Posts tagged "esxi"

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What's in PernixData FVP's secret sauce

Jul 31, 2014

Anyone who manages or architects a virtualisation environment battles against storage performance at some stage or another. If you run into compute resource constraints, it is very easy and fairly cheap to add more memory or perhaps another host to your cluster. Being able to add to compute incrementally makes it very simple and cost effective to scale. Networking is similar, it is very easy to...

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How Policy will drive the Software Defined Data Center

Jul 25, 2014

Many companies trying to take advantage of cloud computing are embracing the moniker of the "Software Defined Data Center" as one way to understand and communicate the benefits of moving towards an infrastructure resource utility model. ( has taken on the term SDDC to mean doing everything in your data center with software and not requiring any custom hardware. Other companies sell "software-de...

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HP updates its customised images for VMware ESXi 5.5/5.1

Oct 25, 2013

HP has updated its ESXi customised images to reflect the recent release of ESXi 5.5 as well as its ( HP's customised images are fully integrated sets of specific drivers and software that are tested to work together. You can see the list of ( I have done an extensive update of my ( post which includes these new customised images. HP Custom Image for VMware ESXi 5.5.0 GA - September 2013: HP Cus...

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What's New in vCloud Suite 5.5: Introduction

Aug 26, 2013

I would say that this is an evolutionary rather than revolutionary update being the third major release in the vSphere 5 family (5.0,5.1,5.5). There are however some significant storage additions such as Virtual SAN (VSAN) and VMware Virtual Flash (vFlash) as well as a new vSphere App HA to provide application software high availability which is in addition to vSphere HA. VMware has also respon...

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What's New in vCloud Suite 5.5: vCenter Server and ESXi

Aug 26, 2013

VMware has announced its latest update to version 5.5 of its global virtualisation powerhouse, vCloud Suite. To read the updates for all the suite components, see my post: ( vCenter Server has been tweaked with this upgrade keeping its two deployment options, installed on a Windows Server or as an appliance. VMware is strongly recommending using a single VM for all vCenter Server core component...

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What's New in vCloud Suite 5.5: vCenter Server SSO

Aug 26, 2013

VMware has announced its latest update to version 5.5 of its global virtualisation powerhouse, vCloud Suite. To read the updates for all the suite components, see my post: ( Evolving vCenter is a major undertaking as it was originally built as a monolithic platform with everything included in one place. VMware’s strategy is to pull out all the core central services from vCenter and have them ru...

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What's New in vCloud Suite 5.5: vCloud Networking & Security

Aug 26, 2013

VMware has announced its latest update to version 5.5 of its global virtualisation powerhouse, vCloud Suite. To read the updates for all the suite components, see my post: ( Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) is used to bond your physical network uplinks together to increase bandwidth, have better load balancing and improve link level redundancy. vSphere5.1 supported a simplified version...

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What's New in vCloud Suite 5.5: VMware Virtual Flash (vFlash)

Aug 26, 2013

VMware has announced its latest update to version 5.5 of its global virtualisation powerhouse, vCloud Suite. To read the updates for all the suite components, see my post: ( vFlash allows you to take multiple Flash devices in hosts in a cluster and virtualises them to be managed as a single pool. In the same way CPU and memory is seen as a single virtualised resource across a cluster, vFlash do...

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HP G7/Gen8 Blades: New Emulex firmware 4.2.401.2215 released

Jul 25, 2013

HP has released a new firmware version _4.2.401.2215_ of its Emulex OneConnect 10Gb Ethernet Controller which is used in HP G7 and Gen8 Blades. The built in LOM adapter names on a G7 Blade server are NC553i or NC551i and the Mezz card is NC554m. The CNA LOM added to a Gen8 Blade server is HP554FLB. This firmware is required if you are going to be using the new ( "HP Virtual Connect 4.01 Update:...

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HP Blade Emulex NC55X Nic firmware may cause network disconnections

May 29, 2013

HP has released an advisory saying that with versions of the Emulex Nic driver firmware pre _4.1.450.7_ Device Control Channel (DCC) may not work which could cause your blades with NC55x Nics to drop off the network if the upstream network connection fails. This has been an issue which has plagued HP blade networking since the beginning and was a particular problem with the G6 Broadcom Nics so...

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