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VMware
Runecast Analyzer 1.7 vSAN Support Visualization Improvements and New Web Plugins
When it comes to supporting, maintaining, and operationalizing a VMware vSphere environment, everything needs to be carried out in accordance with best practices. VMware is the expert of their own product for obvious reasons and following what they document as…
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Backup Software
VMware Backup with Vembu BDR Suite v3.9 Virtual Appliance
Deploying VMware solutions via virtual appliances is a great way to quickly get up and running with a preconfigured environment from vendors. To coincide with the recent release of Vembu BDR Suite v3.9, Vembu has released preconfigured virtual appliances. This…
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home lab
Automate Documenting Used IP Addresses on my Network
When you are running quite a few VMs in your home lab environment, it can get tricky to keep up with the IP address that are in use and which virtual machines you have running on which IPs. While most…
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vSAN
Selected host is an external witness for another vSAN Stretched cluster
As VHT readers have seen lately, I have been doing a lot of home lab work with VMware vSAN and thoroughly enjoying it. The advancements that have been made in vSAN 6.6 and patch levels have truly made vSAN a…
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Processors
Is Meltdown fixed in Intel Xeon D-2100 Processor?
The Intel Meltdown vulnerability and then the more general and broad vulnerability in Spectre have certainly been one of the most talked about hardware security vulnerabilities in modern history. The past several weeks since the vulnerability was disclosed have been…
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vSAN
Configure HCI Bench for VMware vSAN Performance Testing
In the previous post, we took a look at what the HCI Bench utility is and how it is installed for testing VMware vSAN performance. It is the preferred tool for VMware vSAN performance testing and is at least the…
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vSAN
What is HCI Bench VMware vSAN Performance Benchmark utility?
When it comes to benchmarking VMware vSAN, especially with vSphere 6.5 update 1 and higher, there is really one standard tool that is utilized to benchmark proof of concept environments. The HCI Bench utility is the “gold standard” if you…
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vSAN
Update VMware vSAN Witness Appliance
I noted a warning on my home lab VMware vSAN environment noting a missing critical patch with vSAN and deduplication environments. The patch was referencing the VMware KB article for all-flash clusters with deduplication enabled. This fit my environment in…
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vSAN
VMware vSAN Witness Host Not Found
In continuing to work with the 2-node VMware vSAN stretched cluster in the home lab, I ran into a little issue with the network showing as partitioned and the witness host showing it was in STANDALONE mode when I could…
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vSAN
Configure vSAN Error Disk with VSAN uuid failed to appear in CMMDS
In configuring a 2-node VMware vSAN cluster with a Witness host I ran into a strange issue that took a bit of head scratching and Googling to figure out. However, the solution was actually fairly simple. In attempting to configure…
