Last couple of weeks were definitely busy for the VMware developers. Not only they released vSphere 6.7 U1. They were also busy fixing two critical data corruption bugs: when running VM snapshots on VMFS after disk extends using vSAN 6.6 and later Another important fixed issue is VM escape possibility… Continue reading
In this article I would like to show you how to replace failed HDD (or SSD) drive in VMware vSAN cluster running on Softlayer Cloud. 1. Open web-client and navigate to: Hosts and Clusters -> choose Cluster -> Manage -> Settings -> Virtual SAN -> Disk Management You will see all… Continue reading
Situation: we are in a cloud environment using bare metal servers installed with VMware vSphere, VMware vSAN and VMware NSX. Cloud Backup is a topic of this article and architecture decision was made in a way to have a possibility to restore servers immediately in case of VMware vSAN failure.… Continue reading
Background This will be a short article for those who need to replace the driver used for MegaRAID SAS 9361-8i on ESXi 6. MegaRAID SAS 9361-8i is the default controller used in Softlayer and if your plan is to run vSphere 6 with VSAN on it, you need to know some… Continue reading
SoftLayer local disk performance SATA/vSAN/SSD What disk performance you can expect from local drives in Softlayer with VMware vSphere6, vSAN & local SATA or SSD drives? This article is here to help you see and decide if performance will be enough for your needs. I have 3 hosts with: hardware… Continue reading
UPDATE: I do not recommend using this guide for any future deployment. The information included is quite outdated and is not relevant anymore. The article should only be used as reference for some commands. My recommendation is to check IBM’s official offering of VMware on IBM Cloud. A lot of… Continue reading
Update 1.4.2015 : added vSphere Data Protection, updated vSphere Replication, corrected host max VMs, added VVOL details vSphere 6.0 is out since 2nd of February 2015 lets see whats new: 1. Compute Features the new virtual hardware ‘version 11’ 128 vCPUs (64 vCPU with 5.5) 4TB of RAM (NUMA aware) (1TB… Continue reading
For small and remote branch offices I was looking for a Replacement of VMware VSA. Our architecture decision for small remote branch office was to use VMware VSA, but it was discontinued and it is not possible to order it anymore. End of Availability VMware is announcing the End of Availability… Continue reading
