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ESXi on the new 2019 Apple Mac Pro
Inquiries from customers on the support for ESXi on the latest 2019 Apple Mac Pro 7,1 has slowly been trickling in since the release of the system in late December. Officially, VMware currently does not support this platform and until we have a unit in-house to investigate further, this is the official stance. With that […]
Introduction The idea behind tag based placement is quite simple. It assists administrators to keep VMs respectively VMDKs on desired datastores, based on tags. For example, a VM is defined to be located in datacenter 1 (DC1). With tag based placement you assign tag “Storage DC1” to all datastores i
Rightsizing VMs with vRealize Operations
Rightsizing VMs is critical to get the best performance of your vSphere infrastructure and your VMs. Rampant oversizing of VMs can cause contention at the host or cluster level, which manifest as CPU ready, CPU co-stop, VM swap, etc. Undersized VMs can cause contention inside the guest OS, which manifest as CPU queuing, memory paging, The post Rightsizing VMs with vRealize Operations appeared first on VMware Cloud Management.
5 Networking Trends for 2020
Networking got some serious attention in 2019 with the wide adoption of these capabilities: Automation. Mission-critical cloud connectivity. Artificial intelligence and machine learning. 802.11ax for wireless networks. As these seemingly disparate technologies mature and coalesce into integrated systems, I think we’ll see digital transformation become more than a buzzword in the next decade. In fact, […] The post 5 Networking Trends for 2020 appeared first on VMware Radius.
First Class Disks/Enhanced Virtual Disks revisited
I have been receiving a number of queries lately with regards to First Class Disks (FCD) on vSphere, also referred to as Improved Virtual Disks (IVD). Some time back, I wrote a primer on FCDs and more recently I wrote about Safekeeper, a tool for interacting with FCDs which is available on GitHub as OpenSource. This may be why there has been an increase in awareness and I am seeing more questions about FCDs. In this post, I want to address some of the most common FCD/IVD questions that I have…Read More
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