Virtualization
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Configure VMware vSphere Encryption Key Management Server Cluster
One of the exciting features with vSphere 6.5 is the ability to perform virtual machine encryption. We have already taken a look at Hytrust KeyControl as a great way to perform virtual machine encryption. When thinking about virtual machine encryption…
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Delete VMware Distributed Virtual Switch The Resource Is In Use
Recently, in working with the home lab environment, moving hosts around, playing around with various networking, etc, I ran into an issue with a distributed virtual switch (DVS) I had configured. The problem started with a host that was forcibly…
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VMware Performance Impact of Meltdown and Spectre Patches
Update 3.20.2018 – VMware has released vSphere 6.5 U1G which has a newly released microcode update Update 1.17.2018 – Firmware Updates and Initial Performance Data for Data Center Systems Update 1.13.2018 – Due to recent Intel sighting VMware now recommending…
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Perform Live Backups of VMware Workstation Virtual Machines
There are many products out there that support live backups of enterprise hypervisors such as VMware ESXi and Microsoft Hyper-V and others. However, you are hard pressed to find a product that is able to perform live backups of VMware…
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What is VMware Storage vMotion and How It Works
One of many hypnotic appeals to leveraging virtual infrastructure is the ability to move workloads around without any downtime. This is certainly true with the VMware vMotion operation that hooked most of us on virtualization the first time we were…
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Change Boot Drive to NVMe Storage Controller in VMware Workstation 14
As with ESXi 6.5, VMware Workstation 14 has introduced support for the new NVMe storage controller. The new NVMe storage controller allows ones to take advantage of the ultra fast NVMe backed datastores afforded by today’s NVMe drives. If you…
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Opvizor Performance Analyzer VMware Performance Monitoring
Monitoring your vSphere environment at the cluster, host, or virtual machine level is key in understanding where performance bottlenecks may exist and why production workloads may not be performing adequately. In addition, monitoring certain vSphere metrics can also help to…
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Hytrust VMware Virtual Machine Encryption
As we have covered in previous posts, VMware virtual machine encryption requires an external key manager. There has been work done to allow testing this feature out by way of a cool docker container key manager. However for those really…
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Tools to Improve Virtual Machine Performance
One of the key areas that a VMware virtualization administrator must key in on with his or her vSphere environment is performance. After all if the production workloads running in the virtualized environment are not running with adequate performance, problems…
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Setup and Configure VMware vSphere 6.5 Storage I/O Control
When managing and maintaining a VMware vSphere environment, keeping an eye on storage and storage I/O is extremely important. In most virtualization environments where shared SAN storage is in place, it is not uncommon to see storage I/O resources exhausted…
