VMware ESX News & Support Resources

April 20, 2018

On January 2018, Veeam publicly announced the release of Veeam PN (powered network) version 1, a lightweight SDN appliance that was released completely FREE to use. And while Veeam PN was released as part of a greater solution focused on extending network Availability for Microsoft Azure, Veeam PN can also be deployed as a standalone tool via […]

New VMware KB articles published for week ending 11th February 2018

February 14, 2018

VMware

VMware vRealize Operations for Published Applications V4PA Broker agent utility controller credentials entries get removed Date Published:2018/2/5 VMware ESXi Windows Server version 1709 crashes or restarts automatically when hot adding vCPU Date Published:2018/2/5 16.04 VM (from .ova file) hangs at “non blocking pool is initialized” during booting Date Published:2018/2/6 VMware Tools ‘VMware Tools user service’ […]

Cloud Wars – IBM vs Microsoft vs Google vs Amazon IaaS

February 13, 2018

IT Blog by Marius Sandbu

In my previous blog post I did a short overview of the different cloud vendors, a bit about their focus areas and also a bit about strengths and weaknesses. The blogpost can be found here –>http://bit.ly/2CrBgZA .In this post I want to focus more on IaaS and the offerings surrounding it, first I want describe […]

Hyper-V Backup Guide for VMware Administrators

February 13, 2018

NAKIVO

With Microsoft Hyper-V gaining more market share and coming of age, VMware administrators are finding themselves having to administer Hyper-V alongside vSphere in their environments. There are certainly similarities in administering the various hypervisors, including VMware and Hyper-V, but there are also subtle (if not more major) differences as well. Often, out of habit, we […]

Decoupling of Cores per Socket from Virtual NUMA Topology in VMware vSphere 6.5

February 5, 2018

opvizor

There are some pretty interesting and helpful blog posts available at the moment and we would like to share some information regarding our new release of Performance Analyzer. You can find here an interesting post from Frank Denneman or just scroll down for more information. Some changes are made in ESXi 6.5 with regards to sizing […]

Using esxtop to identify storage performance issues for ESX / ESXi

January 14, 2018

opvizor

VMware published a very helpful article about esxtop and latency statistics that can be found here. We would like to share the information, for comments and feedback please go to the original article. You can also find a YouTube video there. This article provides information about esxtop and latency statistics that can be used when troubleshooting performance issues […]

Internet of Things (IoT)

Internet of Things (IoT)

NAKIVO Helps a Hosting Provider Save €25,000 in Backup Cost

January 8, 2018

NAKIVO

Phi Medien Systeme GmbH, a hosting and cloud services provider, headquartered in Jülich, Germany, is using NAKIVO Backup & Replication to back up and near-instantly recover VMware VMs with Flash VM Boot, while also saving €25,000 in backup costs. NAKIVO Inc., a fast-growing software company for protecting virtualized and cloud environments, has announced today that […]

Intel Design Bug – What about VMware ESXi and VMs?

January 5, 2018

opvizor

By now probably everyone with an internet access who read news in the last couple of days noticed the bad Intel design bug that is affecting millions or even billions of devices, server and client computer. While potential hacker might not be extremely interested spending time to bother personal computer and mobiles, the situation changes […]

COZZINI Saves 40% on VM Backup Costs by Selecting NAKIVO

January 5, 2018

NAKIVO

OZZINI LLC., a leading provider of food processing equipment, headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, is using NAKIVO Backup & Replication installed on a Synology NAS to back up and recover VMware VMs, while reducing VM backup budget by 40%. NAKIVO Inc., a fast-growing software company for protecting virtualized and cloud environments, has announced today that COZZINI […]

Understanding VMware ESXi Queuing and the Flasharray

January 5, 2018

opvizor

So I am in the middle of updating my best practices guide for vSphere on FlashArray and one of the topics I am looking into providing better guidance around is ESXi queue management. This breaks down to a few things: Array volume queue depth limit Datastore queue depth limit Virtual Machine vSCSI Adapter queue depth […]

VMware Tools 10.2.0 enables Virtual Machine vNIC exclusion and priority re-ordering

January 3, 2018

opvizor

Another very good and helpful article from William Lam, please find his complete post incl. comments here and scroll down for more information. VMware Tools 10.2.0 just GA’ed (release notes / download and open-vm-tools release notes / open-vm-tools download) and this release includes a number of new features like an offline bundle for VMware Tools VIB for ESXi and support for […]

Migrate Hyper-V VMs to AWS with AWS Server Migration Service

December 20, 2017

Amazon Web Services

The ability to migrate Hyper-V VMs to AWS using AWS Server Migration Service is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) region. With this launch, you can now migrate virtual machines running in on-premises virtualization stacks from both Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware ESX/ESXi environments. AWS Server Migration Service is an agentless service that makes it […]

Datrium The Only Convergence Platform to Achieve FIPS 140-2 Cryptographic Certification

December 18, 2017

MyVirtualCloud.NET by Andre Leibovici

Datrium’s Blanket encryption is an already an industry-first, providing software-based (without hardware dependencies) end-to-end encryption. Datrium’s client software runs as part of the hypervisor and is uniquely able to provide cluster-wide encryption domain with full data services, such as compression, de-duplication, and erasure coding. The encryption covers ESXi, RedHat Enterprise Virtualization and CentOS KVM host […]

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