What Partners Need to Know about HCI Acceleration

What Partners Need to Know about HCI Acceleration

What Partners Need to Know about HCI Acceleration

Hyperconverged infrastructure is a key component of a company’s strategy to effectively deal with dynamic growth and change, and partners now have to be able to support a growing number and a variety of organizations in effectively leveraging and expanding their use of the technology.


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VMware Skyline

VMware Skyline

VMware Skyline

VMware Skyline was announced at VMworld US 2017, however it did not get much press. I was listening to the VMware Communities Roundtable podcast from this week, where Skyline was the subject. I was impressed with the vision of Skyline to be a pro-active and predictive support platform for VMware customers. What caught my attention, […]


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Using PowerCLI to Create a Local Scratch Partition

Using PowerCLI to Create a Local Scratch Partition

Using PowerCLI to Create a Local Scratch Partition

My company recently purchased some Dell Servers with ESXi installed to local SD cards. The issue we had was that the 8gb SD cards that came with the server and there wasn’t enough space on the cards for a scratch partition. We ordered the servers with a single 300gb HD in order to get the RAID controller, so we decided to use that drive to store a scratch partition. The first step in the process, was to convert the drive


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vSphere Deprecation Announcements

vSphere Deprecation Announcements

vSphere Deprecation Announcements

VMware recently announced plans to deprecate several of its vSphere products: vCenter Server for Windows, Flash-Based vSphere Web Client, and vmkLinux APIs. The content and links below provide an overview of the deprecation, migration plan, and helpful resources. vCenter Server for Windows VMware plans to deprecate vCenter Server for Windows with the next numbered release (not […] The post vSphere Deprecation Announcements appeared first on VMware Tech Alliances (TAP) Blog .


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Cloud security market to reach $12B by 2024,…

Cloud security market to reach $12B by 2024, driven by rise of cyber attacks

Cloud security market to reach $12B by 2024,…

The growing use of cloud services for data storage and increasing sophistication of cyber attacks will lead the cloud security market to rise from $1.4B in 2016 to $12B in 2024.


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Ensuring Good with VMware AppDefense

Ensuring Good with VMware AppDefense

Ensuring Good with VMware AppDefense

co-author Geoff Wilmington Traditional data center end-point security products focus on detecting and responding to known bad behavior. There are hundreds of millions of disparate malware attacks, with over a million getting added every day. In addition, there is the threat of zero-day attacks exploiting previously unknown vulnerabilities. It becomes a never-ending race to “chase The post Ensuring Good with VMware AppDefense appeared first on Network Virtualization .


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How to Configure Freesco Virtual Router on…

How to Configure Freesco Virtual Router on vSphere 6.0

How to Configure Freesco Virtual Router on…

FREESCO, a NAT/firewall router/server based on Linux and available for free under GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPLv2) in .OVA format. Freesco is very powerful and versatile and can conne…Read More


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Improving workload performance with DRS and…

Improving workload performance with DRS and vROps 6.6

Improving workload performance with DRS and…

The DRS Dilemma. vSphere’s Distributed resource scheduler has long been a part of our data centers, keeping an ever vigilant watch over our hosts and their workloads. Distributed resource scheduler, or DRS for short, is responsible for choosing the best host for each of our virtual machines to run on. When you deploy a new VM, DRS is there for the initial placement. When a cluster is out of balance or a host is running low on resources,


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[New Book] Storage Design and Implementation in…

[New Book] Storage Design and Implementation in vSphere 6 ships July 24, 2017

[New Book] Storage Design and Implementation in…

After 2 long years of working on my new book “Storage Design and Implementation in vSphere 6” it has finally been published on July 24, 2017. I revised the content of the first edition …Read More


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PowerCLI Collection: PowerNSX Desktop Jumpstart…

PowerCLI Collection: PowerNSX Desktop Jumpstart and process YAML (yml) config file | Pascal’s Wereld on WordPress.com

PowerCLI Collection: PowerNSX Desktop Jumpstart…

In my last blog post (https://pascalswereld.nl/2017/08/24/nsx-for-desktop-jumpstart-microsegmentation-with-horizon-service-installer-fling/) I wrote about using the Horizon Service Installer fling for adding Horizon services to NSX for Desktop. From that blog post I have been evolving the services file with services and rules that will normally appear in an EUC solution with VMware products. Not just sticking with Horizon 7,…Read More


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vDocumentation: Check Out These Scripts To…

vDocumentation: Check Out These Scripts To Automate Your Documentation!

vDocumentation: Check Out These Scripts To…

Now that VMworld 2017 US has come to a close, many of the sessions are already up on youtube to watch. One of the ones I watched yesterday was SER2077BU – Achieve Maximum vSphere Stability with PowerCLI Assisted Documentation. My friend, Ariel Sanchez Mora (@arielsanchezmor), and his friend, Edgar Sanchez (@EdmSanchez13), put together these scripts to automatically document your environment. I HIGHLY recommend you check these scripts out! Also, please send them a tweet or DM as they’re…Read More


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SCSI Sense Code Decoder OP Code Update

SCSI Sense Code Decoder OP Code Update

SCSI Sense Code Decoder OP Code Update

I’ve added a new feature to my online SCSI Sense Code Decoder. It is now possible to enter the Command that has been reported to be failed into the form. The command is displayed in the error message and can … Read more »


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