Technology Predictions 2018: The End of the BeginningTechnology Predictions 2018: The End of the...VMware’s Chris Wolf posits 2018 will be the year traditional IT needs to consider which side of history to be on.VMware Social Media Advocacy
Update VCSA 6.5
If you want to update your vCenter Server Appliance 6.5 (VCSA) there are many ways, here is one I use the most. Note: Before you start updating check all dependencies and interoperapilities! ESXi, vSAN, NSX, Horizon,vRealize and a lot of other VMware products as well as all 3rd party products using APIs and Interfaces of... Continue Reading →
Try the 30 minute VMware Cloud on AWS Hands-On Lab
Try the 30 minute VMware Cloud on AWS Hands-On LabTry the 30 minute VMware Cloud on AWS Hands-On LabSee the new VMware on AWS solution. Interact with the VMware Cloud interface to perform basic tasks and manage your public cloud capacity.VMware Social Media Advocacy
VMware growth accelerates as Amazon partnership…
VMware growth accelerates as Amazon partnership pays on-premises dividendsVMware growth accelerates as Amazon partnership...Between its struggles to build a public cloud presence and the perceived threat of containers to its virtualization empire, a lot of people have an waiting for VMware Inc. to hit a wall for the last couple of years. They’re going to... Continue Reading →
ESXTOP for vSAN
With vSphere 6.0 vSAN became a part of ESXTOP. By pressing "x" when in ESXTOP you can see what´s happening with your vSAN. ROLE NAME OF THE VSAN DOM ROLE READS/S READ... Continue Reading →
VMware Closes Acquisition of VeloCloud Networks
VMware Closes Acquisition of VeloCloud NetworksVMware Closes Acquisition of VeloCloud NetworksAs applications and data continue to be distributed more broadly from the data center to the edge, customers are increasingly relying on software-defined wide-area networks (SD-WANs) versus traditional networking for flexible, secure connectivity. It’s for this reason that I am pleased to share that we... Continue Reading →
VMware kills the flash based web client
RIP web client w/ flash! Together with the Windows vCenter Server the flash based web client will be history!! The HTML 5 web client will than be the one you need to use. https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2016/05/goodbye-vsphere-client-for-windows-c-hello-html5.html
Windows vCenter will be discontinued
RIP windows based vCenter Server! VMware has announced that next vCenter release will be the last one that come with Windows Support!! https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2017/08/farewell-vcenter-server-windows.html
Can the VCSA 6.5 forward to multiple syslog…
Can the VCSA 6.5 forward to multiple syslog targets? Can the VCSA 6.5 forward to multiple syslog... I had a couple folks ping me recently asking whether the latest vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) 6.5 release supports forwarding to multiple syslog targets? Currently today, only a single syslog target is officially supported which can be configured... Continue Reading →
vSAN sparse swap files
With vSAN 6.2 you can save a lot of capacity if you use the new feature called "sparse VM swap object". It will deploy the swap file of every VM stored in vSAN as sparse. So you are able to safe nearly all of your VMs RAM inside the vSAN datastore. Setup: Use SSH/Putty to... Continue Reading →