Preview RDMA and next-gen…

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HCI2476BU – Tech Preview RDMA and next-gen storage tech for vSAN

HCI2476BU – Tech Preview RDMA and next-gen…

Advertise here with BSA This session I had high on my list to go and watch live. Unfortunately, I was double booked during the show, hence I had to watch “HCI2476BU – Tech Preview RDMA and next-gen storage tech for vSAN” online as well. This session was by my colleagues Biswa and Srinath (PM/Engineering) and discusses how we can […] The post HCI2476BU – Tech Preview RDMA and next-gen storage tech for vSAN appeared first on Yellow Bricks .

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HCI1998BU – Enable High-Capacity Workloads with…

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HCI1998BU – Enable High-Capacity Workloads with Elastic EBS-Backed vSAN on VMware Cloud

HCI1998BU – Enable High-Capacity Workloads with…

Advertise here with BSA I just watched the session by Rakesh and Peng on EBS backed vSAN. This session was high on my list to watch live at VMworld, but unfortunately, I couldn’t attend it due to various other obligations. If you are interested in the full session, make sure to watch it here, it is free. If you […] The post HCI1998BU – Enable High-Capacity Workloads with Elastic EBS-Backed vSAN on VMware Cloud appeared first on Yellow Bricks .

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Alternative to VDS Health Check

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Alternative to VDS Health Check – Michael Ryom

Alternative to VDS Health Check

If you have a large environment or a lot of VLANs you know that running with VDS Health check on, is not an option. This is due to the way VDS Health check works. It will sent out one packet per uplink per VLAN. Meaning if you have two uplinks and 20 VLAN, it will send out a total of 40 packets for that one host. Which is not that bad, but now scale it up to the kind of people which usually have and need the distributed switch and the number of VLANs is likely to be triple digit …Read More

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HCI1603BU – Tech Preview of Native vSAN Data…

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HCI1603BU – Tech Preview of Native vSAN Data Protection

HCI1603BU – Tech Preview of Native vSAN Data…

Advertise here with BSA The second session I watched was HCI1603BU Tech Preview of Native vSAN Data Protection by Michael Ng. I already discussed vSAN Data Protection last year, but considering the vSAN Beta is coming up soon that includes this functionality I felt it was worth covering again. Note that the beta will be a private beta, so […] The post HCI1603BU – Tech Preview of Native vSAN Data Protection appeared first on Yellow Bricks .

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Migrating Oracle Workloads to VMware Cloud on AWS

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Migrating Oracle Workloads to VMware Cloud on AWS

Migrating Oracle Workloads to VMware Cloud on AWS

Customers deploying Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) have requirements such as stringent SLAs, continued high performance, and application availability. It is a major challenge for business organizations to manage data storage in these environments due to these rigorous business requirement. Common issues presented when using traditional storage solutions for business-critical application (BCA) include inadequate performance, The post Migrating Oracle Workloads to VMware Cloud on AWS…Read More

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VMworld Video: vSphere 6.7 Clustering Deep Dive

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VMworld Video: vSphere 6.7 Clustering Deep Dive

VMworld Video: vSphere 6.7 Clustering Deep Dive

Advertise here with BSA As all videos are posted for VMworld (and nicely listed by William), I figured I would share the session Frank Denneman and I presented. It ended up in the Top 10 Sessions on Monday, which is always a great honor. We had a lot of positive feedback and comments, thanks for that! Most importantly, it […] The post VMworld Video: vSphere 6.7 Clustering Deep Dive appeared first on Yellow Bricks .

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VMware CEO: A Virtual Machine Is Still the Best…

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VMware CEO: A Virtual Machine Is Still the Best Place to Run Kubernetes

VMware CEO: A Virtual Machine Is Still the Best…

It was not vSphere which took center stage during Monday morning’s keynote session at VMware’s VMworld 2018 conference in Las Vegas. While it’s clear the virtual machine environment and its supporting ecosystem won’t just disappear (no such widely deployed platform ever has), Monday resolutely answered the question of which principal strategy VMware intends to pursue, …

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UI Confusion: VM Dependency Restart Condition…

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UI Confusion: VM Dependency Restart Condition Timeout

UI Confusion: VM Dependency Restart Condition…

Advertise here with BSA Various people have asked me, and I wrote about this before in several articles but as part of a longer article which makes it difficult to find. When specifying the restart priority or restart dependency you can specify when the next batch of VMs should be powered on. Is that when the VMs are powered […] The post UI Confusion: VM Dependency Restart Condition Timeout appeared first on Yellow Bricks .

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Home Lab Power Automation – Part 3

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Home Lab Power Automation – Part 3

Home Lab Power Automation – Part 3

In part 2, I shared the PowerCLI scripting I used to power on my entire lab environment in the correct order. In this final installment, I’ll take you through the scripting used to power everything down. Although you may think the process is just the reverse of what I covered in part 2, you’ll see..

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VMware vSphere 6.7 U1 Announced

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VMware vSphere 6.7 U1 Announced

VMware vSphere 6.7 U1 Announced

VMware has announced, during VMworld Las Vegas, a new major update to their flagship virtualization product, VMware vSphere 6.7 U1. This release has some major enhancements so here is our post which details that. One of the first ones which will touch every user is perhaps the fact that the HTML 5 web client is […] Read the full post VMware vSphere 6.7 U1 Announced at ESX Virtualization .

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Taking Notes: Higher Education Trends at…

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Taking Notes: Higher Education Trends at VMworld 2018

Taking Notes: Higher Education Trends at…

On a late-August Sunday afternoon as many students headed back to their respective college campuses, Aaron Colley, Manager, Digital Workspace Services at Auburn University told a Higher Education Workshop audience, “The efficiency, mobility, and visibility VMware technology gives us is what allows me to be here today, speaking to you at VMworld in Las Vegas, The post Taking Notes: Higher Education Trends at VMworld 2018 appeared first on VMware Industry Solutions .

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In the Works – Amazon RDS on VMware

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In the Works – Amazon RDS on VMware

In the Works – Amazon RDS on VMware

Database administrators spend a lot of time provisioning hardware, installing and patching operating systems and databases, and managing backups. All of this undifferentiated heavy lifting keeps the lights on but often takes time away from higher-level efforts that have a higher return on investment. For many years, has taken care of this heavy lifting, and […]

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VMworld 2018 Las Vegas Highlights

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VMworld 2018 Las Vegas Highlights

VMworld 2018 Las Vegas Highlights

VMworld 2018 Las Vegas is a wrap! vSAN team had a whirlwind of activities: from vSAN party to Keynote Session, to HCI Zone demos, to many breakout sessions and panels… Today vSAN has more than 15000 customers and enjoying a tremendous growth just within short 5 years it has been launched. Many customers and The post VMworld 2018 Las Vegas Highlights appeared first on Virtual Blocks .

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