Newly updated white paper by VMware is all about design and deployment of vSphere on iSCSI storage, which is the most used by smaller and bigger customers. It’s a document which has been updated last week called iSCSI Design Consideration and Deployment guide teaches the best practices for running VMware vSphere on iSCSI storage. Authored by Cormac […]
VMware vFlash Read Cache (vFRC) configuration steps
Upcoming VMware vSphere 5.5 which has been announced during VMworld 2013 brought another interesting feature called vFlash Read Cache (vFRC). A special formatting is applied to each SSD in each host, and each SSD device is formatted with new filesystem called VFFS (Virtual Flash File System). This VFFS spans the cluster and forms a flash resource which […]
VMware VSAN configuration steps with nested ESXi hypervisors
You can test VMware VSAN configuration even if you don’t have 3 physical servers. By simply creating 3 virtual ESXi hosts (VMs) which run on the same box it’s possible to test VSAN. Each virtual ESXi needs to have at least one spinning disk and one SSD disk. You can also use a computer running VMware Workstation. […]
Copy files from one cloud service provider to another – with Mover
There is a nice and convenient service called Mover.io which allows easily make transfer of your files from Dropbox to SkyDrive for example. But not only. There is quite a few connectors available through the service. It’s possible to transfer files and folders from many online storage service providers. This can be useful for individuals, […]
VMware vSphere 5.5 PDF Documents, Links and news
VMware vSphere 5.5 PDF summarizing vSphere 5.5 platform new features is available. It’s a just single page small PDF document showing principal features of vSphere 5.5. The vSphere 5.5 platform has been introduced during VMworld 2013, and it is about twice as big (concerning configuration maximums) compared to the previous release. This Quick Reference document is organized in […]
Splunk App for VMware 3.0 Released
Splunk App for VMware version 3.0 has been released and introduces different architecture for the data collection and also a new GUI based configuration which makes the configuration process easier. The Splunk App for VMware 3.0 reduced the amount of data which is pulled from vCenter and ESXi hosts. (ex. vCenter daily logs = 15Mb; […]
VMware Workstation 10 and VMware Fusion 6 Released!
Just released! VMware Workstation 10 and VMware Fusion 6. This is a major release of VMware Workstation since last year, which comes in after a two consecutive technology previews, where virtual hardware 10 and major enhancements like SSD pass through has been already revealed. Update: Workstation has been updated to 10.0.1 recently. There were some latest […]
vSphere Replication 5.5 and SRM 5.5 Technical Update – Free VMworld Session
The vSphere Replication 5.5 (VR) is part of the vCloud Suite from the Essentials Plus and higher from the license standpoint. In this VMworld Session BCO5129 Protection for All: vSphere Replication and SRM technical update they start the presentation with the basics, what VR does, how to install the components and then the registering with […]
New Free Script (with GUI) called Event-O-Matic to pick an event to generate a PowerShell Code
Luc Dekens has created a nice script which brings up a GUI which enables you to pick up a number of events, and then the script will generate PowerShell code which is placed to the clipboard. He named it Event-O-Matic and it’s available from his blog. When you connect to your vCenter, you have on […]
VSAN Observer – upcoming tool for monitoring VSAN performance
VMware VSAN which has been introduced during VMworld 2013 in SF allows to use local disks together with local SSDs (for acceleration) to create a pool of storage visible to all hosts in the cluster as a shared datastore. The product is not available yet. Here are some news about some cool management tools are showing […]
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