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vSphere 5.5 nuggets: vCenter Server Appliance limitations lifted! 27 Aug 2013 | 02:49 am
For those who haven’t seen it… the vCenter Server Appliance limitations that there were around the number of virtual machines and hosts are lifted. Where the vCenter Server Appliance with the embedded...
2013 VMware Fling Contest – Join in on the fun! 27 Aug 2013 | 01:44 am
Last year VMware organized the very first VMware Open Innovation Contest and it was a very successful contest which resulted in an awesome fling called “pro-active DRS”. The Open Innovation Contest is...
Introduction to vSphere Flash Read Cache aka vFlash 26 Aug 2013 | 09:32 pm
vSphere 5.5 was just announced and of course there are a bunch of new features in there. One of the features which I think people will appreciate is vSphere Flash Read Cache (vFRC), formerly known as ...
Introduction to VMware vSphere Virtual SAN 26 Aug 2013 | 09:17 pm
Many of you have seen the announcements by now and I am guessing that you are as excited as I am about the announcement of the public beta of Virtual SAN with vSphere 5.5. What is Virtual SAN, formerl...
Startup News Flash part 3 20 Aug 2013 | 09:51 pm
Who knew so quickly after part 1 and part 2 there would be a part 3, I guess not strange considering VMworld is coming up soon and there was a Flash Memory Summit last week. It seems that there is a b...
With a single Datastore can I still use HA’s Datastore heartbeating? 20 Aug 2013 | 03:34 am
I had a question last week around HA’s datastore heartbeating, the question was if datastore heartbeating still worked if you only have 1 datastore in your environment. I can understand where the ques...
Minimum bandwidth requirements per concurrent vMotion? 16 Aug 2013 | 02:39 pm
I have been digging for a long time now to figure out what the minimum bandwidth requirements are per concurrent vMotion. After a long time I finally managed to get a statement. In the past the statem...
ESXi “Management traffic” tickbox, what does it do? 14 Aug 2013 | 07:15 pm
I have seen this popping up various times over the last few years. That little tickbox on your VMkernel NIC that says “Management traffic” (aka management network) what is it for? What if I untick it,...
Startup News Flash part 2 13 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
First part of the Startup News Flash was published a couple of weeks ago, and as many things have happened I figured I would publish another. At times I guess I will miss out on a news fact or a new c...
My VMworld US 2013 schedule… 12 Aug 2013 | 05:01 pm
It seems that the dust has finally settled, it is clear what my VMworld schedule will look like. Well for now at least, as I will expect some “one on one” slots to be added, as part of the Expert trac...
