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 […]
How to Delete Libraries in Windows 7 easily with free tool
Windows 7 is good OS, but there is one feature that I don’t like. It’s the Libraries which are always on the way. It’s been a long time since I wanted get a post done which explains step by step how to delete libraries in Windows 7. How to get rid of libraries? The thing is […]
How to share VMware Workstation VMs
VMware Workstation 10 allows sharing VMs on a network. It’s possible to allow (or not) users to access this shared VM or give them different set of privileges too. Useful if you deal with users which are for example students or and you don’t want them to break/delete the VM. Users of VMware Workstation might […]
vSphere HA Slot Size and Admission Control Video
VMware has recently published 3 new videos. I wanted to point to the third one which is very good for understanding the very interesting topic about slot size and admission control. If you ever wondered what does exactly that HA cluster policy called “Host failures the cluster tolerates” or how to understand slot size calculations, […]
vFlash Read Cache Performance PDF (vFRC) – vSphere 5.5
New whitepaper which has been released by VMware brings details about new feature present in vSphere 5.5 – vFlash Read Cache (VFRC). I already reported on the details about VFRC in my article – VMware vSphere 5.5 vFlash Read Cache. The paper brings more details about vFlash Read Cache Performance through much deeper testing with different workload […]
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