Virtualization
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How VMware Backup Uses Snapshots
All who have been vSphere administrators for any amount of time will tell you, snapshots for the most part are evil! However, snapshots play a vital role in most vSphere infrastructures. When using them as designed and in a way that…
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Configuring Veeam Virtual Appliance Mode for VMware vSAN
When backing up VMware vSAN, data protection solutions can still take advantage of VMware vSphere Storage APIs – Data Protection as they do backing up virtual machines from any type of VMware storage as it is storage agnostic. There are…
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Opvizor VMware Performance Analyzer 4.8.0 Released New Features
Monitoring performance and health in a VMware vSphere environment is a critical task for vSphere administrators. Especially in larger environments, it can be a real challenge to keep a handle on overall vSphere environment health. Then there are other concerns…
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ControlUp VMware Performance and Health Monitoring
Quickly and easily finding issues within an environment, especially virtualized environments can be a challenge. Having the right utilities and tools can be extremely helpful in finding potential hotspots and having visibility to important KPIs within the environment. Today I…
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VMware VVol Testing with Dell EMC Unity VSA
Recently, I saw a post from Eric Siebert that got me to thinking again about VVols. Eric gives a good explanantion of why we haven’t seen this technology take off more than we have over the past couple of years.…
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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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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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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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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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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…
