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Friday, January 31, 2020

VMware vSphere Replication

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VMware vSphere Replication is a software-based replication solution for virtual machines running on vSphere infrastructure. It is storage a...
Saturday, January 18, 2020

How to configure Jumbo Frames not only for vSAN

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Not only vSAN but also vMotion, NFS and other types of traffic can benefit from Jumbo Frames configured on an ethernet network as the netwo...
Sunday, December 22, 2019

How to remove VMFS datastore and reuse local disks for vSAN

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I'm upgrading the hardware in my home lab to to leverage vSAN. I have 4x Dell PowerEdge R620, each having 2x 500 GB SATA disks but no S...
Wednesday, December 18, 2019

VMware NSX-T and vIDM licensing question

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Time to time customers are asking the following NSX-T & vIDM question ... Do I need license for VMware Identity Manager? The aim for ...
Wednesday, December 11, 2019

vSAN Encryption and Core Dumps

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I was on three days vSAN training ( VMware vSAN: Deploy and Manage [V6.7] ) which is very useful even for someone like me, who is observing...
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...