VCDX #181 Marc Huppert

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GPGPU Computing with the nVidia K80 on VMware…

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GPGPU Computing with the nVidia K80 on VMware vSphere 6

GPGPU Computing with the nVidia K80 on VMware…

As customer interest in running HPC workloads on vSphere continues to increase, I’ve been receiving more questions about whether compute accelerators like the nVidia K80 or Intel Xeon Phi can be used with vSphere VMs. The answer is that while VMware supports the VM Direct Path I/O feature (i.e., passthrough mode) that allows PCI […] The post GPGPU Computing with the nVidia K80 on VMware vSphere 6 appeared first on VMware | CTO Blog .

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Top 20 vRealize Operations Manager articles for…

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Top 20 vRealize Operations Manager articles for February 2016

Top 20 vRealize Operations Manager articles for…

Here is our Top 20 vRealize Operations Manager articles list for February 2016. This list is ranked by the number of times a VMware Support Request was resolved by following the steps in a published Knowledge Base article. Resetting the Administrator password in VMware vRealize Operations Manager appliance Update sequence for vSphere 6.0 and its […] The post Top 20 vRealize Operations Manager articles for February 2016 appeared first on Support Insider.

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VSAN 6.2 Part 9 – Replacing the witness appliance

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VSAN 6.2 Part 9 – Replacing the witness appliance

VSAN 6.2 Part 9 – Replacing the witness appliance

There might be a reason in VSAN stretched cluster environments or in 2-node VSAN ROBO deployments to change the witness appliance. The one thing to keep in mind is that you must use a witness appliance that has the same Continue reading → The post VSAN 6.2 Part 9 – Replacing the witness appliance appeared first on CormacHogan.com.

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Quick Tip – VSAN 6.2 (vSphere 6.0 Update 2) now…

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Quick Tip – VSAN 6.2 (vSphere 6.0 Update 2) now supports creating all-flash diskgroup using ESXCLI

Quick Tip – VSAN 6.2 (vSphere 6.0 Update 2) now…

One of my all time favorite features of VSAN is still the ability to be able to “bootstrap” a VSAN Datastore starting with just a single ESXi node. This is especially useful if you would like to bootstrap vCenter Server on top of VSAN out of the box without having to require additional VMFS/NFS storage. This bootstrap method has been […]

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Deep Dive: What’s New in Horizon 7

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Deep Dive: What’s New in Horizon 7 Registration

Deep Dive: What’s New in Horizon 7

Wondering what’s new in the latest Horizon update? Join Tony Paikeday, VMware Sr. Product Marketing Manager, for a 30-minute webcast on 3/10 where he’ll walk you through the latest update to the on-premises based desktop and app virtualization platform. Sign up here:

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Using vROps to Understand Your HP Server…

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Using vROps to Understand Your HP Server Landscapes

Using vROps to Understand Your HP Server…

By: Troy Bailey, Blue Medora When you begin your out-of-the-box deployment of VMware’s vRealize Operations Manager (vROps), you might find that getting detailed hardware and health information about your server compute environment is more difficult than you expected. Today, I would like to share with you a new wealth of custom dashboards that Blue Medora’s […] The post Using vROps to Understand Your HP Server Landscapes appeared first on VMware Cloud Management .

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vRealize Log Insight for 25 OSI included in…

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vRealize Log Insight for 25 OSI included in vCenter Standard!

vRealize Log Insight for 25 OSI included in…

Since March 2016, there are some changes in VMware licensing – e.g. vRealize Log Insight for 25 OSI is included in vCenter Standard! In my opinion, this is a very good VMware step as Log Insight is really a powerful syslog as I showed in this post already. Now, more customers can play with this solution and probably… Read More »

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Memory Reservation Reporting & Changing Values…

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Memory Reservation Reporting & Changing Values via PowerCLI

Memory Reservation Reporting & Changing Values…

I know there are many sources out there for setting values as far as limits are concerned (See Alan Renouf’s blog)with PowerCLI but I could not find anything about setting or removing reservations with commands found in PowerCLI. I would … Continue reading →

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How to safely delete “Zombie” VMDK files

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How to safely delete “Zombie” VMDK files

How to safely delete “Zombie” VMDK files

Hello, a lot of time I have came across of a lot of my customers have snapshots that are not displayed in the Snapshot manager. I tried a lot of time to skip this problem with consolidation of the Virtual Machine but in this scenario this solution seems that doesn’t work. In order to remove… Continue reading How to safely delete “Zombie” VMDK files

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Virtual SAN 6.2 Space Efficiency Technologies…

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Virtual SAN 6.2 Space Efficiency Technologies White Paper

Virtual SAN 6.2 Space Efficiency Technologies…

We’re happy to announce the Virtual SAN 6.2 Space Efficiency Technologies White Paper. I was fortunate to work on this along with Jeff Hunter and John Nicholson on this document. We cover some of the new additions to Virtual SAN in version 6.2 specifically around space efficiency. A couple of the new features that we The post Virtual SAN 6.2 Space Efficiency Technologies White Paper appeared first on Virtual Blocks.

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Experts Weigh In on Virtual SAN 6.2 Features &…

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Experts Weigh In on Virtual SAN 6.2 Features & Performance

Experts Weigh In on Virtual SAN 6.2 Features &…

VMware Virtual SAN is an enterprise-class, policy-driven storage solution for hyper-converged infrastructure optimized for vSphere virtual machines, delivering an efficient and cost-effective operational model. But don’t take our word for it – hear it from the experts themselves.

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Log Insight 3.3 is Available Now

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Log Insight 3.3 is Available Now

Log Insight 3.3 is Available Now

After a two month hiatus, I am back just in time for the GA release of Log Insight 3.3! I recently covered most of the new features here and while I plan on deep diving into all of them, I would like to start by talking about the upgrade procedure and what you need to […] The post Log Insight 3.3 is Available Now appeared first on SFlanders.net by Steve Flanders.

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Evolution of HCI: Future of All Flash Virtual SAN

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Evolution of HCI: Future of All Flash Virtual SAN

Evolution of HCI: Future of All Flash Virtual SAN

In his last blog post , Vijay Ramachandran described Virtual SAN’s biggest and most awaited edition till date – Virtual SAN 6.2. He also discussed the rationale behind why we invested in developing space efficiency features on All Flash only. Coincidentally, there was also a very good blog post from Howard Marks where he discussed the economics of All Flash and why he believes that All Flash is the future of storage.

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Thoughts & Experience around Expanding vROps…

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Thoughts & Experience around Expanding vROps Clusters

Thoughts & Experience around Expanding vROps…

Expanding your existing vRealize Operations Manager Clusters is an activity which you would definitely come across if you have started to operationalize your vRealize Operations Manager investments… Click on the title to continue reading the post..

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VSAN 6.2 : Sparse Swap, what is it good for?

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VSAN 6.2 : Sparse Swap, what is it good for?

VSAN 6.2 : Sparse Swap, what is it good for?

Advertise here with BSA I already briefly touched on Sparse Swap in my VSAN 6.2 launch article. When talking about space efficiency and VSAN 6.2 most people will immidiately bring up RAID-5/6 and/or deduplication and compression. Those of course are definitely the big ticket items for VSAN 6.2, there is no doubt. Sparse Swap however is one of those tiny […] ” VSAN 6.2 : Sparse Swap, what is it good for? ” originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com . Follow me on twitter – @DuncanYB.

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VCP6-DTM Objective 2.5 – Create ThinApp…

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VCP6-DTM Objective 2.5 – Create ThinApp applications and a ThinApp repository

VCP6-DTM Objective 2.5 – Create ThinApp…

Today’s objective will dive into Thinapps.VCP6-DTM Objective 2.5 – Create ThinApp applications and a ThinApp repository. ThinApp has been historically one of the software pieces present in Horizon View as it allows the software distribution across your domain architecture with central management through View admin console. ThinApp creates virtualized applications. InHorizon implementation, these virtual packages […] Read the full post VCP6-DTM Objective 2.5 – Create ThinApp applications and a…Read More

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VMware NSX: Appliance Deployment

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VMware NSX: Appliance Deployment

VMware NSX: Appliance Deployment

Hello, and welcome to what will probably be a series of posts about a topic that is way over my head. Hopefully this exercise will make me a bit better in what seems to be a weak point for me. Networking and Security. VMware NSX is the network virtualization platform for the Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC). […]

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