The following Blog post is about VMware VSAN or Virtual San. http://www.vmware.com/products/virtual-san The following post was made with pre GA , Beta content. All performance numbers are subject to final benchmarking results. Please refer to guidance published at GA All Content and media is from VMWare, as part of the blogger program. Please also read vSphere…
vExpert 2015 Announced
VMware has announced the first round of vExperts for 2015 and I am please to report that myself and Roger of vBrainstorm.com have made the list once again! This is my 3rd year in a row being selected so the picture above reflects that. Here is the announcement from VMware as well as a link…
vSphere 6.0 Fault Tolerance – New Features
Today Announces the next major release of VMware’s Fault Tolerance Product. Note. These facts are pre release, thus I will update any changes if necessary, All Facts are direct From VMware. New features Enhanced virtual disk format support Ability to hot configure FT Greatly increased FT host compatibility 4vCPU per VM. Up to 4 VM’s per Host. ( 10GB required.)…
vSphere 6.0 Platform New Features
Today Announces the release of VMware’s vSphere largest release in VMware History. Note. These facts are pre release, thus I will update any changes if necessary, All Facts are direct From VMware. Increased vSphere Maximums 64 Hosts per Cluster 8000 Virtual Machines per Cluster 480 CPUs 12 TB RAM 1000 Virtual Machines Per Host Virtual…
vCenter Server 6.0 New Features
Today Announces the release of VMware’s vCenter largest release in VMware History. Note. These facts are pre release, thus I will update any changes if necessary, All Facts are direct From VMware. vCenter Server Features – Enhanced Capabilities Metric Windows Appliance Hosts per VC 1,000 1,000 Powered-On VMs per VC 10,000 10,000 Hosts per Cluster 64 64 VMs per Cluster…
vSphere 6 Configuration of Fault Tolerance
Make sure to follow the Requirements Here We will be showing off 4 vCPU Fault Tolerance. Login to vSphere vCenter 6 Web Server. Click on Hosts and Clusters. Select your first host. Click on Manage Click on Networking Click on Add Host Networking This pop’s up. Select Physical Network Adapter, and Click Next. Select new…
VMware products and “Ghost” (CVE-2015-0235)
I wanted to share this information from the VMware Security and Compliance Blog. The bottom line is that no VMware products at this time have been found that are vulnerable to the glibc gethostbyname* buffer overflow (CVE-2015-0235). The quoted blog post is below as well as a link to the post itself. This Tuesday a buffer…
VMware Security Advisory VMSA-2015-0001
VMware released security advisory VMSA-2015-0001 on January 27 2015. A link to the advisory can be found here. An overview of the items that this advisory addresses is shown below. VMware ESXi, Workstation, Player, and Fusion host privilege escalation vulnerability VMware ESXi, Workstation, Player and Fusion contain an arbitrary file write issue. Exploitation this issue may…
vCenter Server 5.5 Update 2d recently released
On January 27 2015 VMware released an update for vCenter Server 5.5. The release notes are located here. A brief summary of the resolved issues from the release notes are below. vCenter Single Sign-On VMware Directory Service consumes excessive memory Backup and restore of vCenter Single Sign-On database might not replicate the data between primary…
Initial Configuration of SolarWinds Virtualization Manager v6.1.1
So now that the Virtualization Manager appliance is installed and powered on we need to configure it. The vBrainstorm lab has DHCP enabled but we are using static IP addresses so we need to change the appliance to use a static IP. To do this, just right-click on the appliance in vCenter and choose to…