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Downgrade Virtual Machine Hardware – what’s your options?

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Virtual Machine hardware version evolves with every major release of VMware vSphere. When you upgrade VMware vSphere to the latest release, you upgrade your vCenter, your ESXi hosts, then you update VM tool in your VMs. Those VMs do have the latest VM tools, but continue to run on the hardware version of the release […]

New Book: vSphere High Performance Cookbook

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There has been new book announced recently called vSphere High Performance Cookbook. The author is Prasenjit Sarkar who works for VMware as a senior technical staff in VMware Service Provider Cloud R&R. The book (currently in pre-order should be out this month – July 31st). Prasenjit Sarkar (@stretchcloud) is VCAP-DCD4/5, VCAP-DCA4/5, VCAP-CIA, vExpert 2012/2013 and currently […]

Reducing the Cost of Delivering Compute Services in vCloud Environments

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vCD adds an additional layer of complexity when it comes to managing VMs and vApps belonging to vCD.  Those VMs and resources to be cost effective, must be right sized, placed on the right tier of storage to match business needs and SLAs, and at the same time achieve this with least administrative effort. Why […]

vSphere Big Data Extensions Beta 1.0 – Hadoop on VMware

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VMware has announced recently a new extension for Big Data called vSphere Big Data Extensions. Currently in public Beta, the product allows the integration between Project Serengeti and vSphere. The in-between layer is the vSphere Big Data Extensions, which is visible in vSphere via a plugin through a vSphere Web client. The vSphere Big Data […]

PernixData FVP in my lab

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I’ve been testing PernixData FVP since some time now. FVP dramatically accelerates shared storage used by virtual infrastructures running VMware vSphere as it offloads the writes destined to the SAN by using local SSD storage in each host. FVP creates a pooled flash layer which allows to write to locally attached SSDs before sending those writes […]

Haswell ESXi Whitebox

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Difficult to ignore the Intel’s latest CPU release. Intel codename Haswell. The K-series parts lack the support for transactional memory extensions and VT-d device virtualization included with standard Haswell CPUs, so obviously I’ve turned out to other than the K-series. If you are into overclocking, then the 4770K would probably be your choice. For my […]

Memory Overcommitment in The ESX server – deep dive and best practices. Good Read in VMware Technical Journal 2013!

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Memory Overcommitment in The ESX server is just one of the chapters present in VMware Technical Journal, which went out few days ago. You’ll find the information about how memory overcommit works and which techniques are used, and also some best practices or how to avoid pitfalls. It’s a deep dive chapter. There are also some […]

VMware Tools Download From Online Repository

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I got few questions recently concerning VMware Tools. Usually Installation of VMware tools is easy process. Few clicks in the vSphere client and you install the VMware tools automatically or interactively. There is a third supported way to install VMware tools.  In case you want to do a manual install of VMware tools from within […]

Easy Install, clean Interface…vCenter Log Insight – New Product

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A public beta product called vCenter Log Insight can be downloaded and tested. I’ve downloaded and installed this product in my lab. The install/configure takes at most 5 minutes of your time. The product currently in public beta, is going to be licensed per host, and you’ll need vCenter which is a central point where […]