VMware VSAN 6.2 announced past week has made a lot of waves with enterprise class features like erasure coding, near line deduplication and compression, QoS or built-in performance and capacity monitoring features. I reported on all this in my detailed post VMware VSAN 6.2 Announced – Nearline dedupe, Erasure Coding, QoS ++. In today’s post we’ll […]
VCP6-DTM Objective 3.2 – Configure Automated Pools using full clones
In today’s post we’ll configure full clones driven by automated pools. In this particular case we won’t use VMware Composer, reducing a bit the complexity of View, but on the other hand growing the storage needs. But there is also a time which plays a certain role as full clone gets more time to get […]
VMware vSphere Licensing Simplified
VMware vSphere Licensing got simpler after the yesterday’s announces about new VMware VSAN 6.2, VMware Horizon 7 and VMware Workspace One. In case you missed the online announces, you can still read my posts which details pretty much everthing that has been said. In this post we will dive into details about the new VMware […]
VMware VSAN 6.2 Announced – Nearline dedupe, Erasure Coding, QoS ++
VMware VSAN 6.2 has been announced today and there are some cool improvements from the efficiency standpoint (Nearline deduplication, compression, erasure coding) and also from the performance monitoring perspective (no more need for VSAN observer and RVC). In case you missed out, this is the 4th release of VSAN already! The initial version of VSAN was introduced in vSphere […]
VMware vFlash Read Cache (VFRC)
VMware vFlash Read Cache was introduced in vSphere 5.5 and continue to be present in vSphere 6.x. It allows to leverage local SSD in each host as a cache. Note that no extra VIBs need to be installed on ESXi host or no other software. All the necessary modules are built-in the ESXi 5.5 and […]
2 Nodes 10GbE Switch-Less Configs from Starwind
Starwind like many other software vendors has jumped into the “Hyperconvergent train”. Starwind Software is known for their flagship product Starwind SAN which is already on v8. But since recently they’re also offering bundles (software + hardware + backup + management). They’re proposing bundles for small, medium or larger business starting with 2 nodes or more, where […]
How to Get Started with Ravello Systems – VM Import Tool
Ravello Systems allows many different use cases. Training labs, simulations of production environment or just creating and spinning a couple of VMs from scratch. You can not only use those cloud services through Ravello at a very very reasonable cost but also learn, test or execute different configurations and setups if you don’t have enough resources […]
Convert NT4 physical to VM on ESXi 6.0
This post is a guest post by Richard Robbins who recently did an interesting task – Convert NT4 physical to VM on ESXi 6.0. He contacted me on Twitter asking which would be the good direction to take and then few tweets later he came up with a working solution in his environment. As I haven’t had the […]
VMware Converter 6.1 Supports Windows 10 and Hyper-V v3 VMs
VMware Converter 6.1 Released adds possibility to convert (Powered Off) Hyper-V v3 VMs and also compatibility with Windows 10 OS. This is strange as just few weeks ago I tried to convert my laptop running W10 by using the 6.0 version of VMware converter and did not experienced any issues. VMware converter has many possible […]
VCP6-DTM Objective 2.6 – Configure Horizon View Cloud Pod Architecture
In today’s post VCP6-DTM Objective 2.6 – Configure Horizon View Cloud Pod Architecture we’ll activate one of the newer feature of Horizon View – Cloud Pod architecture. A View Pod cannot cross multiple datacenters, but a federation can be done between PODs where one POD local and one in remote datacenter. Each View pod is an independent entity […]
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