There is a new VMware PDF document showing many tips when evaluating and deploying VSAN. The PDF is a very good read. It walks you through to make sure that you know the difference on VSAN behavior when running on 3 or 4 nodes. I actually got some good information about not only that when VSAN […]
VMware Log Insight 2.5 – vRealize Log Insight, upgrade and PAK management walkthrough
VMware released Log Insight 2.5 product, which name is now vRealize Log Insight 2.5. In case you were running version 2.0 previously you can upgrade with a .PAK file and in this post I’ll show you the process and also how easy it is to update or install new content pak from within the UI. […]
vRealize Operations Manager 6.0 Download Available Including Migration Best Practices
VMware has released vRealize Operations Manager 6.0 to the public yesterday. The product has evolved and presents streamlined UI compared to previous version. Upgrade path is available as “side-by-side” where you basically have to install the v 6.0 next to the 5.8 and then launch a migration wizard to transfer the data. But the migration […]
Performance Best Practices vSphere – ESXi and VMs in General
One of the consideration to achieve good performance on ESXi hosts is the entry point – Virtual Machine. If you have chosen a hardware that is VMware supported and it’s already in production you can’t do much about it. You’ve made the acquisition and for few years you’ll be using it. But the VMs you’re […]
Enterprise NAS HDD From Seagate for 8 Bay NAS devices with 5 Years Warranty
Number two of hard disk drives, Seagate, launching new product line of hard disks targeting enterprise NAS devices with up to 16 disks. The principal competitor , WD with their line of WD Red were only available for NAS devices having up to 4 HDDs. Enterprise NAS HDD From Seagate shall have more capacity and larger cache (p […]
VMware Workstation 11 Released – With up to 45 percent performance improvements
VMware Workstation 11 has been released! The product has added latest OS and enhancements which on latest Haswell CPUs can make a significant difference with up to 45 percent performance improvements. UPDATE: You might want to check the VMware Workstation 12 and 40 New Features post !!! Latest virtual hardware 11 (vmx-11) is present in Workstation. […]
VMware Tools Heartbeat Options And Application Monitoring Possibilities
VMware Tools heartbeat is used by vSphere High Availability (HA) checking if VM is in running state. You must first enable it at the cluster level. There is a choice of disabling, enabling for VMs or enabling for VMs and Applications. The VMware tools heartbeat is sent to host and if host does not receive […]
Saber 1000 Series By OCZ announced with up to 960Gb – Drains only 3.7 watts of power in active state
A new enterprise classe SSD’s called Saber 1000 Series were announced by OCZ Storage Solutions (a Toshiba group). Three models with capacities 240Gb, 480Gb and 960Gb were announced, with a very efficient 3.7 W of power in active state. The drives are SATA based devices with an interesting feature allowing centralized management of multiple devices […]
VMturbo Operations Manager 5.0 Adds Network Control Module and More
VMturbo just released v 5.0 of their flagship software – VMturbo Operations Manager. The product matured over time with important releases but the 5.0 has added an important one – network control module. VMturbo places automatically workloads communicating often, together in order to minimize east-west traffic and reduce latency. One could achieve the same using […]
StorMagic SvSAN 5.2 for VMware and Hyper-V Has Also Write-back caching (SSD)
StorMagic has been around since few years now and in the past their simple approach for mirroring data with two ESXi hosts was one of the solutions that I’ve been looking at to for small environments. The recent release of StorMagic 5.2 brought also some more data services like Write-back caching (using SSDs) or Data Migration between […]
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