VMware Announces General Availability of vSphere 6.5!
Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of VMware vSphere 6.5 along with new releases of other SDDC components: VMware vSAN 6.5, VMware vRealize Automation 7.2, VMware vRealize Log Insight 4 and VMware vRealize Operations 6.4. Together, these products help IT more efficiently run, manage, and secure their applications both on- or off-premises.
[Video] See how VMware’s Cross-Cloud Architecture gives you both freedom AND control in your IT infrastructure
See how VMware’s Cross-Cloud Architecture helps you avoid cloud silos, giving you both freedom and control in IT infrastructure.
Explore & play with the latest Flings from VMware!
Flings are apps and tools built by our engineers that are intended to be played with and explored.
There’s a lab for that! Test drive VMware products in minutes with Hands-on Labs
No plans this weekend? Try VMware products from the convenience of your browser in mere minutes, via hands-on labs!
vSphere 6.5 Feature Preview: vCenter High Availability – have you tried reinstalling?
One of the most anticipated features of vSphere 6.5 is native high availability for vCenter Server. No additional product like vCenter Server Heartbeat or no third party feature like MSCS/WFCS is needed.
Downloading and installing VIC
This video tutorial is about everything you need to know in order to download and install vSphere Integrated Containers in your environment.
VMware vSphere 6.5 – HTML5 Web Client and More – ESX Virtualization
vSphere 6.5 brings HTML 5 web client, but this one does not cover all features and functions just yet. Again. Why is VMware releasing a vSphere 6.5 without complete HTML5 based web client management, is unknown. A complexity? Perhaps.
VMware ESXi Queue Depth – Overview, Configuration And Calculation – teimouri.net
Queues are often misrepresented as the very “bane of our existence” and yet queues restore some order of semblance to our chaotic life.
VCSA alarm for VCDB space utilization in vSphere 6.5 – virtuallyGhetto
With prior releases of the vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA), there was little to no visibility to the underlying vCenter Server Database (VCDB) which uses an embedded vPostgres Database.
[Video] VMware vSphere 6.0 Content Libraries – Creating Content Library
This video will help you understand the process of creating a new content library (a new feature added to vSphere 6.0) to manage overall content.
vSphere visibility for Network Team – virtual red dot
Similar to the problem face between Storage Team and Platform Team, VMware Admin needs to reach out to Network Team. vRealize Operations can aid in that effort with a set of purpose-built dashboards.
Things you should know (TYSK) – Content Library Permissions – vBrain.info
This post is about Content Library permissions and how to set them correctly. This post is also part of the Thing you should know series.
Network Virtualization: The Bridge to the Future -VMware Radius
Network virtualization offers the solution to solving today’s most challenging networking issues—and tomorrow’s, too.
Quickly Identify Whether My Virtual Machines Get All CPU Resources They Need – Share IT!
One of the capability brings by virtualization is the ability to run several virtual machines in one physical machine. This ability may lead to something called over provisioned, where we provisioned resources to VMs more than what we have in the physical layer.
SAP HANA on vSphere 6 on Intel Xeon Broadwell – now supported! – VMware Blogs
Just on time for SAP TechED 2016 in Barcelona, I am happy to announce that we have just finished the vSphere 6 SAP HANA on Intel Xeon Broadwell CPU certification!
Expandable Reservation for Resource Pools – VMware Blogs
One of the questions I was often asked about resource pools (RP) is ‘Expandable reservation’. What is expandable reservation, and why should I care about it? Although it sounds intuitive, it can be easily misunderstood.
vCenter Server Database retention purge schedule – virtuallyGhetto
The size of your vCenter Server Database is largely based on the amount events/tasks and performance statistics that you retain for your vSphere environment.
Connecting a VPN between AWS and VMware NSX – VMGuru
Amazon Web Services has a few ways of giving you connectivity: internet, Direct Connect (a physical line) and VPN. While AWS has a ton of examples for firewall/VPN vendors, there is none for connecting with NSX. I needed to connect a NSX network with AWS for a proof of concept and had to figure out how to configure AWS and what settings to use on the NSX Edge VPN. Behold, the fruits of my labor!
vSphere visibility for Network Team – virtual-red-dot.info
This post continues from the Operationalize Your World post. Do read it first so you get the context.
Updates to VMDK partitions & disk resizing in VCSA 6.5 – virtuallyGhetto
Similiar to the vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) 6.0 release, the new VCSA 6.5 is also composed of multiple virtual machine disks (VMDKs).
