Beta of VMware VSAN publicly available through VMware communities gives an opportunity for installing and testing. But how to evaluate the hardware necessary to build 3 nodes and not to break the budget? Here are my thoughts of what’s available right now and what would allows to build a VSAN based cluster for homelab. It’s […]
VMworld Barcelona – See You There!
As last year, I got that change and attend personally this year’s VMworld in Barcelona. I feel very privileged to be able to attend as many folks don’t have that possibility and stays home. While I don’t have an employer, it’s still my employer (myself) who pays for the travel and expenses… But most importantly, […]
vSphere HA Slot Size and Admission Control Video
VMware has recently published 3 new videos. I wanted to point to the third one which is very good for understanding the very interesting topic about slot size and admission control. If you ever wondered what does exactly that HA cluster policy called “Host failures the cluster tolerates” or how to understand slot size calculations, […]
VMware vCloud Suite 5.5, vSphere 5.5 and ESXi 5.5 available for Download!
Yesterday VMware has finally released the final release of VMware vSphere 5.5 which is GA and available for download. The whole vCloud suite and vSphere products including ESXi 5.5 are available at VMware. After Friday’s aler through Twitter and VMware KB not to let the automatic update let upgrade the vSphere replication to 5.5 pre-release […]
VMware VSAN Beta Community opens the doors
A publicly available VMware VSAN beta community has been unveiled last week. You may have missed the news, so that’s why this post. VSAN beta community provides the latest news and informations about upcoming VMware VSAN. There are some PDF technical documents available there like VSAN datasheet or VSAN technical whitepaper. There is also an […]
Latency Sensitive Applications on vSphere 5.5 – Deployment and Best practices
Even though everyone is waiting for vSphere 5.5 GA code, the first papers starting to show up. If you’re regular reader of my blog, you remember my article which introduced new feature in vSphere 5.5 which talks about Latency Sensitive Applications on vSphere 5.5. Check out my other vSphere 5.5 features from dedicated VMware vSphere 5.5 […]
VCSA 5.5 Installation and configuration – Part 2
In the first part of the article we simply deployed the vCenter 5.5 VM from the OVF file – vCenter Server 5.5 Linux Appliance – Install/config . Fast and efficient. While we successfully integrated the VCSA to the Windows domain and we could see the computer account in the AD, we still had to log in with […]
VMware vFlash Read Cache (vFRC) configuration steps
Upcoming VMware vSphere 5.5 which has been announced during VMworld 2013 brought another interesting feature called vFlash Read Cache (vFRC). A special formatting is applied to each SSD in each host, and each SSD device is formatted with new filesystem called VFFS (Virtual Flash File System). This VFFS spans the cluster and forms a flash resource which […]
VMware VSAN configuration steps with nested ESXi hypervisors
You can test VMware VSAN configuration even if you don’t have 3 physical servers. By simply creating 3 virtual ESXi hosts (VMs) which run on the same box it’s possible to test VSAN. Each virtual ESXi needs to have at least one spinning disk and one SSD disk. You can also use a computer running VMware Workstation. […]
VMware vSphere 5.5 PDF Documents, Links and news
VMware vSphere 5.5 PDF summarizing vSphere 5.5 platform new features is available. It’s a just single page small PDF document showing principal features of vSphere 5.5. The vSphere 5.5 platform has been introduced during VMworld 2013, and it is about twice as big (concerning configuration maximums) compared to the previous release. This Quick Reference document is organized in […]
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