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DRS Affinity Rules for vSphere Storage Appliance
Based on a recent customer inquiry with regards to the use of DRS Affinity rules with vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA) 5.1 environments I wanted to shared with everyone my response based on this topic....
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VSA 5.1 Brownfield Deployment Video
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a series of articles on the VMware vSphere Storage blog about considerations for successful deployments of the vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA) 5.1 onto an existing vSphere...
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ESXTOP Data Display Issues with OSX Terminal Application
As an avid Mac and ESXTOP user and I’ve been experiencing some challenges using the Terminal application in OSX for sometime. The OSX Terminal tool is definitely one of my favorite built-in...
View ArticlevSphere Storage Appliance Cluster Service (VSACS) White Paper
Categories: Cool Stuff!, News, Storage, Virtualization, VMwareNew vSphere Storage Appliance white paper available. The paper is focused on the vSphere Storage Appliance Cluster Service (VSACS) ROBO...
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Austin, Texas VMUG
Alright!!!! VMware community members and followers, If you’re anywhere near Austin, Texas on April 2nd come an join us for a day of fun and knowledge transfer at the VMware User Group (VMUG). The event...
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VSA Upgrade Required after Applying vCenter Server 5.1U1 Patch
Heads up folks! for those of you that are using the vSphere Storage Appliance 5.1.1 (VSA). If you have or are planning to apply the vCenter Server 5.1U1 patch, you must also upgrade the Sphere Storage...
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vOpenData and Storage Dashboard
By now a great deal of folks in the community have heard and know about vOpenData and what it is, who is behind this cool project and what it does. For those of you who don’t know what vOpenData is or...
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Getting Thin (on Thin) “It’s your Responsibility”
Recently while at EMC World I’ve been feeling more like a P90X fitness coach (I wonder who they have me confused with) than a technologist with the number of question I’ve been getting from customers...
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Thin Provisioning and Fragmentation
After a recent post summarizing my thoughts around on thin-on-thin provisioning there were a few comments on the Twitterverse (shout outs to @trodemaster) expressing concerns about VMDK fragmentation...
View ArticleNew vSphere Storage Appliance Brownfield Deployments White Paper
Categories: Cloud Computing, Cool Stuff!, News, Storage, Virtualization, VMwareTags: VSA, VSA 5.1A new vSphere Storage Appliance brownfield deployments white paper is now available. The paper is...
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PowerCLI – Change Virtual Machines Guest OS Names
As of lately I’ve been working and testing some new products agility and scalability capabilities around virtual machine provisioning in large numbers. One of my tests was to the deployment of 1000...
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VMworld 2013 Sessions
Well its official, the word is out. VMworld 2013 sessions have been announced and from the looks of it I will be attending both US and Barcelona again this year (hopefully I won’t fall a sleep...
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Ruby vSphere Console (RVC) SyntaxError
As of lately I’ve been playing around with some of the many management tools and that are available from VMware. One nifty tool that I’ve decided to start using a bit more due to top secret reasons is...
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VMware Sessions @ OpenStack Summit, Vote!
Here at VMware we have been busy making sure that your favorite VMware products, from old-standbys like vSphere + vCenter to new technologies like NSX, VSAN, and vCOPs, all work well with OpenStack. As...
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Introducing vSphere Flash Read Cache
VMworld 2013 starts with bang!!!!! with the announcement and release of vSphere Flash Read Cache (vFRC). vFRC is VMware’s VM-centric data service caching solution in vSphere 5.5, which fits into the...
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vSphere 5.5: vSphere Ruby Console
The release of vSphere 5.5 includes the support and availability of the vSphere Ruby Console (RVC). RVC is an interactive object oriented command line interface utility based on the Ruby programming...
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New vSphere OpenStack Virtual Appliance (VOVA) – Havana Release
Folks we are very excited to announce the release of new version of vSphere OpenStack Virtual Appliance (VOVA) based on the new OpenStack Havana release. This release contains several additional...
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vCenter Web Client Plug-in for OpenStack Demo
Earlier this week I published an article announcing the availability of the new Havana version of the vSphere OpenStack Virtual Appliance and the vCenter Web Client Plug-in for OpenStack. For those of...
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Getting Started with OpenStack and VMware vSphere White Paper
Folks! it’s finally here. The first official Getting Started OpenStack and VMware vSphere White Paper. This paper is focus around the ease of deployment and integration of OpenStack frameworks onto...
View ArticlevSphere OpenStack Virtual Appliance (VOVA): Product Walkthrough Demos
Categories: Cloud Computing, OpenStack, Virtualization, VMware Tags: OpenStack+vSphere, vCloud Suite, VOVA I’ve created a new set of vSphere OpenStack Virtual Appliance (VOVA) walkthrough demos for...
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