Storage replica (SR) technology is a little bit different from DFS. As you know DFS uses only asynchronous replication and has usually high latency. DFS has been designed to work for low bandwidth networks as it minimizes a bandwidth usage. But has no real performance needed for fast replication. Also, open files are not replicated to […]
What is VMware vSphere Hypervisor?
VMware virtualization is based on a bare-metal hypervisor platform and the base product ESXi is also called VMware vSphere Hypervisor. Those days there is many hypervisors out there, but the more ancient and more adopted is the one from VMware. Microsoft’s Hyper-V hypervisor is another example of hypervisor used. Today we’ll focus on What is VMware […]
What is VMware Storage DRS (SDRS)?
Today we’ll get more details about another VMware technology called Storage DRS (SDRS). Storage DRS allows you to manage the aggregated resources of a datastore cluster, which means that you can balance a space and I/O load between different datastores within a datastore cluster. Also, SDRS manages the initial placement of virtual disks based on space […]
Runecast Analyzer Product Review
Another interesting review today – Runecast analyzer. If you don’t know Runecast analyzer just yet, I’d highly recommend taking a look as there is no equivalent. Runecast analyzer checks your environment and compares the state for misconfiguration, security or performance issues with current VMware KB articles. Every week VMware releases new KB articles and those are downloaded […]
What is VMware Orchestrated Restart?
VMware Orchestrated Restart has been introduced in vSphere 6.5. This built-in feature allows multi-tier VMs to be restarted with the right order in case of host failure. Those VMs can be placed on different hosts, either automatically via DRS or manually, via vMotion. VMware orchestrated restart is not referring to single host VM start priority […]
Starwind Virtual SAN New Release with NUMA Support and Flash Cache Optimization
Starwind software has released new version build of their flagship software product Starwind Virtual SAN. As we reported in our previous posts, a Free or paid version of Starwind Virtual SAN is available within their offering. The free and “self-support” is a bit limited but viable for some basic scenarios, and if you invest into some […]
How to patch VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) from Offline Depot ZIP file
Today we’ll show you how to patch vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) from Offline Depot. As you might notice, a new version of VCSA 6.5a has been released, as well as ESXi 6.5a, supporting VMware NSX 6.3. The VCSA 6.5 become more attractive when it comes built-in features. We have detailed the deployment and setup, built-in […]
How to configure ESXi 6.5 Network Time Protocol (NTP) via Host Client?
ESXi host client is bundled with VMware Free ESXi Hypervisor. While we still have the possibility to manage single host via traditional vSphere Client (Windows based), it becomes clear that sooner or later the legacy client will be gone. That’s why this post – How to configure ESXi 6.5 Network Time Protocol (NTP) via Host Client […]
Nakivo Backup And Replication 7 Beta Release
Nakivo Backup And Replication 7 Beta is officially released to the public. While we do not have any date when the final product will be available, the beta is out and available for testing. We have now also further information on what’s coming in the v7 of their software. The version 7 of Nakivo, as we […]
Upgrade Windows Server 2012R2 AD to Server 2016
OK, I know that this is not really a good idea, but I had questions on this and wanted to test. I wanted to test an upgrade Windows Server 2012R2 AD to Server 2016. In place migration. Yes, I know, it’s not really worth it as often when migrating, the system isn’t really “clean” with […]
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