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VSAN and VM storage policy – first impressions

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Since I’m running my test home-brewed VSAN installation, every day I’m able to discover how this solution is actually working and what’s possible and what’s not. You could already read my article how to create your first VM storage policy, as after VSAN’s activation this is the second step – By default VSAN does not show any […]

Large Memory Pages settings configuration options in VMware vSphere

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Are you thinking to configure large memory pages in VMware vSphere? There are few things that one has to keep in mind. Large memory pages will not be shared because chances of finding 2MB memory pages that are identical are much lower. Transparent page sharing kicks in only when there is a memory contention. Transparent page sharing […]

Book review – Learning Veeam Backup & Replication for VMware vSphere

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I know Veeam’s product insight out as I’m an early adopter, but by reading through Christian’s book I found out some areas which I discovered even further. This article is no mean to be in-depth detailed review, but rather a look for what an average enterprise admin who is managing business critical production systems running […]

Free Study Guide – Microsoft Certification Exam 74-409: Server Virtualization with Windows Server Hyper-V and System Center

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In case you’re in preparation for 74-409 Microsoft Certification exam, you might want to check out this Free Study Guide – Microsoft’s certification exam 74-409: Server Virtualization with Windows Server Hyper-V and System Center,  written by Orin Thomas (@orinthomas). The guide has 8 chapters to learn about server virtualization with Windows Server Hyper-V and starts with the […]

VMware vCenter Log Insight 2.0 – faster with machine learning capabilities

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VMware has announced a new version of VMware vCenter Log Insight 2.0.  More robust and faster, with speedier log analysis time up to 80 %, and overall speed resolution times up to 50 percent. Fully HTML5 based Web UI. The product also adds clustering approach where several instances of vCenter Log Insight configured in cluster […]

Virtualizing SQL Server with VMware – book to have

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If you’re enterprise admin and running VMware vSphere in your company, you might be interested in following book by VMware press – Virtualizing SQL Server with VMware: Doing IT Right. This book written by Michael Corey, Jeff Szastak and Michael Webster is currently in pre-order and the pre-order price allows you to save 19% of […]

My VSAN journey – all done!

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Another VSAN homelab is born! After waiting some time for more SSDs, Infiniband cables and Perc H310 storage controller cards from eBay, now when all the pieces has arrived I’m able to put everything together and run my VMware VSAN cluster. I expanded my older hosts with internal storage (previously there was a shared storage […]

VSAN Hardware Design Guide 1.0 Released – Check it out

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A new PDF VSAN Hardware design Guide 1.0 has been released by VMware recently. This guide, called VMware® Virtual SAN™ Hardware Guidance help out with the designing the necessary hardware for VMware VSAN. Even if blade servers are supported for VSAN, they’re not optimal because of their limited space to hold disk groups. Also extensibility of […]

Xangati Released Two New Dashboards to extend their Software Suite

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Xangati just announced two new dashboards in their software suite. Xangati is a specialist in end-to-end real time monitoring, but their product offers some unique capabilities, like storm tracking or automatic recording when your infrastructure is performing badly. There is new Executive Dashboard which offers an overall view of VDI and VI components and also […]