Posts tagged "vcenter"

39 posts

What's New in vSphere 6.0: Cross vCenter and Long Distance vMotion

Aug 26, 2014

_VMware has finally officially announced what is to be included in vSphere 6.0 after lifting the lid on parts of the update during VMworld 2014 keynotes and sessions._ _See my introductory post: ( for details of all the components._ vMotion is one of most basic yet coolest features of vSphere, People generally consider the time they saw vMotion work for the first time as their "wow" moment show...

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EVO: Rail - Integrated Hardware and Software

Aug 25, 2014

_VMware has announced it is entering the hyper-converged appliance market in conjunction with hardware partners for them to ship pre-built hardware appliances running VMware software. See my introduction, ( Each of the four EVO: RAIL nodes within a single appliance will have at a minimum the following: Each appliance is fully redundant with dual power supplies. As there are four ESXi hosts per...

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EVO: Rail - Management Re-imagined

Aug 25, 2014

_VMware has announced it is entering the hyper-converged appliance market in conjunction with hardware partners for them to ship pre-built hardware appliances running VMware software. See my introduction, ( VMware recognises that vCenter has had a rather large feature bloat problem over the years. They have introduced new components like SSO which do provide needed functionality but add to the...

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VMware Marvin comes alive as EVO:Rail, a Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Appliance

Aug 25, 2014

EVO(lution) is eventually going to be a suite of products/solutions, Rail is the first announcement named for the smallest part of a data center rack, the rail, so you can infer that VMware intends to build this portfolio out to an EVO:RACK and beyond. EVO:Rail combines compute, storage and networking resources into a _h_yper-_c_onverged _i_nfrastructure _a_ppliance with the intention to dramat...

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What VMware's EOL of vCenter Server Heartbeat means for availability?

Jun 6, 2014

In the ( VMware suggests first of all making your vCenter a VM to be able to take advantage of HA to provide high availability. If you cannot for some reason (and you really need to ask yourself why) run vCenter as a VM and it is/needs to be physical then the only solution is to use a backup solution to be able to restore vCenter if it fails. I wrote a post way back in November 2010, ( Based on...

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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 Orchestrator

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 Orchestrator has a generous update to be optimised for bigger and better clouds with significant improvements in scalability and high availability. There is now a more simplified and efficient development experience...

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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 Director

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: ( vCloud Director Virtual Appliance The vCloud Director Virtual Appliance is still only to be used for PoC and Eval use for simple deployment and setup. With the appliance you can choose to use an internal/embedded database o...

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