Virtualization
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VMware vSAN 6.7 Released with New Features
Well exciting news today. VMware vSAN 6.7 has been released and it is an exciting release for sure! It seems like any news surrounding vSAN is exciting however. VMware vSAN has had wild adoption in the enterprise and is continuing…
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What is VMware Cloud on AWS?
One of the most exciting new offerings from VMware is certainly the VMware Cloud on AWS offering that allows customers to run VMware SDDC on top of AWS infrastructure. If you have heard about this new offering from VMware and…
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VMware vSAN Learning Resources
With the wealth of resources available on the Internet, we all have a ton of learning resources at our fingertips when taking a technology and pulling it apart to see how it works and learn how to administer and operationalize…
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Troubleshooting Slow VMware Virtual Machine Power On Time
There comes times when you have a single ESXi host that you wish you didn’t! There are certain times when something that is simply for development or staging that supposedly isn’t production, but management may view it as production and…
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How VMware Backup Uses Snapshots
All who have been vSphere administrators for any amount of time will tell you, snapshots for the most part are evil! However, snapshots play a vital role in most vSphere infrastructures. When using them as designed and in a way that…
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Configuring Veeam Virtual Appliance Mode for VMware vSAN
When backing up VMware vSAN, data protection solutions can still take advantage of VMware vSphere Storage APIs – Data Protection as they do backing up virtual machines from any type of VMware storage as it is storage agnostic. There are…
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Opvizor VMware Performance Analyzer 4.8.0 Released New Features
Monitoring performance and health in a VMware vSphere environment is a critical task for vSphere administrators. Especially in larger environments, it can be a real challenge to keep a handle on overall vSphere environment health. Then there are other concerns…
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ControlUp VMware Performance and Health Monitoring
Quickly and easily finding issues within an environment, especially virtualized environments can be a challenge. Having the right utilities and tools can be extremely helpful in finding potential hotspots and having visibility to important KPIs within the environment. Today I…
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VMware VVol Testing with Dell EMC Unity VSA
Recently, I saw a post from Eric Siebert that got me to thinking again about VVols. Eric gives a good explanantion of why we haven’t seen this technology take off more than we have over the past couple of years.…
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Runecast Analyzer 1.7 vSAN Support Visualization Improvements and New Web Plugins
When it comes to supporting, maintaining, and operationalizing a VMware vSphere environment, everything needs to be carried out in accordance with best practices. VMware is the expert of their own product for obvious reasons and following what they document as…
