ESXTOP is an utility bundled with ESXi allowing to monitor/troubleshoot performance of network, CPU or storage. This post is about storage performance troubleshooting with ESXTOP. Se will focus on storage as many times the storage is the main problem of latency. A weakest performance element in the whole chain. VMs performs slowly, but where the…
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ESXi must be able to send and receive data from every vSphere Client. If you are attaching your ESXi host to vCenter Server, additional ports will be required. To enable migration and provisioning activities between managed hosts, the source and destination hosts must be able to receive data from each other. Also, if you are…
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VMware’s latest 6.0 version of the vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS) provides unparalleled networking features, control mechanisms, and new ways to construct a LAN topology. In this year’s version of one of the highest rated VMworld sessions, you’ll get front row seats to a deep dive on the VDS in a variety of real world use…
DetailsFew weeks back VMware has released a new paper detailing vCenter Server 6.0 Performance Best Practices. Also the PDF talks about the performance improvements of vCenter server 6 over vCenter server 5.5. The authors are Mike Stunes and Ravi Soundararajan from VMware. Differences in type of deployment platform (Windows or Linux) are compared too. What’s…
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Since NSX was launched in 2013, we have seen a steady expansion in the use cases that are addressed by network virtualization. Our initial focus was automation and reducing provisioning complexity in public and private clouds, and this continues to be a significant driver of adoption.The last 18 months have seen micro-segmentation and other security…
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VMware Cloud Automation: Design and Deploy Fast Track [V6.0] This training course focuses on designing and deploying an enterprise cloud by using a distributed architecture deployment of VMware vRealize Automation. The lecture and labs concentrate on designing an enterprise cloud architecture and the effective implementation of a vRealize Automation distributed deployment according to VMware recommended…
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With the release of vSphere 6 update 1, and Virtual SAN 6.1, VMware is expanding the capabilities of Virtual SAN as a platform and is introducing higher levels of enterprise availability and data protection of the solution. Virtual SAN 6.1 introduces the new feature Stretched Cluster. Virtual SAN Stretched Clusters provides customers with the ability to…
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VMware expanded its software-defined data center strategy with the introduction of its EVO SDDC software stack for managing storage, compute, networking and virtualization resources as a single system. EVO SDDC, previously known as EVO:RACK, can be used by OEMs to build integrated enterprise software-defined data center and cloud solutions that scale from one-third of a…
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Friends we are not lucky to be part of VMware festival aka VMworld 2015 but do not worry, we can watch the Videos (replay) in YouTube. Here is the list of Videos available. VMware Administrators can’t miss videos related to VMware NSX Deep Dive & VCSA Best Practices & Tips Tricks EUC5404…
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A free, downloadable solution for vSphere Web Client called Hybrid Cloud Manager, with optional fee-based capabilities, will be available for vSphere 6.0. Management through a “Single pane of glass”. To say that finally VMware will be releasing a plugin which will allow you to mange On premise infrastructure & at the same time the vCloud…
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