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 […]
Xangati Virtual Appliance – Now With Remediation Capabilities and Native Hyper-V Support
Xangati Virtual Appliance now has an automatic remediation capabilities. Monitoring is good, but having a possibility to remediate an issue (a bottleneck) is better. That’s why Xangati’s news saying that they are not only able to monitor and point you to a problem, but also be able to execute a remediate action is an interesting move. A […]
vSphere 6 Training Course at PluralSight
There has been a new vSphere 6 Training Course released at Pluralsight. The Author is Greg Shield who covers every single topic of vSphere 6 from clean install, upgrades, managing VMs or configuring advanced networking or HA options and much more. Greg Shields is Author Evangelist with Pluralsight and is a globally-recognized expert on systems management, virtualization, […]
VMware vSphere 6.0 Update 1b Released
VMware has released VMware vSphere 6.0 Update 1b today. This is a maintenance release mostly but new features has been added as well. One of the new features is that with this version vCenter sever supports URL-based patching using the zipped update bundle. This is second “patch” release for vSphere 6.0 and many resolved issues had […]
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