VMware VSAN product is nice piece of software which allows using local DAS storage as well as local SSD(s) in each host to configure a pooled datastore. The product shall be released in 2014 and you can find all the necessary info and guides through VMware VSAN community page, where you can currently download public […]
VMware vCenter Server 5.5b released
VMware has released vCenter Server 5.5b. This release comes not longer after the 5.5a release (31 of October) and fixes some bugs which were present. Bugs which were affecting installation, upgrade or work with vSphere Web client. VMware vCenter Server 5.5.0b, so the Build 1476387 is the latest vCenter server release. Update: VMware has released vCenter […]
VMware released VCAC 6.0 – Check Out Also An Installation Script which saves Install time
VMware releases a VCAC 6.0. The product was announced with all the bells and whistles during VMworld Barcelona 2013. vCloud Automation Center (vCAC 6.0) enables you to automate provisioning and management if IT services across multi-vendor deployment technologies, tools and processes. If you want to get a good overview, check out this post where you can find few videos. […]
vSphere 5.5 Power Management Enhancements – VMware PDF
VMware vSphere 5.5 platfor introduced new power management technique to allow save power and manage more efficiently hosts with settings which allows saving energy via special settings in vSphere Host Power Management (HPM). The default HPM policy uses deep halt states (C-states) as an additional power saving model to the dynamic voltage and frequency scaling […]
My Experience From An Advanced VMware Certification Exam – VCAP5-DCA
Update: This exam has been passed now! Until few months back I haven’t think of taking any VCAPs. I wasn’t motivated and did not want to go through the stress, as I’m quite nervous when before any kind of exam. But then there was VMworld Barcelona and this incredible 75% discount so I tested my […]
VCAP-DCD Experience – a Pass!
This is was my second attempt to pass a VCAP-DCD exam and this time with success. After my first experience in Barcelona where I failed, this time I passed. I traveled with my spouse to sunny Lisbon. You might ask why Lisbon? The flight with EasyJet was cheap and we will take week of vacations […]
Troubleshooting vSphere Storage – New Book
Mike Preston over at mwpreston.net has published new book on a topic that is one of the most crucial in today’s virtualization – a storage performance. The book’s name is Troubleshooting vSphere Storage. Performance of storage systems is always quite complex topic. IOPS, Throughput, latency… quite many metrics to follow, tweak and think of. The way that […]
VMware vSphere Host Profiles – options and troubleshooting
In the first part we introduced VMware vSphere Host profiles and created a host profile from a reference host, then we added a new port group and applied the change to running host. We could see the change populate – live. That’s powerful, but we need more. Don’t forget that our final objective is to […]
VMware vSphere AutoDeploy – Run some PowerCLI and you’re the Boss
Nice title he? But before you want to call yourself a Boss, you need to (still) learn the ins and outs of Autodeploy. Motivated? GO! In previous post we have already done the first part – the Autodeploy configuration. Autodeploy uses rules. Those rules does the configuration when the ESXi image boots up. Those rules […]
HyTrust Acquires HighCloud Security to add encryption and key management capabilities
HighCloud security has an offering which allows to encrypt VMware vSphere, vCD public or private based workloads. The technology will be able to protect data by encrypting data at rest, where HyTrust was offering up to now, a security and hardening of the whole vSphere infrastructure via policies which for example are used to setup a […]
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