Tag: vSphere

  • What’s New in VMware vSphere 6.5

    The big virtualization news from the past week or so was definitely the release and General Availability of VMware vSphere version 6.5, available for download now. New features include: Improvements to vCenter Server 6.5 Transition to Web Client-only Improved host management Enhancements to VMware Tools vRealize Operations Manager updated to 6.4 Enhancements to the API,…

  • GeekFluent Round-up of VMware Announcements from Monday of Partner Exchange

    I’m at the VMware Partner Exchange conference now. The pre-conference boot camps have finished up, and the “main” conference is starting. As part of the pre-conference events, VMware made several product announcements, including: vSphere 6.0 vCloud Air Hybrid Cloud Extensions VMware Integrated OpenStack (VIO) VSAN 6.0 I’ll give an overview of each below.

  • GeekFluent Round-up of VMware’s Announcements from Monday of VMworld 2014

    I’m here at VMworld 2014 and this year VMware has gone above and beyond. Monday’s opening keynote included more new product announcements than any other VMworld I’ve attended (I’ve been going yearly since 2009). Such a massive flow of info can be hard to keep up with without a program. Below you’ll find my summary…

  • Use Your Windows Laptop to Make a Bootable USB Key for vSphere Installations

    Have you ever wanted to install ESXi on a host that doesn’t have a CD-ROM drive?  Maybe you also don’t have a TFTP server, so installing over the network isn’t an option either.  I came across this situation at a customer site recently. It turns out the easiest solution in this situation is to convert…

  • VMware Releases vCenter Multi-Hypervisor Manager

    VMware has added the ability to manage non-vSphere hypervisors to vCenter with the release of vCenter Multi-Hypervisor Manager 1.0. At the moment, the only non-VMware hypervisor it supports is Microsoft’s Hyper-V (although in both the 2008 and 2008 R2 flavors), so the Multi-Hypervisor name seems ambitious.  I say we should keep in mind that this…

  • Running VMware View? Hold Off on Upgrading to vSphere 5.1

    I know we’re all excited to get at all the new features of vSphere 5.1 now that it’s available for download, but if you’re currently running VMware View, you should hold off for now. At the moment, vSphere 5.1 is not certified to work with any version of View. You can see a list of…

  • What Will VAAI v2 Do for You? Part 2 of 2: NFS

    This post is the second of two describing the features of the VMware vSphere Storage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI) version 2 as it works with vSphere 5.  If you missed the first part, you can read it here: What Will VAAI v2 Do for You? Part 1 of 2: Block Part 1 Review My…

  • What Will VAAI v2 Do for You? Part 1 of 2: Block

    Recently, someone pointed out to me that it was high time for me to write a follow-up to my “What Will VAAI Do for You?” posting.  Written shortly after the launch of VMware vSphere 4.1, it is my most-read post on the Everything VMware at EMC Community. Since I wrote it, though, VMware has released…

  • EMC VFCache (Project Lightning) in a VMware Environment

    [UPDATE: 4 September 2012: This post refers to VFCache at the time of launch and is outdated now that EMC has released VFCache 1.5. You can read my post about that release here.] Today, EMC announced their much-anticipated server-side Flash product, Project Lightning, under its official name, VFCache. Lots of folks are writing about VFCache…