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VCP6-DTM Objective 3.4 – Build and Customize…

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VCP6-DTM Objective 3.4 – Build and Customize Desktop Images

VCP6-DTM Objective 3.4 – Build and Customize…

This lesson will teach us some tweaks on optimization of desktop images. VCP6-DTM Objective 3.4 – Build and Customize Desktop Images . VMware has an excellent utility (recently updated to support Windows 10) called VMware OS Optimization Utility . The tool can Analyze/Optimize locally, remote Analyze (not optimize). Has optimization history and rollback. It also can manage templates for different OS (Windows 7, W8.x, Windows Server 2008-2012).

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VCAP-DCV Deploy – Study Guide Series

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VCAP-DCV Deploy – Study Guide Series

VCAP-DCV Deploy – Study Guide Series

Since I hold a VCAP-DCD for 5.5, and want to upgrade to the VCIX-DCV 6, I have to study and take the VCAP-DCV Deploy test. Thankfully, VMware has made the process easy – I don’t have to upgrade the VCAP-DCD first to 6.0, as it will count towards my VCIX! So, in order to assist […] The post VCAP-DCV Deploy – Study Guide Series appeared first on Tim’s IT Blog .

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Virtual SAN Deployments Over L2/L3 Networks

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Virtual SAN Deployments Over L2/L3 Networks

Virtual SAN Deployments Over L2/L3 Networks

A new VMware Virtual SAN networking paper is now available. This paper focuses on the physical network and vSphere related technologies that are required to deploy Virtual SAN across Layer 2 and Layer 3 topologies.

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Hybrid vs All-flash VSAN, are we really getting…

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Hybrid vs All-flash VSAN, are we really getting close? (via Yellow Bricks)

Hybrid vs All-flash VSAN, are we really getting…

For the last 12 months people have been saying that all-flash and hybrid configurations are getting really close in terms of pricing. During the many conversations I have had with customers it became clear that this is not always the case when they requested quotes from server vendors and I wondered why. I figured I would go through the exercise myself to see how close we actually are and to what we are getting close.

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The future of the ESXi Embedded Host Client

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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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VMware vCenter Storage Monitoring Service &…

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VMware vCenter Storage Monitoring Service & Auto Deploy plug-in failed after upgrade to vSphere 6.0

VMware vCenter Storage Monitoring Service &…

Yesterday I did an upgrade of my vCenter Server Appliance 5.5 U3 to 6.0 U1. This was the first step to update my lab infrastructure to vSphere 6.0.A bit late, but better late than never. The update of the VCSA itself went smooth. No problems with certificates, hosts, VMs or PernixData FVP. But then, I […] Advertise here with BSA

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Using PowerCLI to Install Host VIBs

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Using PowerCLI to Install Host VIBs

Using PowerCLI to Install Host VIBs

So currently Cisco has an issue with installing their ENIC and FNIC VIBs through Update Manager for ESXi 6.x. Until that is resolved I need to manually push out patches to these hosts. Obviously I do not want to do this manually, so I will be utilizing PowerCLI to accomplish this task.

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VMware Virtual SAN 6.2 Space Efficiency…

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VMware Virtual SAN 6.2 Space Efficiency Technologies

VMware Virtual SAN 6.2 Space Efficiency…

Virtual SAN is natively integrated with vSphere and it is configured with just a few mouse clicks. Since disks internal to the vSphere hosts are used to create a Virtual SAN datastore, there is no dependency on external shared storage. Virtual machines can be assigned specific storage policies based on the needs of the applications. These workloads benefit from dependable shared storage predictable performance and availability characteristics. The new release of Virtual SAN, version 6.2,…Read More

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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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