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What is Zerto Commit Policy?

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I’m sure you’ve heard about Zerto before. ESX Virtualization readers know Zerto’s technology since a long time. Their “no-snapshot” technology when it comes to replication is unique. We have covered this in many posts and installed their product in our lab quite a few times. In today’s post, we will focus on something called Commit Policy – What […]

How to reset root password in vCenter Server Appliance 6.5

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The way to reset VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) password has changed every time that VMware changed the underlying Operating system (OS). Previous releases of VCSA has used CentOS or SLES, but since VCSA 6.5, the Operating system is PhotonOS. A VMware’s Own OS. This is an occasion to put down a post which might […]

How to patch VMware VCSA 6.5 via ISO patch downloaded from VMware Patch Portal

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VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) 6.5 can be patched and (or) upgraded in several ways. We have already installed latest patch via ZIP file downloaded from within My VMware space, but today we’ll explore another way to patch VCSA. We will learn How to patch VMware VCSA 6.5 via ISO patch downloaded from VMware Patch Portal. […]

What is VMware vSphere Hypervisor?

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VMware virtualization is based on a bare-metal hypervisor platform and the base product ESXi is also called VMware vSphere Hypervisor. Those days there is many hypervisors out there, but the more ancient and more adopted is the one from VMware. Microsoft’s Hyper-V hypervisor is another example of hypervisor used. Today we’ll focus on What is VMware […]

What is VMware Storage DRS (SDRS)?

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Today we’ll get more details about another VMware technology called Storage DRS (SDRS). Storage DRS allows you to manage the aggregated resources of a datastore cluster, which means that you can balance a space and I/O load between different datastores within a datastore cluster. Also, SDRS manages the initial placement of virtual disks based on space […]

What is VMware Orchestrated Restart?

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VMware Orchestrated Restart has been introduced in vSphere 6.5. This built-in feature allows multi-tier VMs to be restarted with the right order in case of host failure. Those VMs can be placed on different hosts, either automatically via DRS or manually, via vMotion. VMware orchestrated restart is not referring to single host VM start priority […]

Starwind Virtual SAN New Release with NUMA Support and Flash Cache Optimization

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Starwind software has released new version build of their flagship software product Starwind Virtual SAN. As we reported in our previous posts, a Free or paid version of Starwind Virtual SAN is available within their offering. The free and “self-support” is a bit limited but viable for some basic scenarios, and if you invest into some […]

How to patch VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) from Offline Depot ZIP file

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Today we’ll show you how to patch vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) from Offline Depot. As you might notice, a new version of VCSA 6.5a has been released, as well as ESXi 6.5a, supporting VMware NSX 6.3. The VCSA 6.5 become more attractive when it comes built-in features. We have detailed the deployment and setup, built-in […]

How to configure ESXi 6.5 Network Time Protocol (NTP) via Host Client?

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ESXi host client is bundled with VMware Free ESXi Hypervisor. While we still have the possibility to manage single host via traditional vSphere Client (Windows based), it becomes clear that sooner or later the legacy client will be gone. That’s why this post – How to configure ESXi 6.5 Network Time Protocol (NTP) via Host Client […]