VMware vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA) for Shared Storage End of Availability VMware is announcing the End of Availability of all vSphere Storage Appliance versions, effective April 1, 2014. After this date you will no longer be able to purchase this product. All support and maintenance for vSphere Storage Appliance 5.5 will be unaffected and will continue to follow the Enterprise Infrastructure Support Policy. The End of General Support life date for customers with vSphere Storage Appliance 5.5 remains September 19, 2018. Customers interested in moving to a new VMware software-defined storage solution may elect to upgrade to VMware Virtual SAN.
VMware vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA) for Shared Storage End of Availability VMware is announcing the End of Availability of all vSphere Storage Appliance versions, effective April 1, 2014. After this date you will no longer be able to purchase this product. All support and maintenance for vSphere Storage Appliance 5.5 will be unaffected and will continue to follow the Enterprise Infrastructure Support Policy. The End of General Support life date for customers with vSphere Storage Appliance 5.5 remains September 19, 2018. Customers interested in moving to a new VMware software-defined storage solution may elect to upgrade to VMware Virtual SAN.
How Server Virtualization Works Server computers -- machines that host files and applications on computer networks -- have to be powerful. Some have central processing units (CPUs) with multiple processors that give these servers the ability to run complex tasks with ease. Computer network administrators usually dedicate each server to a specific application or task. Many of these tasks don't play well with others -- each needs its own dedicated machine. There are a couple of problems with this approach, though. Server virtualization attempts to address both of these issues in one fell swoop. Virtualization isn't a new concept. Why are so many companies using server virtualization in their computer networks?
VMware Storage and Software-defined Storage (SDS) Solutions Blog Posts Oregon State University, a public institution with more than 26,000 students and growing VDI workloads wanted a high performance storage tier for their VDI environment. However, they wanted the solution to be up and running before the school summer session began, along with being easy to operate and scale on an on-going basis, without requiring large upfront investments. Continue reading Welcome to the next installment of our vSphere PowerCLI 5.8 walkthrough series of the new cmdlets for vSphere Storage Policy Based Management. So far we have seen: Introduction to vSphere Storage Policies Creating vSphere Storage PoliciesAssociating vSphere Storage Policies In this article we will take the next step and illustrate how to leverage vSphere Storage Policies to enhance the provisioning of New VMs. PowerCLI cmdlets referenced in this blog article: New-VM Get-SpbmCompatibleStorage Get-SpbmEntityConfigurationSet-SpbmEntityConfiguration Using the vSphere Web ClientUsing PowerCLI Continue reading
Best Practices for Running vSphere on NFS Storage Community Feedback 1 voteLog in to rate item Publisher: VMware Latest Revision: Feb 4, 2013 Download: Description Deployment of vSphere on IP based storage is becoming more common and this paper provides a technical overview of deployment considerations and best practices for running vSphere on Network File System shared storage.
Downloads Here you will find links to VirtualBox binaries and its source code. VirtualBox binaries ¶ By downloading, you agree to the terms and conditions of the respective license. VirtualBox 7.0.14 platform packages ¶ The binaries are released under the terms of the GPL version 3. See the changelog for what has changed. You might want to compare the checksums to verify the integrity of downloaded packages. SHA256 checksums, MD5 checksums Note: After upgrading VirtualBox it is recommended to upgrade the guest additions as well. VirtualBox 7.0.14 Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack ¶ All supported platforms Support VirtualBox RDP, disk encryption, NVMe and PXE boot for Intel cards. VirtualBox 7.0.14 Software Developer Kit (SDK) ¶ All platforms User Manual ¶ The VirtualBox User Manual is included in the VirtualBox packages above. User Manual (HTML version) You may also like to take a look at our frequently asked questions list. VirtualBox older builds ¶ VirtualBox older builds VirtualBox Sources ¶
VMware storage: SAN configuration basics VMware storage entails more than simply mapping a logical unit number (LUN) to a physical server. VMware’s vSphere enables system administrators to create multiple virtual servers on a single physical server chassis. The underlying hypervisor, vSphere ESXi, can use both internal and external storage devices for guest virtual machines. In this article we will discuss the basics of using storage area network (SAN) storage on vSphere and the factors administrators should consider when planning a shared SAN storage deployment. VMware storage: SAN basics vSphere supports internally-connected disks that include JBODs, hardware RAID arrays, solid-state disks and PCIe SSD cards. SAN storage, however, provides a shared, highly available and resilient storage platform that can scale to a multi-server deployment. It is possible to use NAS and SAN-based storage products with vSphere, but in this article we will consider only SAN, or block-based devices. VMware file system and datastores
Virtual Blocks For those of you have been following this thread for a while, you know we’re in the midst of head-to-head performance testing on two identical clusters: one running VSAN, the other running Nutanix. Recently, we’ve updated the Nutanix cluster to vSphere 6 and 4.1.3 — however, no differences have been observed performance since the change. Up to now, we’ve only been able to share our VSAN results. By comparison, VMware not only regularly publishes the results of our own tests, but also frequently approves such publication by others, once we’ve had a chance to review the methodology -- simply by submitting to benchmarks@vmware.com. Since the results are so interesting, we're continuing to test! As we start to move from synthetic workloads to specific application workloads, we recently finished a series of head-to-head Jetstress testing against our two identical clusters. If you’re not familiar, Jetstress is a popular Microsoft tool for testing the storage performance of Exchange clusters.
VMware vSphere Best Practices - VMwaremine - Mine of knowledge about virtualization VMware tools for nested ESXi If you have nested ESXi running on your homelab environment this is something which you should look at. VMware tools for nested ESXi – very cool flings by VMware labs it does work like on any other guest operating system (Linux, Windows). Heaving installed VMware tools on nested ESX server in your homelab environment gives you more info about nested ESXi hosts out of vSphere client or vSphere web client. You can check IP addresses, perform ESXi power cycle (Restart Guest, shut down guest – which are normally greyed out if vmware... read more OpenSSL heartbleed bug – VMware products Most probably you are aware about recent finding by The bug was independently discovered by security firm Codenomicon and a Google Security engineer. Sponsor News 04/2014 vCAC 6.0 most annoying installation error During my POC on vCAC I had to struggle with different type of issues but he most annoying one was during IaaS component installation. vCO workflow – change vCPU count
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