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VMware vSphere 5.5 Storage New Features

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 9, 2014

VMware vSphere 5.5 introducing larger virtual disk size (up to 62Tb) which requires ESXi 5.5, where existing VMDKs can be grown (offline). Those large VMDKs are supported also on the newly released vSAN datastores. You can grow the VMDKs, but for now its an offline process. VMware has it on the roadmap on the future […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: vSphere 5.5 Storage

VMware VSAN introduced in vSphere 5.5 – How it works and what’s the requirements?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 15, 2017

VMware vSAN allows presenting locally attached storage (SSD and HDD) to create clustered datastore. VMware vSAN is a software feature is built into the hypervisor. To be able to leverage VMware vSAN, you’ll need to associate at least one HDD and one SSD in each of the servers participating in the vSAN cluster, where the […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: VMware vSAN, vSAN, vSphere 5.5

VMware vSphere Replication 5.5 – what’s new?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 9, 2014

With the recent release of VMware vSphere 5.5, the VMware vSphere Replication 5.5 has been released as well. There are new features present in vSphere Replication 5.5, which are really helpful and that are giving the possibility to construct very advanced replication scenarios for remote offices. Those remote offices do not need vCenter server installed. […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: vSphere 5.5, vSphere Replication

VMware vSphere 5.5 vFlash Read Cache with VFFS

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 9, 2014

New version of VMware vSphere has introduced VMware vFlash Read cache, which enables you to use local SSD devices pooled together forming a pool of storage tier. The vFlash is integrated with vMotion, HA and DRS. The solution, the vFlash caching software, is tightly integrated into the hypevizor (placed into the data path), as an […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: vFlash Read Cache

VMware VDP 5.5 and VDP Advanced – With a DR for VDP!

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 9, 2014

VMware Releasing major updates to almost all vCloud Suite products. vSphere 5.5 has been announced and I already covered quite a few products and new features. In this article you’ll see what has been prepared in VMware VDP 5.5 and VDP Advanced. vSphere Data Protection, based on Amavar’s code, is a backup appliance. vSphere Data Protection […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: VDP Advanced, VMware VDP 5.5

vCD 5.5 – VMware vCloud Director 5.5 New and enhanced features

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 9, 2014

Together with the all the announcements around new vSphere 5.5 and vCloud Suite, also vCloud Director 5.5 (VCD 5.5 ) introduces several improvements and enhancements. One of the new enhancement is the content catalog usability improvements, where sharing capabilities are improved together with possibility to add remote catalogs or catalogs son external storage. vCD 5.5 […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: vCD 5.5

VMware vSphere 5.5 – Storage enhancements and new configuration maximums

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 9, 2014

VMware vSphere 5.5 released and brings many enhancements, which are introduced with new virtual hardware version 10 (VMX-10). It brings new configuration maximums for ESXi hosts, clusters and VMs, by introducing Virtual Hardware version 10 (vmx-10) which allows to use larger VMDKs, larger number of CPUs and memory. Virtual Machine Hardware Version 10 (vmx-10) – There […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: VMware vSphere 5.5

VMware vCenter Server 5.5 Enhancements – Linux version supports up to 100 ESXi hosts now

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 7, 2014

vCenter Server 5.5 has brings new functions within the vSphere Web Client faster UI and improved (simplified) Single Sign On installations and deployments. The user interface of the vSphere web client is faster, has more functions and brings support for Mac OSX. SSO can handle multi domain access and also the deployment options are simplified […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: VMware vCenter Server 5.5, VMware vCenter Server 5.5 Enhancements

VMware Certified Associate – (VCA) Additional VMware Certification Announced without mandatory training

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

VMware has announced new certification to the already crowded number of certifications. There is four VMware Certified Associate (VCE) certification. And with good news is that there is no obligatory training in order to pass those certifications and get the VCE certification! Which certifications are available? VMware Certified Associate – Cloud (VCA-Cloud) VMware Certified Associate – Data […]

| Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: VMware Certified Associate

VMware NSX Introduced – Network Virtualization Platform

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 11, 2019

VMware NSX

VMware Blog published first details about NSX – Network Virtualization Platform some time ago. But during VMworld we should assist to many news about this revolutionary upcoming product. After successfully virtualizing physical servers and systems, VMware will now allow virtualize network, and will be multi-platform compatible. This article is not a deep dive, but I’ll try […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: VMware NSX

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