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Thursday, September 12, 2019

Datacenter Fabric for HCI in scale

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I'm currently designing a brand new data center based on VMware HCI for one of my customers. Conceptually, we are planning to have two ...
Wednesday, September 11, 2019

New job role - vSAN rulez

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Hey, my readers. Long-time readers of my blog know that I'm working with VMware datacenter technologies since 2006 when I moved from ...
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Wednesday, August 28, 2019

VMware Ports and Protocols

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VMware recently released a very interesting tool. The tool documents all network ports and protocols required for communication from/to som...
Wednesday, August 21, 2019

VMware vSphere 6.7 Update 3 is GA

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VMware vSphere 6.7 Update 3 is GA as of August 20, 2019. The most interesting new feature is the possibility to change the Primary Networ...
Tuesday, August 20, 2019

VMware vSAN 6.7 U3 has been released

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VMware vSAN 6.7 U3 is GA as of August 20, 2019! This is a great release.  I was waiting mainly for  Native support for Windows Server F...
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Thursday, August 08, 2019

vSAN Capacity planning - Understanding vSAN memory consumption in ESXi

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It is very clear that VMware vSAN (VMware's software-defined storage) has the momentum in the field, as almost all my customers are pla...
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Friday, August 02, 2019

Updating Firmware in vSAN Clusters from VUM

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If you operate vSAN you know that correct firmware and drivers are super important for system stability as vSAN software heavily depends on...
Wednesday, July 03, 2019

VMware Skyline

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VMware Skyline is a relatively new Phone Call or Home Call functionality developed by VMware Global Services. It is a proactive support te...
Tuesday, July 02, 2019

vSAN logical design and SSD versus NVMe considerations

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I'm just preparing vSAN capacity planning for PoC of one of my customers. Capacity planning for traditional and hyper-converged infrast...
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Monday, June 10, 2019

How to show HBA/NIC driver version

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How to find the version of HBA or NIC driver on VMware ESXi? Let's start with HBA drivers.  STEP 1/ Find driver name for the part...
Thursday, June 06, 2019

vMotion multi-threading and other tuning settings

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When you need to boost overall vMotion throughput, you can leverage Multi-NIC vMotion. This is good when you have multiple NICs so it is k...
Wednesday, June 05, 2019

How to get more IOPS from a single VM?

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Yesterday, I have got a typical storage performance question. Here is the question ... I am running a test with my customer how many IOP...