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VM serial logging to the rescue for capturing Nested ESXi PSOD

VM serial logging to the rescue for capturing…

Ifrequently deploy pre-releases of our software to help test and provide early feedback to our Engineering teams. One piece ofsoftware thatI deploy some whatfrequently is our ESXi Hypervisor and the best way to deployit, is of course inside of aVirtual Machine or commonlyreferred to as Nested ESXi. Most recently while testing a new ESXi build […]]> http://www.virtuallyghetto.com/2016/03/vm-serial-logging-to-the-rescue-for-capturing-nested-esxi-psod.html/feed 0 Getting started with the new…Read More

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Enable/Disable VAAI Manual-Scripted

Enable/Disable VAAI Manual-Scripted

What is VAAIVMware vSphere Storage APIs – Array Integration (VAAI), also referred to as hardware acceleration or hardware offload APIs, are a set of APIs to enable communication between VMware vSph…Read More

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Four New Courses on VMware’s Most Powerful Technologies (via Virtualization The Future)

Four New Courses on Some of VMware’s Most…

Start strengthening your vRealize Automation, App Volumes, Virtual SAN, and NSX skills today. – See more at: http://virtualization24x7.blogspot.in/2016/03/four-new-courses-on-some-of-our-most.html#sthash.T3G4rnjs.dpuf

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New release: #PowerCLI 6.3 R1–Download it today! https://t.co/wNxYkXU6bi

New release: #PowerCLI 6.3 R1–Download it…

New release: #PowerCLI 6.3 R1–Download it today! https://t.co/wNxYkXU6bi

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Maintenance Mode Improvements in vSphere 6.0 Update 2

Maintenance Mode Improvements in vSphere 6.0…

vSphere 6.0 Update 2 has launched and with it comes a very simple change with the way that VMs and Templates are evacuated from hosts that enter Maintenance Mode. In all prior versions, when a host enters Maintenance Mode, DRS will evacuate the host by placing all the running VMs, powered off VMs, and the […] The post Maintenance Mode Improvements in vSphere 6.0 Update 2 appeared first on VMware vSphere Blog .

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Use PowerCLI to upgrade vSphere

Use PowerCLI to upgrade vSphere

So today marked the release of vSphere 6.0 U2. This is pretty cool because it adds the vSphere Host Web Client. A much-needed upgrade if you speak to administrators of a vSphere environment. I have a small lab of around 16 hosts. It forms my miniature lab that allows me to test and scale NSX … Continue reading “Use PowerCLI to upgrade vSphere”

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VMware Host Client 1.0 is now GA

VMware Host Client 1.0 is now GA

On behalf of the VMware Host Client team, I am pleased to announce that the VMware Host Client v1.0 is GA and shipping with vSphere update 6.0U2. VMware Host Client overview The VMware Host Client is an HTML5-based UI client that is used to connect to and manage single ESXi hosts. It can be used […] The post VMware Host Client 1.0 is now GA appeared first on VMware vSphere Blog .

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What’s inside VMware vSphere 6.0 Update 2

What’s inside VMware vSphere 6.0 Update 2

VMware has just released vSphere 6.0 Update 2. Together with the Updates, the following product updates were released today: VMware ESXi 6.0 U2 [Release Notes] [Download] VMware vCenter Server 6.0 U2 [Release Notes] [Download] VMware vCloud Automation Center Application Services … Read more »

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How to perform LUN masking in ESXi host

How to perform LUN masking in ESXi host

Normally LUN masking is done by storage admin at storage level. but if vSphere Admin want to do masking for LUN then it is also possible. Lets see how. Part 1 Login into ESXi host via Putty Go to >… Continue Reading →

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vSphere Beta coming soon…. (via Yellow Bricks)

vSphere Beta coming soon…. (via Yellow Bricks)

If you are one of those guys (or girls of course) who likes to stay on top of his (or her) game, wouldn’t it be nice to be able to test the upcoming vSphere Beta? I know I got excited about all the cool new functionality that is introduced in it. I can’t share any details unfortunately it is a private beta and those details can only be shared under NDA… However, the Beta is open for everyone to register. So if you have a home-lab, a lab at work, you want to test stuff nested… Make sure to sign up here: VMware vSphere Beta Interest Capture.

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VxRail First Impressions, Installation, Configuration (part 1)

VxRail First Impressions, Installation,…

Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) is the cool kid of the block at the moment, and proof of this is that big name companies like Cisco and EMC/VCE have recently announced their own solutions in this space to compete with market leader Nutanix.

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Now available as Rough Cut – Essential Virtual SAN (VSAN): Administrator’s Guide to VMware Virtual SAN, Second Edition

Now available as Rough Cut – Essential Virtual…

Fully updated for the newest versions of VMware Virtual SAN, this guide show how to scale VMware’s fully distributed storage architecture to meet any enterprise storage requirement. World-class Virtual SAN experts Cormac Hogan and Duncan Epping thoroughly explain how Virtual SAN integrates into vSphere 6.x and enables the Software Defined Data Center (SDDC). You’ll learn how to take full advantage of Virtual SAN, and get up-to-the-minute insider guidance for architecture, implementation, and management.

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Submarine Uses VMware Data Centre To Control Torpedoes (via TechWeekEurope)

Submarine Uses VMware Data Centre To Control…

HMS Artful’s ‘Common Control System’ is a miniature data centre from Vmware and Dell that tracks targets

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Applying Custom Attributes beyond just Host & Virtual Machine Objects

Applying Custom Attributes beyond just Host &…

I recently came to learn about a neat little tidbit from one of my readers, Ziad, regarding vSphere Custom Attributes. I had been a long time user of Custom Attributes when I was a customer and heavily used it in-conjunction with Automation. This is how many of our customers leveraged this capability, especially around provisioning and reporting use cases. Custom Attributes […]

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Cormac Hogan presents a sequence of events an admin may have to run through when scaling 2-node #VSAN to 3-node or more: http://vmw.re/24Rc9Zq

Cormac Hogan presents a sequence of events an…

Cormac Hogan presents a sequence of events an admin may have to run through when scaling 2-node #VSAN to 3-node or more: http://vmw.re/24Rc9Zq

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Virtual Machine Workload with vscsiStats

Virtual Machine Workload with vscsiStats

How to determining the I/O characteristics of a VM workload. You can use “vscsiStats” command to get all the details. Now how to use this command 1. First login into ESXi host via putty. 2. G…Read More

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How to recreate missing VMDK file

How to recreate missing VMDK file

Recently when I was working, I came across an issue wherein I was not able to perform svMotion from one datastore to another. I then realised that the issue was with the missing vmdk file. All of you must be aware that the virtual disk has two components associated with it. One is the descriptor […] The post How to recreate missing VMDK file appeared first on Enterprise Daddy.

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An Overview of Blue Medora’s “Oracle on VMware” Solutions! (via vXpress)

An Overview of Blue Medora’s “Oracle on VMware”…

More and more of Blue Medora’s customers are choosing to run their Oracle workloads on VMware. This choice comes with spectacular benefits such as server consolidation and licensing savings, as well as new challenges. One of the biggest challenges is effectively monitoring the Oracle workloads in context of the underlying VMware layers. Blue Medora has created solutions to address this specific pain point of virtualization, which helps you keep your Oracle environments running smoothly.

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vSphere 6 esxtop troubleshooting poster

vSphere 6 esxtop troubleshooting poster

The VMware esxtop tool provides a real-time view (updated every five seconds, by default) of ESXi Server worlds. The term world refers to processes running on the VMkernel. Andreas Lesslhumer over at running-system.com has released a great vSphere 6 toubleshooting resource, it’s a poster shwoing all the esxtop information and their best practice values. You can get your copy here . ]]>

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The future of the ESXi Embedded Host Client (via Virtually Ghetto)

The future of the ESXi Embedded Host Client

As many of you know, the ESXi Embedded Host Client project is something that is very near and dear to my heart. I have always felt that we needed a simple web interface that customers can just point their web browser to an ESXi host after a new installation and be able to quickly get started. One […]

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