VCDX #181 Marc Huppert

Author: Marc Huppert

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Dear old ESXTOP aka How to schedule ESXTOP…

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How to schedule ESXTOP batch mode

Dear old ESXTOP aka How to schedule ESXTOP…

Recently I had to record a night activity of a specific VM running on a specific host for troubleshooting reasons because vCenter data wasn’t just enough for that. Using a number of blog posts around from Duncan Epping and others (it was many, I don’t even have the links anymore) I’ve put up my personal guide about how to take over this task because every time it’s like I have to start from scratch so I decided to document it.

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VMware Tools 10.0.0 Released

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VMware Tools 10.0.0 Released

VMware Tools 10.0.0 Released

An announcement we made during our repeat session “INF5123 – Managing vSphere Deployments and Upgrades – Part 2” at VMworld last week, was that VMware Tools 10.0.0 was released and is available for download in MyVMware. Wait… I thought VMware tools only shipped with each ESXi build…? Good news. We have decided that there isn’t […] The post VMware Tools 10.0.0 Released appeared first on VMware vSphere Blog .

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“The latest version of Horizon 6.2 has numerous…

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“The latest version of Horizon 6.2 has numerous upgrades that make it a must-have for those using VDI”

“The latest version of Horizon 6.2 has numerous…

“The latest version of Horizon 6.2 has numerous upgrades that make it a must-have for those using VDI” http://t.co/PTfF7JKvHd -@VirtReview

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Virtual SAN 6.1 introduces the new feature…

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Virtual SAN 6.1 introduces the new feature Stretched Cluster. Virtual SAN Stretched Clusters provides customers..

Virtual SAN 6.1 introduces the new feature…

Virtual SAN 6.1 introduces the new feature Stretched Cluster. Virtual SAN Stretched Clusters provides customers… http://t.co/rZNnDvnPoP

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How many Fault Domains?

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How many Fault Domains?

How many Fault Domains?

Some weeks ago I was involved in a discussion with a customer on their design around fault domains. There was an interesting scenario which was proposed and I was asked for my opinion or validation of the aproach. Before I talk about the solution let me re-cap what Fault Domains in VSAN are. The default storage policy in VSAN is to maintain 2 equal copies of a data object and 1 witness of metadata object, we call this Failures to Tolerate = 1. Traditionally, these objects would be automatically distributed across a separate host in the cluster allowing for the loss of 1 host, disk or other component in the cluster. This loss would only result in the VM’s compliance being negatively reported until the rebuild operation has completed and…Read More

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Technical Introduction to Access Point for…

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Technical Introduction to Access Point for Secure Remote Access

Technical Introduction to Access Point for…

By Mark Benson, Senior Architect and Senior Staff Engineer, End-User-Computing CTO Office, VMware In this post I will give an overview of Access Point, the new VMware virtual appliance introduced with Horizon 6 version 6.2. I will describe the main features and then drill down a little into deployment, security, high availability (HA), and scalability. […] The post Technical Introduction to Access Point for Secure Remote Access appeared first on VMware End-User Computing Blog .

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Using nVidia GPGPU Compute Acceleration with…

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Using nVidia GPGPU Compute Acceleration with ESX 6.0

Using nVidia GPGPU Compute Acceleration with…

As was mentioned in a previous blog post , accelerator cards are becoming increasingly common in HPC environments and so it is important that we assess the performance of such cards with ESX. Thank you very much to Na Zhang for all of her work on the following. In this post, we share the results of running the Scalable HeterOgeneous Computing ( SHOC ) benchmark and a CUDA-enabled version of the LAMMPS molecular dynamic program on ESX 6.0. We used a loaner nVidia Grid K2 card for this test to…Read More

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How to Efficiently Synchronize, Import and…

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How to Efficiently Synchronize, Import and Export Content in VMware vSphere Content Library

How to Efficiently Synchronize, Import and…

By Joanna Guan and Davide Bergamasco In a prior post we assessed the performance of VMware vSphere Content Library, focusing on the instantiation of a virtual machine from an existing library. We considered various scenarios and provided virtual infrastructure administrators with some guidelines about the selection of the most efficient storage backing based on a […] The post How to Efficiently Synchronize, Import and Export Content in VMware vSphere Content Library appeared first on VMware…Read More

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