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Tuesday, February 11, 2020

Host cannot communicate with one or more other nodes in the vSAN enabled cluster

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I work as VMware HCI Specialist, therefore I have to do a lot of vSAN testing and demonstrations in my home lab. The only reasonable way ho...
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Saturday, February 01, 2020

vSphere Integrated Containers - PoC in my home lab

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vSphere Integrated Containers (aka VIC) is VMware Enterprise Container Infrastructure. Any VMware customer having VMware vSphere Enterprise...
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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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