Networking for VMware Administrators by VMware Press. This must have book is written by Chris Wahl and Steve Pantol. The book as you would expect by the title, focuses on networking, and is destined for VMware admins willing to learn more about networking. Chris Wahl is one of the bloggers out there which is very […]
PernixData Launches Flash Virtualization Platform 1.0 (FVP)
Today is a great day for PernixData as the company is announcing the general availability (GA) of their Flash Virtualization Platform (FVP) product. A product which accelerates workloads without the need for a change of the existing SAN storage device. When planning to install The FVP, there is no need to plan any configuration changes […]
VMware vCenter Server 5.1 Update 1b Released
Just a few weeks before VMworld, there is a new release of VMware vCenter Server 5.1 U1b. As you probably imagine, this is only maintenance release, which fixes some important bugs, but does not bring any new features or functions. There are no new patches for ESXi hypervisor in this release, but there were some releases […]
Latest ESXi Updates available
Latest ESXi Updates available for VMware ESXi can be downloaded since few days at VMware website. This large update pack (610 Mb) contains general ans security fixes. Mostly general bug fixes, but also security fixes. The host reboot is required. For installing the VIB use esxcli software vib command. Or, additionally, the system can be updated using […]
PowerShell Deep Dives – New Book
This new book diving very deep into powershell with a large number of authors from the PowerShell community. One of the authors is Jonathan Medd, which is also co-author of another book called VMware PowerCLI Reference. I’m sure you know this book too. PowerShell is used in Windows administration for many years and it evolved […]
Downgrade Virtual Machine Hardware – what’s your options?
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
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
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
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
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 […]
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