VMware vSphere 5.5 introducing larger virtual disk size (up to 62Tb) which requires ESXi 5.5, where existing VMDKs can be grown (offline). Those large VMDKs are supported also on the newly released vSAN datastores. You can grow the VMDKs, but for now its an offline process. VMware has it on the roadmap on the future […]
VMware VSAN introduced in vSphere 5.5 – How it works and what’s the requirements?
VMware vSAN allows presenting locally attached storage (SSD and HDD) to create clustered datastore. VMware vSAN is a software feature is built into the hypervisor. To be able to leverage VMware vSAN, you’ll need to associate at least one HDD and one SSD in each of the servers participating in the vSAN cluster, where the […]
VMware vSphere 5.5 vFlash Read Cache with VFFS
New version of VMware vSphere has introduced VMware vFlash Read cache, which enables you to use local SSD devices pooled together forming a pool of storage tier. The vFlash is integrated with vMotion, HA and DRS. The solution, the vFlash caching software, is tightly integrated into the hypevizor (placed into the data path), as an […]
vCD 5.5 – VMware vCloud Director 5.5 New and enhanced features
Together with the all the announcements around new vSphere 5.5 and vCloud Suite, also vCloud Director 5.5 (VCD 5.5 ) introduces several improvements and enhancements. One of the new enhancement is the content catalog usability improvements, where sharing capabilities are improved together with possibility to add remote catalogs or catalogs son external storage. vCD 5.5 […]
VMware vSphere 5.5 – Storage enhancements and new configuration maximums
VMware vSphere 5.5 released and brings many enhancements, which are introduced with new virtual hardware version 10 (VMX-10). It brings new configuration maximums for ESXi hosts, clusters and VMs, by introducing Virtual Hardware version 10 (vmx-10) which allows to use larger VMDKs, larger number of CPUs and memory. Virtual Machine Hardware Version 10 (vmx-10) – There […]
VMware vCenter Server 5.5 Enhancements – Linux version supports up to 100 ESXi hosts now
vCenter Server 5.5 has brings new functions within the vSphere Web Client faster UI and improved (simplified) Single Sign On installations and deployments. The user interface of the vSphere web client is faster, has more functions and brings support for Mac OSX. SSO can handle multi domain access and also the deployment options are simplified […]
VMware NSX Introduced – Network Virtualization Platform
VMware Blog published first details about NSX – Network Virtualization Platform some time ago. But during VMworld we should assist to many news about this revolutionary upcoming product. After successfully virtualizing physical servers and systems, VMware will now allow virtualize network, and will be multi-platform compatible. This article is not a deep dive, but I’ll try […]
VCAP5-DCD Official Cert Guide, Premium Edition eBook and Practice Test
VCAP5-DCD Official Cert Guide, Premium Edition – for VMware admins willing to prepare to pass VCAP5-DCD (datacenter design), there is a new book written by Paul McSharry (VCI). There are two editions of this book available where the paper one has a DVD included with Pearson IT Certification Practice Test engine. The eBook has an online […]
vSphere Portable Management Toolbox – vPi by Xtravirt
vPi is a nice portable Management toolbox created by Xtravirt, for VMware admins. This toolbox which can be installed on Rapsberry Pi pocket computers, is packed with opensource tools and scripts for managing and monitoring VMware vSphere environments, so it’s kind of “Swiss knife” for Virtualization consultants or IT admins. The toolbox can be downloaded as […]
Virtualizing Microsoft Business Critical Applications on VMware vSphere
New book by VMware press – Virtualizing Microsoft Business Critical Applications on VMware vSphere. This book written by Matt Liebowitz and Alex Fontana guides you and gives you tips for virtualizing Microsoft business critical applications on VMware vSphere. The book is available from Amazon as a Paperback ($40.74) or Kindle edition ($41.99) and covers advanced topics […]
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