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What is iSER And Why You Should Care?

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This post will give us some insights on iSER technology which accelerates workloads by using iSCSI extensions for RDMA. the iSER extension has the lowest latency and lowest CPU utilization. It is stable and saves advantages of the iSCSI protocol like security and high availability. The main difference between the standard iSCSI and iSCSI over […]

VMware vSphere 6.5 U1 Released

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Yes, there is a new release of VMware vSphere 6.5U1 which contains the release of VMware vCenter Server 6.5 U1 for Windows and vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) 6.5 U1. Also, VMware ESXi 6.5U1 is part of the update including a new version of VMware Tools (can be downloaded separately). The 6.5U1 brings a possibility to upgrade […]

Deploy VMware VCSA 6.5 in VMware Workstation 2017 Tech Preview

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This one will interest people which want to test the deployment scenarios of VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) 6.5 in a lab without needing a dedicated ESXi host. Recently released VMware Workstation 2017 (Tech Preview) has brought a new feature allowing the deployment of VMware vCSA 6.5 via this product. So this post will detail […]

How to Capture a VMware Mirage Application Layer?

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Before we will walk you through the process, we’d like to point out few things which should be respected when working with VMware Mirage Reference Machines. While currently up to a version of Windows marked 1607 are supported by VMware Mirage (not the Creators update just yet), there are few other guidelines, such as disabling automatic updates […]

What is VMware Stretched Cluster?

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We’re adding another definition or tip to our list today – What is VMware Stretched Cluster? We wrote a post in the past teaching How To Configure VMware High Availability (HA) Cluster. But Stretched Cluster is something different as stretched cluster adds an another dimension to the traditional HA cluster – a geographical location. Imagine you have a […]

StarWind Fault-Tolerant Storage and Benefits

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StarWind Virtual SAN has been discussed on this blog quite a few times in the past, but today we’ll talk about the main benefits for customers willing to use StarWind Fault-Tolerant Storage. The product is evolving with every release but it’s core features and architecture stays simple and flexible for many scenarios. The fact that compared to […]

Runecast Analyzer Keeps vSphere Infrastructure Problems-Free

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Runecast Analyzer which has been reviewed by our team a few months back (Check the Runecast Analyzer detailed review here). It is a very innovative product which points you to the parts of your vSphere infrastructure which is not compliant with the latest VMware KB articles and might be an issue causing downtime or lead […]

VCSA 6.5 Password Expires in X days Notification – How to change?

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If you don’t change the default VMware vCSA password policy for an administrator within the vSphere.local domain, you will get a notification 30 days before the password expires. This is not the root password of the VCSA appliance. We wrote how to reset root password for VCSA appliance here. (Post include a detailed video too). […]

What is VMware CPU Ready?

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VMware CPU Ready metric is used to see a percentage of time that the virtual machine was ready, but could not get scheduled to run on the physical CPU. CPU ready time is dependent on the number of virtual machines on the host and their CPU loads. Usually, to see the values, an “esxtop” command is […]