Converting VHDX to VMDK – Troubleshoot with…

Converting VHDX to VMDK – Troubleshoot with others on the best way to go about converting on #VMTN

Converting VHDX to VMDK – Troubleshoot with…

We are currently backing up our exchange server with the bog standard backup which comes with windows (windows backup), which is saving to the hyper-v vhdx file type, what is the best way to go about converting the file from vhdx to vmdk?


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Getting started with VMware Pivotal Container Service (PKS) Part 4: Ops Manager & BOSH

Getting started with VMware Pivotal Container…

In this article, we will begin our PKS installation by deploying Pivotal Ops Manager which provides a management interface (UI/API) for Cloud/Platform Operators to manage the complete lifecycle of both BOSH and PKS from install, patch and upgrade. In addition, you can also deploy new application services using Ops Manager Tiles like adding an Enterprise-class Container […]


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Self-driving Operations: See What’s New in vRealize Operations 6.7

Self-driving Operations: See What’s New in…

VMware vRealize Operation 6.7: Self Driving Operations for the Data Center Today, VMware announced the upcoming release of vRealize Operations 6.7, introducing several new and enhanced performance and capacity optimization capabilities to help customers adopt a ‘self-driving’ approach to operations management. This upcoming release of vRealize Operations will deliver continuous performance optimization based on operational The post Self-driving Operations: See What’s New in vRealize…Read More


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vRealize Log Insight 4.6 – April 2018 New Release

vRealize Log Insight 4.6 – April 2018 New Release

vRealize Log Insight 4.6 – April 2018 New Release

Check out the newest release of vRealize Log Insight 4.6! This release includes new features for the Log Insight server and agent, resulting in improvements in scalability, usability, and user access management. Improved Scalability Log Insight is now more scalable and supports up to 15 vCenters per node. It also supports sending SYSLOG over UPD. The post vRealize Log Insight 4.6 – April 2018 New Release appeared first on VMware Cloud Management .


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New KB articles published for week ending 25th…

New KB articles published for week ending 25th March 2018

New KB articles published for week ending 25th…

VMware vSphere Integrated Containers VCH creation wizard does not list any vSphere distributed switches in the dropdown list Date Published: 2018/03/19 VMware NSX for vSphere eBGP between DLR and Edge may experience a routing loop after upgrading to NSX-v 6.3.5 Date Published: 2018/03/20 VMware vCloud Availability for vCloud Director RabbitMQ login is refused when configuring […] The post New KB articles published for week ending 25th March 2018 appeared first on Support Insider .


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What’s New in vRealize Automation 7.4

What’s New in vRealize Automation 7.4

What’s New in vRealize Automation 7.4

Making Clouds Invisible – Usability and Time to Value (TTV) Take a Front seat Fasten your seatbelt – What’s New in vRealize Automation 7.4 Hybrid cloud is a reality that imposes the need to be app-aware, self-driving and fully automated. The advent of containers, PaaS, and FaaS frameworks are driving faster, scalable and portable application development. Infrastructure and The post What’s New in vRealize Automation 7.4 appeared first on VMware Cloud Management .


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Becoming a vSAN Specialist: Section 3 – vSAN…

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In this section, I will go over the following objectives found within the VMware vSAN Specialist Blueprint: Objective 3.1 – Identify physical network requirements Objective 3.1 – Identify physical network requirements Let’s start with the network basics. Dedicated network port for vSAN traffic 10GB (dedicated or shared) highly recommended, required for all flash deployments)


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Announcing the vSphere 6.5 Update 1 Security Configuration Guide

Announcing the vSphere 6.5 Update 1 Security…

I am really pleased to announce the availability of the 6.5 Update 1 Security Configuration Guide (SCG). Normally a new guide is done only for numbered releases and not updates but the number of security updates that have made it into 6.5 Update 1 has warranted this SCG release. Also, we want to show how The post Announcing the vSphere 6.5 Update 1 Security Configuration Guide appeared first on VMware vSphere Blog .


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HCI Bench – vSAN performance tool – Part 3: Tests and Results

Tests

Once you hit the “Test” button you can go watch some movies. It’s take a time depend on your HW. For me it was couple of hours.

  • It starts with VM deployment

  • It will create bunch of VM’s (each 4vCPU, 4GB of RAM, 9xHDD (total 250GB))

Testing was done by using Vdbench VM with input argument “-fvdb-8vmdk-100ws-4k-70rdpct-100randompct-8threads

Results

Tested VSAN configuration:

  • 4x Node configuration with 10gigabit connection
  • VC build: VMware vCenter Server 6.5.0 build-7515524

Each ESXi host:

  • Build: VMware ESXi 6.5.0 build-7388607
  • CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) Silver 4114 CPU @ 2.20GHz ( Packages: 2, Cores: 20 )
  • Memory: 256 GB
  • Server vendor/model: Dell Inc. PowerEdge FC640
  • VSAN Disks:
    • SSD: Local TOSHIBA Disk (naa.58ce38ee2000c0ad)
      • TOSHIBA PX05SMB080Y
      • 800 GB
    • SSD: Local TOSHIBA Disk (naa.58ce38e06c8a274d)
      • TOSHIBA PX05SRB192Y
      • 1920 GB
    • SSD: Local TOSHIBA Disk (naa.58ce38e06c8a26fd)
      • TOSHIBA PX05SRB192Y
      • 1920 GB
    • SSD: Local TOSHIBA Disk (naa.50000397cc89cd79)
      • TOSHIBA PX05SMB080Y
      • 800 GB