-
Latest Blog Articles
Categories
- AWS
- Blade
- Certification
- Configuration
- Domino
- Flex System
- Group Policy
- HP
- Hyper-Converged Infrastructure
- IBM
- IBM Systems Director
- Installation
- Lotus
- Microsoft
- N series
- NetApp
- PowerCLI
- Powershell
- Site Recovery Manager
- SQL
- Storage
- System x
- Uncategorized
- Veeam
- VMware
- VMware Cloud on AWS
- VMware Tools
- vRealize Suite
- vROps
- vSAN
- vSphere
- vSphere 6
- Windows 2008
- Windows 2012
- Workspace ONE
- XIV
Category Archives: VMware
vCenter Server Storage Filters
vCenter has 4 Storage Filters: – RDM Filter VMFS Filter Host Rescan Filter Same Host Transports Filter These filters affect the actions vCenter takes when scanning storage as follows:- RDM Filter When you attempt to add a RDM to a … Continue reading
Posted in Configuration, VMware, vSphere
Leave a comment
VCAP5 Exams Retirement
Those of you who have planned to take the either of the VCAP5 exams, VCAP5-DCA or VCAP5-DCD, need to get in quick as VMware have announced the retirement of these two exams as follows: – VCAP5-DCA – Data Center Administrator … Continue reading
Posted in Certification, VMware
1 Comment
vSphere Beta
There is a new vSphere Beta Program starting soon. I don’t know the exact date but I would suspect that it will be in time for the upcoming release (v6.5 maybe) to be ready for VMware at the end of … Continue reading
Posted in VMware, vSphere
Leave a comment
Build and Manage Your Hybrid Cloud with Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI)
On Wednesday 10th February 2016, the day after VMware announced Workspace ONE, see Digital Workspace, they announced a new major version of Virtual SAN (vSAN) and vRealize Suite 7. A replay of the announcement can be seen in a video … Continue reading
Digital Workspace
Earlier this week on Tuesday 9th February 2016 as part of the Mobility Online Event VMware announced the Workspace ONE solution containing the new Horizon 7 and improved Horizon Air. The video of these announcements may still be available for view … Continue reading
Posted in VMware, Workspace ONE
Leave a comment
Intel XEON E5-2600-v3 and vSphere 5.0
I had an interesting issue recently with HP Proliant BL460c Gen 9 blades containing Intel XEON E5-2600-v3 processors and running ESXi 5.0. All appeared to be working fine until I added the blades into an existing vSphere cluster with Gen … Continue reading
SRM 6.1 Support for Stretched Storage Cluster
At the US VMworld at the end of August 2015 VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) 6.1 was announced. Once of the new features of this release is the support for stretched storage clusters. A stretched cluster is where your storage … Continue reading
Posted in Site Recovery Manager, VMware, vSphere 6
Leave a comment
RDM Path Selection Policy (PSP) with Microsoft Clustering
Prior to vSphere 5.5 the Round Robin Path Selection Policy (VMW_PSP_RR) is not supported for the shared disks of a Microsoft cluster. You may find that the ESXi multipathing claim rules are set so that when the RDMs are discovered … Continue reading
Posted in Configuration, NetApp, VMware, vSphere
Leave a comment
VMware Paravirtual SCSI Adapter (PVSCSI)
For virtual machines with high disk I/O requirements, such as Tier 1 SQL Servers, you should consider configuring the VM with the VMware Paravirtual SCSI Adapter (PVSCSI). The PVSCSI adapter was introduced in ESX/ESXi 4.0 and is virtualisation aware. It … Continue reading
Posted in Configuration, VMware, vSphere
Leave a comment
VMware vSphere Metro Storage Cluster (vMSC)
VMware vSphere Metro Storage Cluster (vMSC) is not a product but a certified configuration where a vSphere cluster spans geographical locations. This could be spread across a campus, metropolitan area or a larger area up to 200 km apart. vMSC … Continue reading