VMware vSphere & vSAN 8 General Availability Release Date Revised
With VMware’s release of vSphere & vSAN 8.0 imminent, VMware have made an announcement to amend the timeframe to allow themselves more quality assurance time. Read on to see more about the VMware lifecycle and how you can prepare for vSphere & vSAN 8.0.
VMware Explore 2022 Europe • Nolabnoparty
After two years due to COVID-19 pandemic, VMware returns to Europe with its biggest event now called VMware Explore 2022 bringing many interesting innovations.
Managing Multiple Tanzu Clusters using vSphere Console for K8s fling – Part II
Overview In my first blog post HERE I started test driving the Modern Application Platform tool (aka vSphere K8s Console fling) and went through the process of deploying and configuring the MAP appliance and UI and then I created a Tanzu cluster using MAP on top of TKGs as cluster provider. […]
Understanding Shared Prefix Lists for SDDC Groups in VMC on AWS
VMC on AWS now supports the capability to configure Shared Prefix Lists for SDDC Groups. This feature simplifies customer operations when resources in or connecting through AWS VPCs or connectivity attached to VMware Transit Connect. The VMC-managed prefix list can be configured […]
Virtually Speaking Podcast: Introducing VMware vSphere 8
This week on the Virtually Speaking Podcast Pete and John welcome Féidhlim O’Leary to discuss the details of this release.
vSAN 8 Original Storage Architecture vs Express Storage Architecture differences
vSAN 8 Original Storage Architecture vs Express Storage Architecture differences. A detailed look at the differences between OSA and ESA
Multitenancy in vSAN
Many have questions as to the viability of vSAN in environments where the platform is serving multiple tenants. These multitenant environments are common with service providers, who are typically familiar with the capabilities of a three tier architecture using storage arrays. This document details how vSAN can be used in these multitenant environments.
Thinking Far Beyond the Cloud
I found myself in a deeply technical Web 3.0 discussion with Pratima Arora, Chief Product Officer at Chainalysis and CBS Sunday Morning tech correspondent David Pogue.
My top 10 App Modernization sessions @ Explore Europe 2022
VMworld is now VMware Explore! Are your ready for the first European edition of this brand new event? From November 7-10 you’re welcome in the Fira Gran Via in Barcelona. More information & registration at the VMware Explore website. In this blogpost I would like to share my favourite App […]
VMware EXPLORE Barcelona 2022 – All You Need To Know
As you know, we’re heading to VMware EXPLORE Barcelona 2022 (7-10 November) this year so ESX Virtualization Blog readers will get some exclusive pictures, videos and news directly from the event as we plan to share everything on the blog and through social media. If you’re there and you want […]
Sub-NUMA Clustering
I’m noticing a trend that more ESXi hosts have Sub-NUMA Clustering enabled. Typically this setting is used in the High-Performance Computing space or Telco world, where they need to reduce every last millisecond of latency and squeeze out every bit of bandwidth the system can offer. Such […]
Windows 11 Inbox VMware drivers.
Windows 11 version 2H22, released September 20th 2022, now contains the VMware PVSCSI driver and VMware VMXNET3 driver as inbox drivers.
Understanding Route Filtering in VMC on AWS
VMC on AWS added the ability to configure route filtering. This feature enables customers to have additional control of the way their SDDC route tables are advertised to external entities through egress filtering. When enabled Route Filtering removes all networks connected to the Default CGW […]
vSphere 8 Core Storage – New Features!
During the VMware Explore US, the vSphere 8 has been announced. Now let’s have a look at some new core storage enhanced features. vVols Enhancements The new version of vSphere will bring NVMe over Fabrics (NVMeoF) support for vSphere Virtual Volumes (vVols). NVMe-oF provides […]
vSphere Datasets – New Virtual Machine Metadata Service in vSphere 8
Since the early days of Virtual Center and ESX, the only method for creating and sharing arbitrary metadata between the vSphere Management layer and the guest operating system was to use either guest variables (guestinfo) or the OVF runtime environment. While both of these capabilities have enabled a ton of interesting use cases and have […]
7 Considerations Before Your F5 Load Balancer Refresh
Learn what makes a great load balancer with the 7 Considerations Before Your F5 Load Balancer Refresh white paper.
Architecting a Cloud-Smart Strategy
Double-click into the concept of “cloud smart.” Take a closer look at the architectural evolution, from single-cloud to cross-cloud services. In today’s rapid pace of change, businesses that adapt quickly have a huge advantage. In multi-cloud environments, businesses gain agility for profound […]
vSphere vMotion Notifications
In this demo video, we will observe how vSphere vMotion notifications can delay a vMotion event allowing an application to better prepare for the migration.
Scalable, High-Performance Native Snapshots in the vSAN Express Storage Architecture
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Erasure Coding at the Performance of RAID-1 in the vSAN Express Storage Architecture (ESA)
Learn about how the vSAN ESA delivers RAID-5/6 erasure coding at the performance of RAID-1 mirroring.
