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Wednesday, August 26, 2020

iSCSI Best Practices - 2020 review

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I have just listened to the Virtually Speaking podcast episode Back to Basics: iSCSI Back in 2014, I wrote a blog post about iSCSI Best Pra...
Wednesday, August 12, 2020

Could not connect to one or more vCenter Server Systems: https://vCenterFQDN: 443/sdk"

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When I have logged in vCenter 7 vSphere Client in my home lab, I have experienced the message "Could not connect to one or more vCenter...
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Monday, July 06, 2020

vCenter Server Appliance - Update installation is in progress

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A few days ago, I have updated my home-lab VCSA vCenter Server 7.0 GA (15952498) to vCenter Server 7.0.0a (16189094). Everything seemed ok ...
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Monday, June 22, 2020

What's new in VxRail 7.0

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This is a very short blog post about VxRail 7.0 which has been launched today. First of all, VxRail naming has been aligned with vSphere ve...
Monday, May 11, 2020

Undocumented HA Advanced Option - das.restartVmsWithoutResourceChecks

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Some time ago, a colleague of mine (@stan_jurena) was challenged by one VMware customer who experienced APD (All Path Down) storage situati...
Friday, May 08, 2020

CPU capacity planning and sizing

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During infrastructure capacity planning and sizing, the technical designer has to calculate CPU, RAM, Storage, and Network resource require...
Sunday, May 03, 2020

vSphere 7 - Storage Requirements for the vCenter Server Appliance

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I have upgraded vSphere in my home lab and realized that VCSA 7.0 storage requirements increased significantly. Here are the requirements...
Monday, April 20, 2020

What's New in vSAN 7

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vSAN 7.0 introduces the following new features and enhancements. vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM). vLCM enables simplified, consistent ...
Thursday, April 16, 2020

Logical design - storage performance sizing

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Storage performance is always a kind of magic because multiple factors come in to play and not all disks are equal, however, in logical des...
Saturday, March 21, 2020

What's new in VMware vSphere 7

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vSphere 7 has been announced and will be GA and available to download into our labs very soon. Let's briefly summarize what's new i...
Thursday, March 19, 2020

Home Lab 2019/2020

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First thing first. Why I have the home lab(s)? Well, I really need at least one home lab to test and demonstrate VMware vSphere, vSAN, NS...
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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