VCDX #181 Marc Huppert

Performance of Storage I/O Control (SIOC) with SSD Datastores – vSphere 6.5 [VMware VROOM Blog]

Performance of Storage I/O Control (SIOC) with…

With Storage I/O Control (SIOC), vSphere 6.5 administrators can adjust the storage performance of VMs so that VMs with critical workloads will get the I/Os per second (IOPS) they need. Admins assign shares (the proportion of IOPS allocated to the VM), limits (the upper bound of VM IOPS), and reservations (the lower bound of VM IOPS) to the VMs whose IOPS need to be controlled. After shares, limits, and reservations have been set, SIOC is automatically triggered to meet the desired policies for the VMs.

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vSphere 6.5 Security Product Walkthroughs [yelof.com]

vSphere 6.5 Security Product Walkthroughs

Are you aware of the VMware Product Walkthrough site? If not, you’re missing out on some really great content. A product walkthrough is a guided “tour” of many of VMware’s products. They are helpful when you want to do a dry run of a task, like encrypting a VM for example, so that you can become familiar with the necessary steps in the vSphere Web Client. A product walkthrough (PWT) is also helpful when demonstrating to your peers or colleagues just how easy security management has become in vSphere 6.5!

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Docker on vSphere [vrealize.wordpress.com]

Docker on vSphere

There are lot of talks about Docker/Container these days. If we take a look at companies like Facebook, Twitter, Uber, Lyft, AirBNB etc they are really changing face of business as well as IT operations. Let me put it this way – every time there is a Facebook update from user side all I need to do is click Update button and rest everything is taken care by itself.

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Exporting Host Support Bundles with Passwords

Exporting Host Support Bundles with Passwords

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PowerCLI API Access Methods

PowerCLI API Access Methods

This videos provides a comparison of high level and low level API access methods with VMware’s PowerCLI, using an innovative white board style presentation.

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VM replication state going to ‘Not Active’ as soon as vm is configured for replication [vstellar.com]

VM replication state going to ‘Not Active’ as…

After a long back I dived into my lab yesterday and was working again on setting up DR to vCloud Air.I have wrote few blog posts in past on vSphere Replication and DR to vCloud Air using VR. If you are interested in reading those posts, you can read them from below links.

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5 Free New Features in vSphere 6.5 [virtualizationreview.com]

5 Free New Features in vSphere 6.5

Backup utilities, migration and analytics tools, and more.

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Virtual Machine vCPU Rightsize Recommendations [vmgenie.wordpress.com]

Virtual Machine vCPU Rightsize Recommendations

The discussions and debates on sizing of a VMs vCPUs bounces back and forth between performance and capacity. I have heard both argued very well to a point that honestly I think it comes down to the problem statement whether to think of it as performance or capacity.

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PowerCLI Core on Docker with macOS [virtualbrakeman.wordpress.com]

PowerCLI Core on Docker with macOS

Back in November, shortly after Microsoft’s open-sourcing of PowerShell, and subsequent cross-platform PowerShell Core release, VMware released their cross-platform version of PowerCLI: PowerCLI Core. This was made available on GitHub for general consumption, and can be installed on top of PowerShell Core on a macOS/OSX or Linux machine.

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Transforming Security: The Principle of Least Privilege and Network Virtualization [VMware Radius]

Transforming Security: The Principle of Least…

Least privilege and network virtualization are driving security transformation in networking and end-user computing. Watch this video to learn more.

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