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vCenter (VCSA) on vSAN or local disks?
Recently I had an interesting discussion with my customer about vCenter (already VCSA) location that is not dependent on the central storage system (array) but prepared for high availability and...
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Mixed version of ESXi hosts in the vSphere cluster?
I had a discussion with my colleague about mixed version of ESXi hosts. Our customer needed to migrate their vSphere environment from version 5.1 (caused of End of Support Life) to the latest version...
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vExpert 2017: NSX and vSAN awarded.
Some days ago VMware announced a list of vExperts 2017 on NSX and vSAN track. I would like to announce that I am honoured to be selected this year! Just for a quick reminder on vExpert: The VMware...
View ArticleVeritas NetBackup 8.1 is GA - what's new and my favorite features
Veritas released a new version of their core product - NetBackup 8.1. This version provides some interesting features however not for VMware. There are only a few improvements such as the possibility...
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VMware NSX Endpoint - preparing for antivirus protection
As I already mentioned, since NSX 6.2.3, all vSphere customers with Essential Plus or higher can use NSX Edpoint for antivirus offloaded protection. When you deploy NSX Manager and register it to...
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How to configure smart card logon on vSphere 6.5?
Recently I configured a smart card authentication for vCenter Server 6.5. I have to admin that configuration is simple, however there is an important point - using a correct certificate format. When...
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Rubrik - a software-defined platform for modern datacenter?
I look at new data protection companies and one of them is Rubrik. A couple months ago I had a pleasure and honour to attend at the Cloud Field Day 2 when Chris Wahl, Rebecca Fitzhugh and Andrew Miller...
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Useful tools on how to troubleshoot Virtual SAN (vSAN)
During VMworld this year, I attended at nice session on vSAN troubleshooting tips. There are some tools that help us to find a root of problem: esxcli RVC Health Check vSAN Observer vRealize Operations...
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FTF 003: VMware NSX - Hosts with Error status
A couple of days ago I had a small problem with NSX and firewall rules that did not work properly. During checking NSX Status via Web Client I found - Error status on Distributed Firewall (DFW) status...
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Deep visibility of cloud by Gigamon
A couple months ago I had a pleasure and honor to attend at the Cloud Field Day 2. One of presenting companies was Gigamon which showed their solutions for public/hybrid cloud. Gigamon was founded in...
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What's new and how to one click upgrade to NSX 6.4.x ?
This month VMware released NSX 6.4.0. This version provides many features, improvements and bug fixes. What's new in NSX 6.4.0? Following Release Notes we can find some interesting features and...
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HPE - InfoSight and Cloud Volumes
Last year I had a pleasure and honor to attend at the Cloud Field Day 2. During this event, HPE presented two solutions: InfoSight and Cloud Volumes. HPE InfoSight InfoSight is a solution taken from...
View ArticleFTF 004: VMware NSX - The Upgrade Version operation failed
Recently during updating one of NSX environment from version 6.3.3 to 6.3.5 I faced the following error: The Upgrade Version operation failed for the entity with the following message....
View ArticleFTF 005: Replacing default vSphere 6.x certificates with CA signed SSL - my tips
Recently I have done some projects where replacing default vSphere certificates with CA signed SSL was required. I think some of you remember how managing certificates were hard in prior vSphere...
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A simplified upgrades - my summary of last VMware's releases
Some weeks ago VMware released NSX version 6.4 which introduced an Upgrade Coordinator - a single portal to simplify the planning and execution of an NSX upgrade. We should expect further steps to make...
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Integration PowerChute Network Shutdown with VMware
Recently during checking news on VMware Solutions Exchange page, I found that useful info is available there PowerChute Network Shutdown v4.3 for VMware. This software supports the graceful shutdown...
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Veritas Resiliency Platform (VRP) - a DR solution
Nowadays, disaster recovery is an important thing in every company. Heterogeneous environments and applications based on virtual, physical or cloud components bring an additional opportunity to create...
View ArticleFTF 010: How to change IPs on infrastructure when NSX is installed?
Yesterday we needed to re-address VMware environment - Management, vMotion and VXLAN. This is not a complex task until you have NSX installed in your datacenter. NSX VXLAN addresses reorganization...
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FTF 011: vSAN and mixed storage policies
This post is a feature request for vSAN One of my customers has a 4-nodes vSAN all-flash cluster. They use compression, deduplication and RAID 5 for non-critical VMs/vmdk and RAID 1 for critical. RAID...
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What's new in Zerto 8.0
Zerto founded in 2009 is a company that I faced the first time around 2012. The company is known because of their Zerto IT Resilience Platform which providing disaster recovery, data protection for...
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