Hardening – VM Security
The last decade virtualization has been rapidly adopted by almost any organization in the world and became a standard industry practice. You may deploy Veeam Backup & Replication components as either a physical or virtual server. For most organizations, virtual is the recommended deployment for…
Frequently asked questions for the vSphere Client (HTML5)
As you all may know, the vSphere Client (HTML5) is the preferred client these days for managing your vSphere environment. With the deprecation of the vSphere Client for Windows (aka the C# client) and the vSphere Web Client (aka the Flash client) there is really…
vSphere 5.5 End of Life: Now what?
It has been called out for about a year but the final date is really getting close: ESXi 5.5 is End of Life. Or as VMware puts it: The general end of support for vSphere 5.5. Version 5.5 may be the most installed version of…
vSphere 6 experiencing high packet loss
Since I have updated my lab environment to vSphere 6, I regularly get ‘Virtual machine is experiencing high number of received packets dropped‘ messages in vRealize Operations for all virtual machines in my environment. I canceled these alerts multiple times but the high packet loss errors always return….
VMware Tools unleashed
Until recently new builds of the VMware Tools where tied to the ESXi builds. After updating an ESXi host you would have the ability apply a new build of the VMware Tools to your virtual machines. Now VMware decided to untie the build releases, given…
VMware released Update 1 for vSphere 6 and much much more
Last week VMware released Update 1 for vSphere 6. But that was not the only update that was released. There was a real wave of updates for a whole range of products. Here’s recap of the updates that were published. Sit tight because it’s a…
vSphere 6 available for download NOW
On 2 February VMware announced new versions of a couple of core products that are available for download now. After a short period of waiting, the products are finally released for all of you to download, install and use. These are the products being released…
vSphere 5.5 Update 2 available now
A few moments ago VMware released vSphere 5.5 Update 2 which has a ton of enhancements. What’s new in vSphere 5.5 Update 2 Support for hosts with 6TB of RAM – vSphere 5.5 Update 2 starts to support hosts with 6TB of RAM. VMware vShield…
Sign up for the vSphere Beta now, It’s public!
Do you want to try the newest and latest in VMware technology? You want to play with cutting edge technology? Sign up for the vSphere 6 Public BETA! Join VMware’s newest vSphere Beta Program to help define the direction of the world’s most complete, trusted,…
VMware vCloud Suite 5.5, vSAN and NSX walk-through
VMware has launched three new websites which will help you to get up to speed with VMware vCloud Suite 5.5, vSAN and NSX. An extensive website gives you a detailed overview of the entire vCloud Suite with all the new features VMware released at VMworld….
Review: Synology Diskstation DS1513+ with VMware – Part 2
In part 1 we finished the hardware installation of the Synology and setup of the DSM software. In this part we will hook the Synology to the VMware vSphere 5.1 Lab environment. The Lab consist of a laptop with 32GB and 2 Quad core E5…
How does VMware vSphere 5.5 compare to the competition?
So how does VMware vSphere 5.5 compare to the competition? Yesterday VMware release vSphere 5.5 which includes many new features and enhancements, again raising the bar for the competition. But how does VMware vSphere 5.5 compare to Microsoft Server 2012 Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer 6.2 or RedHat…
vSphere 5 memory management explained (part 2)
As I said earlier this week, VMware memory management is still a topic which a lot of VMware administrators don’t understand. Tuesday I discussed the virtual machine memory allocation graphs. Today we will deal with VMware vSphere uses transparent page sharing (TPS), memory compression, host…
vSphere 5 memory management explained (part 1)
VMware memory management is still a topic which a lot of VMware administrators don’t understand. I often come across people who have no idea when VMware vSphere uses transparent page sharing (TPS), memory compression, host swapping or ballooning. They even mention disabling or removing the ballooning…