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StorageReview.com VSAN Series

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StorageReview.com VSAN Series

StorageReview.com VSAN Series

StorageReview.com VSAN Series | Our colleagues at StorageReview.com are midway through a great extended review of VSAN 6, worth reading if you’re interested in the technical details. In “VMware Virtual SAN Review: Overview and Configuration” the reviewer notes that “deploying and configuring VSAN is a simple process for those used to working in a virtualized environment, and especially for those that are familiar with vSphere”. In “VMware Virtual SAN Review: VMmark Performance”, the choice of benchmark is interesting, as VMmark is usually seen as a compute and memory test — however, when considering hyperconverged storage, server resource utilization becomes important. The reviewer was able to load up an impressive 18 times on a modest,…Read More

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Microsoft Visio connector point and VMware…

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Microsoft Visio connector point and VMware Fusion fix

Microsoft Visio connector point and VMware…

In episode 2 of the vhorizon podcast I talk to Jason Mattox CTO of Liquidware Labs about Stratosphere FIT and the new updates to ProfileUnity and FlexApp. To find out more about Liquidware Labs head over to liquidwarelabs.com

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Getting To Know the Mirage Tools

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Getting To Know the Mirage Tools

Getting To Know the Mirage Tools

By Stephane Asselin, Senior End-User-Computing Architect, VMware With significant contributions from Yaniv Weinberg, Research and Development Manager, Mirage Product Engineering, VMware We know that the VMware Mirage product handles image management and application deployment to physical endpoints very well. But in the last few months, the Mirage team released some tools to make the Mirage […]

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HP wasn’t ready to split

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HP wasn’t ready to split

HP wasn’t ready to split

Yesterday I was trying to download HP Service Pack for ProLiant (SPP) from HP.COM website. It didn’t work at all – still some HTTP errors. Finally I found out that HP moved all its stuff to new domain hpe.com (HP Enterprise). That’s fine, but they forgot to rewrite all urls on websites to new hpe.com. […]]> http://www.cievo.sk/2015/08/04/hp-wasnt-ready-to-split/feed/ 0 Upgrade na Windows 10 http://www.cievo.sk/2015/07/31/upgrade-na-windows-10/…Read More

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Snapshot “issue” in VMware vSphere 6.0

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Snapshot “issue” in VMware vSphere 6.0

Snapshot “issue” in VMware vSphere 6.0

If you have installed (or upgraded to) VMware vSphere 6.0 and you still use the old legacy vSphere client you may have some false positives about VM snapshots. All VMs seems to have some snapshots, also if they don’t (and using consolidate does not fix it, because there aren’t snapshots to be fixed). But this apper only with the Windows vSphere Client: Is a cosmetics bug rather than a real issue, but using this client you cannot understand from a first look which VM has a snapshot and which…Read More

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VCA and VCP Retirements Coming in September,…

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VCA and VCP Retirements Coming in September, November

VCA and VCP Retirements Coming in September,…

With the release of the new VMware Certified Associate 6 (VCA6) and VMware Certified Professional 6 (VCP6) exams and certifications, we are announcing the retirement of several older exams and certifications in the coming months. September 30, 2015 Retirements VCAC510: VMware Certified Associate – Cloud (VCA-Cloud) Exam and Certification VCAW510: VMware Certified Associate – Workforce Mobility (VCA-WM) Exam and Certification November […]

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Breaking the VMware ESXi 5.5 ACPI boot loop on…

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Breaking the #VMware ESXi 5.5 ACPI boot loop on Lenovo TD350

Breaking the VMware ESXi 5.5 ACPI boot loop on…

Do you have a Lenovo TD350 or for that many other servers that when trying to load or run VMware vSphere ESXi 5.5 u2 (or other versions) and run into the boot loop at the “Initializing ACPI ” point? The symptoms are that you see ESXi start its boot process, loading drivers and modules (e.g. black screen), then you see the Yellow boot screen with Timer and Scheduler initialized, and at the “Initializing ACPI ” point, ka boom, either a boot loop starts (e.g. the above processes repeats after system boots). The fix is actually pretty quick and simple, finding it took a bit of time, trial and error.

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Announcing Virtual SAN Health Check Plugin 6.0…

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Announcing Virtual SAN Health Check Plugin 6.0 Patch 1

Announcing Virtual SAN Health Check Plugin 6.0…

Announcing some important news for VSAN 6.0 users, especially those using the VSAN Health Check Plugin. If you are using the Virtual SAN Health Check Plugin version 6.0 (and if you use Virtual SAN 6.0, you definitely should be using Continue reading → The post Announcing Virtual SAN Health Check Plugin 6.0 Patch 1 appeared first on CormacHogan.com.

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Reducing the Impact of Backups and Restores on…

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Reducing the Impact of Backups and Restores on FlashArrays

Reducing the Impact of Backups and Restores on…

One of the things that is not widely known out there about backup and restore operations is that SQL Server will typically default them to a 1 megabyte IO size. This canbe great for some environments, but it’s suboptimal for shared all-flash arrays. In this post, I’d like to show you some tests I performedsurrounding Continue Reading

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SRM with VMAX 20K Part VIII: Configuring EMC…

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SRM with VMAX 20K Part VIII: Configuring EMC Virtual Storage Integrator

SRM with VMAX 20K Part VIII: Configuring EMC…

This is a very short and sweet post about implementing the EMC Virtual Storage Integrator (VSI). This is a plug-in for the vSphere client which enables further management of your specific array. There are advanced options made available for SRDF, Storage Views and Management. It is quite useful to have although I haven’t really used […] The post SRM with VMAX 20K Part VIII: Configuring EMC Virtual Storage Integrator appeared first on vRyan.co.uk – Virtualization Blog.

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Copying App Volumes AppStacks Between…

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Copying App Volumes AppStacks Between Environments That Use vSAN Storage

Copying App Volumes AppStacks Between…

By Jeffrey Davidson There is an issue copying App Volumes AppStacks (VMDK files) if using Secure Copy (SCP) from one environment to another when using VSAN storage. This is not an App Volumes problem; it is related to the way VSAN stores VMDK data. Clients will often want to create AppStacks in a test environment, […]

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Content Packs vs. Management Packs

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Content Packs vs. Management Packs

Content Packs vs. Management Packs

Log Insight has the notion of content packs while vRealize Operations Manager has the notion of management packs. In this post, I will talk about the differences between the two. Format A content pack is a VMware Log Insight Content Pack or VLCP file and consists of a JSON blob. Important: The JSON blob should […] The post Content Packs vs. Management Packs appeared first on SFlanders.net by Steve Flanders.

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VCP6-DCV Objective 10.2 – Create and Manage…

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VCP6-DCV Objective 10.2 – Create and Manage Multi-Site Content Library

VCP6-DCV Objective 10.2 – Create and Manage…

VCP6-DCV Study Guide is here to help you study towards VCP6-DCV (or delta) exam. Today’s topic is new in vSphere 6. Feature called vSphere Content Library was not present in vSphere 5.5 and made its apparition in vSphere 6 during its release.VCP6-DCV Objective 10.2 – Create and Manage Multi-Site Content Library is today’s lesson. vSphere […] Read the full post VCP6-DCV Objective 10.2 – Create and Manage Multi-Site Content Library at ESX Virtualization.

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