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Saturday, March 18, 2017

VMware vSphere 6.5 products enhancements and basic concepts behind

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VMware Tech Marketing have produced a bunch of cool vSphere 6.5 related whiteboard videos. Great stuff to review to understand VMware produ...
Friday, March 10, 2017

High level introduction to VMware products

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My blog posts usually go to low level technical details and are targeted to VMware subject matter experts. However, sometime is good to ste...
Sunday, March 05, 2017

ESXi localcli

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I have just read very informative blog post " Adding new vNICs in UCS changes vmnic order in ESXi ". The author (Michael Rudloff...
Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Maximum client sessions vCenter server can accept

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I work as VMware TAM (Technical Account Manager) and one my customer had recently significant incident when clients (vSphere admins) was no...
Sunday, February 26, 2017

How to install VMware tools on FreeBSD server

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FreeBSD is my favorite operating system. All my FreeBSD servers (except embedded systems on physical microcomputers) run as virtual machine...
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Tuesday, January 24, 2017

VMware vSphere 6.0 PSC and SSO Domain useful resources

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I do not have real numbers but it seems obvious and logical that SMB and midrange customers are adopting the latest VMware software much qu...

Useful VMware KB article before upgrade to vSphere 6.5

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I have just found following very useful VMware KB articles and blog posts which should be read before any vSphere 6.5 upgrade and design re...
Wednesday, January 11, 2017

Using esxtop to identify storage performance issues for ESX / ESXi

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ESXi performance are exposing to administrators through vSphere Clients. You can see real-time performance statistics which are collected ...
Tuesday, December 20, 2016

ESXi sched-stats command

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Frank Denneman has shared on twitter very interesting ESXi command to show CPU scheduling statistics and information. @FrankDenneman tw...
Sunday, December 11, 2016

The OVF package is invalid or could not be read.

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I have just tried to deploy NSX Manager 6.2.4 virtual appliance downloaded from VMware site through WebClient. Following error message popu...
Friday, November 25, 2016

PowerCLI script to report VMtools version(s)

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UPDATE 2018-02-05:  I have just been told about very nice PowerCLI command-lets allowing to manage VMtools.  Leveraging command-lets  Get-V...
Tuesday, October 18, 2016

vSphere 6.5 announced so what is coming?

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vSphere 6.5 has been announced on VMworld 2016 so you can ask yourself what it brings and why consider upgrade or at least upgrade plan. ...
Monday, October 17, 2016

VMware SIOC quick configuration in datacenter scale

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I'm currently troubleshooting one weird high kernel latency (KAVG) issue and there is a suspicion that the issue can be somehow related...
Thursday, October 13, 2016

Metro Cluster High Availability or SRM Disaster Recovery?

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Several years I continuously try to explain my customers that metro cluster is not disaster recovery. I have finally found some time and su...
Sunday, October 02, 2016

Leveraging VMware LogInsight for VM hardware inventory

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There is no doubt that VMware LogInsight is a must for any properly managed vSphere environment. I'm explaining LogInsight benefits to ...
Monday, September 26, 2016

How to change default policy of VMware Virtual Distributed Switch (VDS)

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The main advantage of VMware virtual distributed switch (VDS) over VMware virtual standard switch (VSS) is the centralized configuration wh...
Wednesday, September 14, 2016

VMworld 2016 US sessions worth to watch

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Here is the list of VMworld 2016 sessions from US event I watched or still have to watch during next days and weeks. After watching the ...
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