What’s new in vSphere 6 Scalability
In VMware vSphere 6 scalability has been improved both on the physical host as the virtual machine side. vSphere 6 doubles thealready impressive 5.5 values. Server scalability With this release VMware has increased the scalability substantially. vSphere 6 clusters can now support 64 hosts with 8.000…
What’s new in vSphere 6 Availability
Just when we thought that availability cloud not get any better VMware has made a huge step with vSphere 6 Availability by improving Fault Tolerance, vSphere Replication, Data Protection and MSCS clustering support. Fault Tolerance For me Fault Tolerance was one of the best and most…
What’s new in vSphere 6 vCenter Server
The improvements and new features in vSphere 6 vCenter Server is huge, see the extensive list below. vCenter Server The great news is, that the vCenter virtual appliance and the installable vCenter Server are on par. Meaning that the scalability and feature set of both vCenter…
What’s new in vSphere 6 vMotion Enhancements
VMware vSphere vMotion capabilities have been enhanced in this release, enabling users to perform live migration of virtual machines across virtual switches, across vCenter Server systems, and across long distances of up to 100ms RTT. These new vSphere vMotion enhancements enable greater flexibility when designing…
What’s new in vSphere 6 Storage
In vSphere 6 storage will change substantially with the introduction of Virtual Volumes (vVols) and Virtual SAN 6. vSphere vVols enables your external storage arrays to become VM-aware. Storage Policy-Based Management (SPBM) allows common management across storage tiers and dynamic storage class of service automation….
What’s new in vSphere 6 Networking
Here are the changes in vSphere 6 networking. As you can see there are not very many changes but the impact may be substancial. Network I/O Control With vSphere 6 VMware introduces Network I/O Control Version 3 which allows administrators or service providers reserve or…
What’s new in vSphere 6 pricing & packaging
Recently VMware announced some changes in the vSphere 6 Pricing. vSphere is available standalone or as a part of vSphere with Operations Management or vCloud Suite. For information on upgrading to vSphere 6.0, visit the vSphere Upgrade Center. vSphere 6 pricing & packaging In the chart below you…
VMware vRealize Rebranding
In the last quarter of 2014, VMware rebranded, their Cloud Management products with vRealize names. VMware vRealize Rebranding is complete now. Several customers asked me since then were some products have gone/are named. So after many requests I compared the products and compiled a table…
Virtualizing Oracle Databases on vSphere a book review
As VMGuru we are virtualizing all kind of business critical applications since 2005. Virtualizing Oracle Databases on vSphere is often part of those projects. I must express tho that none of us is an Oracle DBA, but we are often involved in virtualization projects were their…
VMware and Google team up on Enterprise Clouds
Pretty amazing news came out today. VMware and Google are to team up to accelerate enterprise clouds! VMware’s vCloud Air will incorporate Google’s Cloud DNS, Cloud Storage, Cloud Datastore and Bigquery. “Our collaboration will provide customers with a unique hybrid solution that combines the power…
vRealize Automation Management Pack for vRealize Operations Manager available now
VMware just released the vRealize Automation Management Pack for vRealize Operations Manager. The Management Pack for vRealize Automation extends operational management capabilities of the vRealize OperationsManager platform to provide tenant-aware operational visibility of the infrastructure supporting private clouds to cloud provider administrators. In addition to…
Technical Preview: CoreOS on vSphere 5.5
CoreOS is a new Linux distribution that has been re-architected to provide features needed to run modern infrastructure stacks. CoreOS is a new, lightweight Linux distribution that’s designed from the ground up to run containerized applications. The strategies and architectures that influence CoreOS allow companies like…
vRealize Orchestrator Cisco UCS Plugin is available now
VMware Orchestrator is a development and process-automation platform that provides a library of extensible workflows that allow you to create and run automated, configurable processes to manage the VMware vSphere infrastructure. Orchestrator uses its open plugin architecture to allow you to integrate with other management and…
Coffee as a Service with VMware Orchestrator
Coffee as a Service, (CaaS?) I guess we all have that in some form. Some have a kind lady bringing coffee, others have a kind collegue.. but that is not what this is about. What this is about, is vCenter Orchestrator, or vRealize Orchestrator as…
Put that USB Scanner in VMware Horizon View
Putting a USB Scanner to work in a VMware Horizon View environment always was a pain in the butt. Either images came into the session sooooooo slooooooow you had a caffeine shock by the time the scan was finished, or images were garbled and looked…