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What is VMware Storage DRS (SDRS)?

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Today we’ll get more details about another VMware technology called Storage DRS (SDRS). Storage DRS allows you to manage the aggregated resources of a datastore cluster, which means that you can balance a space and I/O load between different datastores within a datastore cluster. Also, SDRS manages the initial placement of virtual disks based on space […]

What is VMware Orchestrated Restart?

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VMware Orchestrated Restart has been introduced in vSphere 6.5. This built-in feature allows multi-tier VMs to be restarted with the right order in case of host failure. Those VMs can be placed on different hosts, either automatically via DRS or manually, via vMotion. VMware orchestrated restart is not referring to single host VM start priority […]

Starwind Virtual SAN New Release with NUMA Support and Flash Cache Optimization

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Starwind software has released new version build of their flagship software product Starwind Virtual SAN. As we reported in our previous posts, a Free or paid version of Starwind Virtual SAN is available within their offering. The free and “self-support” is a bit limited but viable for some basic scenarios, and if you invest into some […]

How to patch VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) from Offline Depot ZIP file

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Today we’ll show you how to patch vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) from Offline Depot. As you might notice, a new version of VCSA 6.5a has been released, as well as ESXi 6.5a, supporting VMware NSX 6.3. The VCSA 6.5 become more attractive when it comes built-in features. We have detailed the deployment and setup, built-in […]

How to configure ESXi 6.5 Network Time Protocol (NTP) via Host Client?

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ESXi host client is bundled with VMware Free ESXi Hypervisor. While we still have the possibility to manage single host via traditional vSphere Client (Windows based), it becomes clear that sooner or later the legacy client will be gone. That’s why this post – How to configure ESXi 6.5 Network Time Protocol (NTP) via Host Client […]

How to create a nested ESXi 6.5 Template

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The way of installing or creating ESXi hosts as VMs (mean nested virtualization) has changed many times in the past. But as VMware introduces new features and improvements in every release of vSphere, the time has come again to check what’s the best practices and How to create a nested ESXi 6.5 template. It is […]

How to Deploy VMware LogInsight 4 and What’s new?

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LogInsight 4.0 was released back in November 2016. The product has matured over the time and now is more robust than ever. We have covered the installation/configuration of LogInsight in the past quite a few times, and we liked the “slick” UI and the content pack integrations. The v4.0 introduces New Clarity Theme so we’re […]

Prepare the DHCP Server for vSphere Auto Deploy Provisioning – VMware vSphere 6.5

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We have started our Autodeploy posts in a wrong order. (kind of). Basically, we already explained the initial setup of Autodeploy within vSphere (starting services, initial config) Image Builder management (preparation, image cloning, and management of images). We have also written a post about Autodeploy rules which allows you to create and edit rules (within GUI) […]