Virtualization
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VMware Site Recovery Manager 8.1 Creating and Managing Site Pairs
VMware’s native tool that is designed to provide data protection for an entire site is called Site Recovery Manager or SRM. It is a powerful tool that can be used in conjunction with native vSphere replication as well as third-party…
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VMware vSphere Platinum and vSphere 6.7 Update 1 Released New Features
Update The Download links for vSphere 6.7 Update 1 have been posted*** One of the major news items coming out of VMWorld and no doubt the first of many to come is the introduction of vSphere Platinum and vSphere 6.7…
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Runecast Analyzer 2.0 Released with History and VMware PCI-DSS Scanning Features
In the realm of automating VMware vSphere best practices, scanning for configuration issues, and helping organizations running on top of VMware vSphere stay on top of compliance concerns – Runecast is killing it! With each new version of the Runcast…
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Installing and Configuring VMware vSphere Replication 8.1 in vSphere 6.7
A crucial part of any disaster recovery is making sure production resources are able to be brought back online as quickly as possible. If you lose an entire site, you have to have a way to bring production virtual machines…
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VMware vSphere ESXi Storage Performance Troubleshooting
Recently, I was troubleshooting an issue with a production VMware vSphere cluster that was presenting with severe performance issues across the board. After triaging the symptoms of the performance issue it pointed to storage as being the culprit for the…
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VMware NSX Best Practices with Runecast Analyzer v1.8
Gaining best practice expertise is often limited to reading through various documentation, piecing together information gained from support calls, reading books, watching various tech videos, and just the plain old adage “from experience”. However, the list for that process for…
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Installing VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager SRM 8.1
One of the exiting recent announcements from VMUG was the addition of VMware’s Site Recovery Manager for vSphere being added to the catalog of downloable software for VMUG Advantage Subscribers. Since the announcement, among other things going on in the…
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Move VMware vSAN 6.7 Stretched Cluster to Different vCenter Server
In my home lab I have had several projects going on that have been slowly taking place over the past few weeks. One of those projects was getting my “prodution” vSphere vSAN cluster upgraded to vSphere 6.7 across the board…
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Opvizor Performance Analyzer New vSAN 6.7 Performance Analysis
VMware vSAN 6.7 has incredible performance improvements, especially over legacy versions of vSAN. For a VMware administrator, especially with larger environments, keeping a handle on potential performance bottlenecks and other performance hotspots can be challenging. VMware vSAN has already included…
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Replace or Change VMware vSAN Witness Host with vSphere 6.7 Appliance
VMware vSan is getting more and more powerful with each and every release. With the introduction of vSphere 6.7 and vSAN 6.7, the HTML5 UI has received more functionality, Windows Failover Clustering is now supported, and all new redeisinged adaptive…
