Durability Components for RAID-5/6 using the ESA in vSAN 8 U1 Durability Components for RAID-5/6 using the… Availability of data is one of the primary responsibilities of an enterprise class storage system, and a focal point for VMware’s efforts toward continual improvement. Therefore, with VMware vSAN™ 8 Update 1, we introduce the Enhanced data durability feature for planed maintenance when using […] VMware Social Media […]

VMware Skyline Health Diagnostics 3.5.2 VMware Skyline Health Diagnostics 3.5.2 VMware Skyline Health Diagnostics is a self-service diagnostics platform. It helps to detect and provide remediation to issues in the vSphere and vSAN product line. It provides recommendations in the form of a Knowledge Base article or procedure to remediate issues. It uses the log files of […] VMware Social Media Advocacy

VCF 4.5 vCenter Password Showing Disconnected In SDDC GUI VCF 4.5 vCenter Password Showing Disconnected… Today’s post we will talk about password rotation failure and disconnected status showing on the sddc gui while trying to rotate the password. To give overview this is greenfield deployment and after the deployment the customer wanted to change the vCenter password but it was unable to change […] VMware […]

VMware Disaster Recovery with Site Recovery Manager is now available as a Tech P… VMware Disaster Recovery with Site Recovery… VMware Site Recovery Manager, the premier Disaster Recovery solution for VMware workloads, is now available with Alibaba Cloud VMware Service as part of the new “Site Recovery Manager for VMware Cloud” licensing option. With this new addition, VMware disaster recovery is now possible for even […]

vSAN 8.0 U1 – Introducing Cross vCenter Server Disaggregated vSAN vSAN 8.0 U1 – Introducing Cross vCenter Server… In this demo, Duncan Epping gives a brief overview of how cross vCenter Server disaggregated vSAN works. In other words, how can we mount a remote datastore which belongs to a cluster managed by a different vCenter Server instance?! VMware Social Media Advocacy

vSAN 8.0 U1 – Disaggregated Storage Enhancements! vSAN 8.0 U1 – Disaggregated Storage Enhancements! With vSAN 8.0 U1 a lot of new features and enhancements are introduced. There are many blog posts out there describing the long list of enhancements, but in this post, I want to focus on HCI Mesh or Disaggregated vSAN specifically. (Also read this post by Cato!) For this feature, which […]

vSAN 8.0 U1 – Introducing Datastore Sharing support for Stretched Clusters vSAN 8.0 U1 – Introducing Datastore Sharing… In this demo, Duncan Epping gives a brief overview of how Datastore Sharing works in combination with vSAN stretched clusters. In other words, how can we mount a remote datastore which belongs to a stretched, and what do we need to consider from a latency/location point of […]

VMware Baseline Updates & HCL Check – Missing dependencies VIBs Error Part 2 VMware Baseline Updates & HCL Check – Missing… Another way to apply ESXi updates/upgrades. “This time, however, I want to show you the update/upgrade way via Baseline updates, i.e. you update your ESXi servers with Baselines over your vCenter.” VMware Social Media Advocacy

by Duncan Epping vSphere 8.0 U1 and vSAN 8.0 U1 what’s new… We (the Unexplored Territory team) have just published two brand-new episodes which discuss What’s New with vSphere 8.0 U1 and vSAN 8.0 U1. You can of course listen to them using your favorite podcast app, or you simply use the embedded players below to enjoy the content. VMware Social Media Advocacy