I’ve passed by the WD booth to see their latest baby – a quad core Xeon server DS6100 which can be loaded with up to 32Gb of RAM. There are WD Se enterprise-class 3.5-inch hard drives offering up to 16 TB, which handles the storage and two additional boot drives configured in RAID 1 (mirror). The […]
vCloud Automation Center 6.0 (VCAC) Details Unveiled
VMware VCAC 6.0 has been announced during VMworld Barcelona 2013. vCloud Automation Center is automation product for cloud infrastructures, which allows through policy based blueprint, an automatic delivery of multi-tier applications or rather services, based on a catalog. Those services are self-service based and offers to the IT provide to through the catalog, a personalized services […]
vCenter Log Insight 1.5 Brings Enhanced Content Packs and More
vCenter Log insight is quite a young product in the VMware product line, which got introduced through my article – Easy Install, clean Interface…vCenter Log Insight. The product allows collect, analyse and search logs and unstructured, machine generated data. vCenter Log Insight 1.5 gets tighter integration with VCOPS and it’s optimized for VMware environments with built-in […]
vCOPS 5.8 – vCenter Operations Suite 5.8 Announced during VMworld 2013 Barcelona
VMware has announced vCenter Operations Management Suite 5.8. (vCOPS 5.8) The product isn’t available for download yet (shall be out mi-november), but we already know what’s new in vCOPS 5.8. vCOPS 5.8 uses intelligent operations with policy-based automation, where the automation engine is self-learning and regulates and drives remediation actions continuously. Intelligent Operations – capacity managment […]
SEsparse Disk Format vs VMFSsparse – VMware performance study
While the new SEsparse disk format introduced in vSphere 5.1 for Horizon View based workloads only, the VMFSsparse is used for snapshoting or linked clones too. SEsparse Disk Format vs VMFSsparse are compared and tested in this study. The SESparce VMDK virtual disk format – Space Efficient Sparse Disk Format. This disk format has a new granular block allocation size […]
VMware VSAN during VMworld Barcelona
I just wanted to point out to sessions and group discussions that will discuss VMware VSAN. As you know, the sessions are recorded, but the discussions are not. So it’s a probably smart move for some to attend the group discussions instead of the actual session as the recording will be available online after VMworld. […]
Homelab Thoughts – VSAN
Beta of VMware VSAN publicly available through VMware communities gives an opportunity for installing and testing. But how to evaluate the hardware necessary to build 3 nodes and not to break the budget? Here are my thoughts of what’s available right now and what would allows to build a VSAN based cluster for homelab. It’s […]
VMworld Barcelona – See You There!
As last year, I got that change and attend personally this year’s VMworld in Barcelona. I feel very privileged to be able to attend as many folks don’t have that possibility and stays home. While I don’t have an employer, it’s still my employer (myself) who pays for the travel and expenses… But most importantly, […]
Discover unRAID OS – an unique embedded Network Attached Storage (NAS) server operating system
I stumbled through this by surfing the web. unRAID is a NAS Operating System which allows storing digital files, videos etc… but with some huge difference at the RAID level as it allows mixing disks of different capacity. Similarly as Drobo does. unRAID embedded Network Attached Storage (NAS) server runs out of USB stick to provide […]
How to change the default password policies in vSphere 5.5
I’ve recently installed vCenter server appliance (VCSA) to manage my lab environment running vSphere 5.5. It’s faster than instaling a vCenter under Windows and it’s the future. I was wondering how to change the default password policies in vSphere 5.5? The Default vCenter SSO configuration password policy is set to expire passwords in 90 days with […]
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