Tag: vsphere
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How to Convert vSphere to VCF 9 with the Converge Workflow (VCF 9 Series, Part 13)
Converging a standalone vSphere environment into a VCF 9 management domain is mostly about clearing the right prerequisites before you launch the Installer. Here is the runbook, the blockers that stop a converge cold, and the version matrix.
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VCF 9 Adoption Paths: When to Converge, Import or Start Fresh (VCF 9 Series, Part 12)
VCF 9 offers four adoption paths from vSphere. Here is how converge, import, expand and greenfield differ, plus a decision matrix and tree to choose the right one for your estate.
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5 Things That Break VKS Clusters in VCF 9 (and How to Fix Them)
Most vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS) failures in VCF 9 aren’t Kubernetes bugs—they’re infrastructure. Here are the 5 things that break VKS clusters most often and how to diagnose each one fast.
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How vSAN ESA Global Deduplication in VCF 9 Cuts Storage TCO by 34%?
If you’ve ever run out of storage space in your data center or just paid the bill for another batch of SSDs, you know how costly scaling storage can be. But with VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0, a new feature called vSAN ESA Global Deduplication is changing the storage game. And it’s not just a…
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Big News for VMUG Advantage Members: Free ANS Licenses Are Here!
Hey tech folks! If you’re a VMUG Advantage member (or thinking about becoming one), there’s a seriously cool update you need to know about. You can now get free personal-use licenses for some of VMware’s advanced networking and security tools—yep, totally free—as long as you’re certified. So, if you’ve passed the VCP-VCF exam, this perk…
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What’s New in VMware Cloud Foundation 9: A Unified Leap in Private Cloud Infrastructure
VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9 marks a significant evolution in VMware’s private cloud platform. With this release, VMware delivers on its long-standing vision: a truly unified platform that tightly integrates compute, storage, networking, automation, and operations. This white paper explores the major innovations introduced in VCF 9, including advanced memory tiering, global deduplication, native replication,…
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How to Upgrade from Windows vCenter 5.5 to VCSA 6.5 including SRM
In last couple of days, I heard this question many times for below scenario. Since 5.5 is about to expire this month, so IT admins are upgrading their environment to new version of vSphere. Though going directly to 6.7 is something that do not meet N-1 requirement for most of the environment. Hence most of…
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How VMware HA Works | Deep Dive
Overview of HA (High Availability): – When you creates HA cluster very first time, then Virtual Machines are configured with cluster default settings. VM Restart Priority Host Isolation Response VM Monitoring There is master host election when the cluster is first created. All other hosts are slaves. Master host is responsible for monitoring the host…
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How VMware HA Works | Deep Dive
Overview of HA (High Availability): – When you creates HA cluster very first time, then Virtual Machines are configured with cluster default settings. VM Restart Priority Host Isolation Response VM Monitoring There is master host election when the cluster is first created. All other hosts are slaves. Master host is responsible for monitoring the host…
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Exploring VMware vSphere Platinum
Hey All, Good Day! I hope you are getting some fruitful articles over here. Today We are going to explore VMware vSphere Platinum and vSphere 6.7 Update 1 which VMware has introduced today itself. While checking the updates on Day 1 of VMworld 2018, I came to know of this announcement so thought to write…
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Understand L1 Terminal Fault (L1TF) – Impact and Mitigation Plan for VMware Admins
Overview of L1TF Vulnerabilities: – Intel has disclosed on 14th Aug 2018 new class of three CPU speculative-execution vulnerabilities within its server, client and workstation processors, known as “L1 Terminal Fault (L1TF)” which can occur on past and current Intel processors (from at least 2009 – 2018) The processor vulnerability goes by L1TF, L1 Terminal…
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