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PowerCLI で vSAN セットアップをためしてみる。
vSAN のセットアップには一般的 vSphere Web Client を使用しますが、PowerCLI でも同様の操作ができます。
PowerCLI での vSAN 設定を、 VMware Hands-on Labs（HoL）でためす方法を紹介します。
HoL には、vSAN 入門者むけの下記のラボがあります。
HOL-1808-01-HCI - vSAN v6.6 - Getting Started
http://labs.hol.vmware.com/HOL/catalogs/lab/3651
このラボには PowerCLI を使用するシナリオがあるのですが、
モジュール 1 での vSAN クラスタのセットアップは vSphere Web Client で実施しています。
今回は、その部分を操作を PowerCLI に置き換えてみます。
ちなみにラボのシナリオ（マニュアル）は公開されており、下記で確認できます。
コマンドラインの実行方法について。
コマンドラインは「テキストの送信」を利用すると、HoL に対してコピー＆ペーストができるようになります。
（ただし、逆の HoL からのコピーはできません。）
デスクトップにある「VMware PowerCLI」のアイコンから PowerCLI のウインドウを起動しておき、
「送信」をクリックする前に、フォーカスをあてておきます。
ちなみに HoL の PowerCLI で実施できる vSAN 関連の操作は、
下記のようなコマンドラインで俯瞰することができます。
PowerCLI> gcm -Module VMware.VimAutomation.Storage | group Noun | select Count,Name,@{N="Verb";E={$_.Group.Verb -join ","}} | sort Name
PowerCLI での vSAN クラスタのセットアップをためす。
それでは、vSAN のセットアップをしていきます。
まず、vCenter に接続します。
HoL では、パスワードなしでログインできるように構成されています。
PowerCLI> Connect-VIServer vcsa-01a.corp.local
今回は、クラスタのオブジェクトを取得して変数「$c」に格納おきます。
HoL へのコピー＆ペーストの都合上、短い変数名にしました。
PowerCLI> $c = Get-Cluster RegionA01-COMP01
下記のようなコマンドラインで、クラスタの情報を確認できます。
PowerCLI> $c
PowerCLI> $c | select *
PowerCLI> $c | select Name,VsanEnabled
クラスタに含まれる ESXi ホストを確認しておきます。
PowerCLI> $c | Get-VMHost | sort Name
それでは、vSAN を有効化します。
「-Confirm:$false」でコマンド実行の確認メッセージを抑止しています。
どうしても確認しつつコマンドラインを実行したい場合は、はこのオプションは不要です。
PowerCLI> $c | Set-Cluster -VsanEnabled:$true -Confirm:$false
PowerCLI> $c | Get-VsanClusterConfiguration | Set-VsanClusterConfiguration -SpaceEfficiencyEnabled:$true -AllowReducedRedundancy:$true -Confirm:$false
クラスタの vSAN 設定を確認します。
SpaceEfficiencyEnabled では、重複排除と圧縮が有効になっているか確認できます。
設定時の AllowReducedRedundancy は、設定反映時に一時的な冗長性の低下を許容するというオプションなので
ここでのクラスタの設定確認には含めません。
PowerCLI> $c | Get-VsanClusterConfiguration | select Cluster,VsanEnabled,SpaceEfficiencyEnabled
VMkernel ポートで vSAN トラフィックが有効化されているか確認しておきます。
PowerCLI> $c | Get-VMHost | Get-VMHostNetworkAdapter -VMKernel -Name vmk3 | select VMHost,Name,IP,VsanTrafficEnabled,PortGroupName | sort VMHost,Name | ft -AutoSize
クラスタに含まれるすべてのホストに対して、vSAN のディスク グループを作成します。
ホストに搭載されたディスクは、下記のようなコマンドラインで確認できます。
PowerCLI> $c | Get-VMHost | Get-VMHostDisk | select VMHost,ScsiLun,TotalSectors | sort VMHost,ScsiLun
すべてのホストでハードウェア構成が揃っているので、
SsdCanonicalName と DataDiskCanonicalName のデバイス名もすべてのホストで揃えられます。
今回はシナリオにあわせて、キャッシュ層として mpx.vmhba1:C0:T1:L0、
キャパシティ層として mpx.vmhba3:C0:T1:L0 と mpx.vmhba4:C0:T1:L0 を追加します。
PowerCLI> $c | Get-VMHost | New-VsanDiskGroup -SsdCanonicalName mpx.vmhba1:C0:T1:L0 -DataDiskCanonicalName mpx.vmhba3:C0:T1:L0,mpx.vmhba4:C0:T1:L0
vSAN のディスク グループにディスクが追加されたことを確認します。
PowerCLI> $c | Get-VMHost | %{$hv_name =$_.Name; $_ | Get-VsanDisk | select @{N="VMHost";E={$hv_name}},CanonicalName,IsCacheDisk,VsanDiskGroup} | sort VMHost
vSAN データストアの容量は、下記で確認できます。
クラスタの vSAN 設定が更新されているため、以前に取得した $c ではなく
Get-Cluster でクラスタのオブジェクトを取得しなおす必要があります。
PowerCLI> Get-Cluster RegionA01-COMP01 | Get-VsanSpaceUsage | select *
これで、モジュール 1 の完了時点と同様の vSAN 環境ができました。
このモジュールのシナリオにはありませんが、のこりのディスクで
追加のディスクグループを作成することもできます。
ディスクグループでコントローラを分割したほうがよいとは思いますが、
今回は HoL シナリオの都合上、下記のようにディスクを選択しています。
PowerCLI> $c | Get-VMHost | New-VsanDiskGroup -SsdCanonicalName mpx.vmhba1:C0:T0:L0 -DataDiskCanonicalName mpx.vmhba3:C0:T0:L0,mpx.vmhba4:C0:T0:L0
このように、vSphere Web Client での vSAN 操作のほとんどは PowerCLI でも実施できます。
作業を PowerCLI に置き換えることで、設定の効率化やミスの防止などをはかれるかもしれません。
また、PowerCLI で vSAN 環境を確認する方法については下記の投稿もどうぞ。
vSAN の情報を PowerCLI 6.5 R1 で見てみる。
以上、HoL を利用して PowerCLI による vSAN セットアップをためしてみる話でした。
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PowerCLI で vSAN セットアップをためしてみる。（2 Node 版）
今回は、PowerCLI で 2 Node vSAN を構成してみます。
2 Node vSAN のセットアップも、通常の vSAN と同様に vSphere Web Client を使用できますが
PowerCLI でもセットアップすることができます。
以前に PowerCLI での vSAN セットアップを
VMware Hands-on Labs（HoL）でためす方法を投稿しましたが・・・
PowerCLI で vSAN セットアップをためしてみる。
今回も同様に、下記の HoL のモジュール 7 にあるシナリオを PowerCLI で実施してみます。
HOL-1808-01-HCI - vSAN v6.6 - Getting Started
http://labs.hol.vmware.com/HOL/catalogs/lab/3651
ESXi ホストの準備。
最初に、vCenter へ接続してクラスタを作成しておきます。
PowerCLI> Connect-VIServer vcsa-01a.corp.local
PowerCLI> Get-Datacenter RegionA01 | New-Cluster -Name 2-Node-Stretched-Cluster
esx-05a.corp.local と esx-06a.corp.local をクラスタに移動します。
PowerCLI> Get-VMHost esx-05a.corp.local,esx-06a.corp.local | Move-VMHost -Location 2-Node-Stretched-Cluster
クラスタに移動されたすべてのホストのメンテナンスモードを解除します。
PowerCLI> Get-Cluster 2-Node-Stretched-Cluster | Get-VMHost | Set-VMHost -State Connected
VMkernel ポートで、vSAN の準備ができていることを確認します。
VMkernel ポート「vmk3」ではすでに vSAN のトラフィックが有効化されています。
（vSAN Witness ホストの VMkernel ポートの設定は、後であらためて確認します。）
PowerCLI> Get-Cluster 2-Node-Stretched-Cluster | Get-VMHost | Get-VMHostNetworkAdapter -VMKernel | select VMHost,Name,IP,VsanTrafficEnabled | sort VMHost,Name
このラボではすでに vSAN トラフィックが有効化されていますが、
有効化する場合は下記のようなコマンドラインになります。
PowerCLI>
ESXi ホストのディスク構成を確認しておきます。
ここで、このラボでは各ホストで構成が若干違う（vmhba1:～ と vmhba2:～）ことがわかります。
PowerCLI> Get-Cluster 2-Node-Stretched-Cluster | Get-VMHost | Get-VMHostDisk | select VMHost,ScsiLun,TotalSectors | sort VMHost,ScsiLun
先程とは別の方法で、VMkernel ポートの設定を確認しておきます。
まだ vSAN Witness が有効化されていないことがわかります。
ここでは、Get-EsxCli により、PowerCLI から esxcli を実行しています。
esxcli で実行可能な作業であれば、このように PowerCLI を介して実行することも可能です。
ここでは、コマンドラインが簡潔な Get-EsxCli -V1 を利用しています。
PowerCLI> Get-VMHost esx-0[568]a.* | Get-VMHostNetworkAdapter -VMKernel | % {$vmk = $_.Name; $_ | select VMHost,Name,@{N="Tags";E={((($_.VMHost | Get-EsxCli).network.ip.interface.tag.get($vmk)).Tags | sort) -join ","}}} | sort VMHost,Name
ESXi ホスト「esx-05a.corp.local」の vmk0 に、未設定だった witness タグを付与してみます。
まだ vSAN Witness が有効化されていないことがわかります。
今度は先ほどとはことなり、Get-EsxCli -V2 で esxcli を実行しています。
Get-EsxCli -V2 ではオプション指定の方法が少し複雑になりますが、
かわりにオプションを指定しやすく（必須ではないオプションを省略しやすく）なっています。
PowerCLI> $esxcli = Get-VMHost esx-05a.corp.local | Get-EsxCli -V2
PowerCLI> $a = $esxcli.vsan.network.ipv4.add.CreateArgs()
PowerCLI> $a.interfacename = "vmk0"
PowerCLI> $a.traffictype = "witness"
PowerCLI> $esxcli.vsan.network.ipv4.add.Invoke($a)
そのまま下記のコマンド実行すると、設定されたことが確認できます。
PowerCLI> $esxcli.vsan.network.list.Invoke() | select VmkNicName,TrafficType
同様に ESXi ホスト「esx-06a.corp.local」の vmk0 に、witness タグを付与します。
（PowerCLI のプロンプトは省略しています。）
$esxcli = Get-VMHost esx-06a.corp.local | Get-EsxCli -V2
$a = $esxcli.vsan.network.ipv4.add.CreateArgs()
$a.interfacename = "vmk0"
$a.traffictype = "witness"
$esxcli.vsan.network.ipv4.add.Invoke($a)
$esxcli.vsan.network.list.Invoke() | select VmkNicName,TrafficType
VMkernel ポートの Tag 設定は下記のようになりました。
こちらでは witness は「VSANWitness」と表示されています。
vSAN クラスタのセットアップ。
それでは、2 Node vSAN のセットアップをしていきます。
vSAN Witness 仮想アプライアンス「esx-08a.corp.local」は、
このラボではすでにデプロイとネットワーク設定が実施されています。
クラスタで vSAN を有効化します。
PowerCLI> Get-Cluster 2-Node-Stretched-Cluster | Set-Cluster -VsanEnabled:$true -Confirm:$false
Fault Domain を 2 ノードそれぞれに作成します。
優先 Fault Domain は Preferred でセカンダリは Secondary としますが、
ここではまだその区別はありません。
PowerCLI> New-VsanFaultDomain -Name Preferred -VMHost esx-05a.corp.local
PowerCLI> New-VsanFaultDomain -Name Secondary -VMHost esx-06a.corp.local
ストレッチ クラスタを有効化します。
ここで Witness ホストと、優先 Fault Domain を指定します。
PowerCLI> Get-Cluster 2-Node-Stretched-Cluster | Set-VsanClusterConfiguration -StretchedClusterEnabled:$true -WitnessHost esx-08a.corp.local -WitnessHostCacheDisk mpx.vmhba1:C0:T2:L0 -WitnessHostCapacityDisk mpx.vmhba1:C0:T1:L0 -PreferredFaultDomain Preferred
つづけて、vSAN ディスク グループを作成します。
それぞれにホストに、２つずつ ディスクグループを作成します。
今回は各ホストでキャッシュ用 SSD のデバイス名が異なるので、ディスクグループごとにコマンドラインを実行します。
esx-05a.corp.local の ディスクグループ#1
PowerCLI> Get-VMHost esx-05a.corp.local | New-VsanDiskGroup -SsdCanonicalName mpx.vmhba1:C0:T0:L0 -DataDiskCanonicalName mpx.vmhba3:C0:T0:L0,mpx.vmhba3:C0:T1:L0
esx-06a.corp.local の ディスクグループ#1
PowerCLI> Get-VMHost esx-06a.corp.local | New-VsanDiskGroup -SsdCanonicalName mpx.vmhba2:C0:T0:L0 -DataDiskCanonicalName mpx.vmhba3:C0:T0:L0,mpx.vmhba3:C0:T1:L0
esx-05a.corp.local の ディスクグループ#2
PowerCLI> Get-VMHost esx-05a.corp.local | New-VsanDiskGroup -SsdCanonicalName mpx.vmhba1:C0:T1:L0 -DataDiskCanonicalName mpx.vmhba4:C0:T0:L0,mpx.vmhba4:C0:T1:L0
esx-06a.corp.local の ディスクグループ#2
PowerCLI> Get-VMHost esx-06a.corp.local | New-VsanDiskGroup -SsdCanonicalName mpx.vmhba2:C0:T1:L0 -DataDiskCanonicalName mpx.vmhba4:C0:T0:L0,mpx.vmhba4:C0:T1:L0
vSAN データストアの名前を確認します。デフォルトで「vsanDatastore」になります。
PowerCLI> Get-Cluster 2-Node-Stretched-Cluster | Get-Datastore | where {$_.Type -eq "vsan"}
vSAN データストアに VM を作成しておきます。
PowerCLI> New-VM -Name vm01 -Datastore vsanDatastore -StorageFormat Thin -ResourcePool esx-05a.corp.local
今回は省略しますが、あわせて必要に応じて「仮想マシン ストレージ ポリシー」によるローカルアフィニティや、
DRS ルールでのアフィニティ ルールを設定したりします。
セットアップした 2 Node vSAN の様子。
PowerCLI で構成したとおり、2 Node vSAN はストレッチ クラスタとなり、
Preferred と Secondary のうち、Preferred が優先 Fault Domain になっています。
vSAN Health でも「Storeched cluster」が緑になっています。
ハードウェア互換性に関連するエラーなどがありますが、HoL の仕様上ここでは無視します。
vSAN データストアに作成した VM「vm01」は、
データが格納される Component がそれぞれの Fault Domain（Preferred と Secondary）、
Witness が Witness ホストに配置されています。
（今回はデフォルトの仮想マシン ストレージ ポリシーのままです。）
vSphere Web Client で簡単に 2 Node vSAN を構成できますが、
PowerCLI を利用すると Fault Domain を手動作成したりするので
より理解を深められるのではないかと思います。
2 Node vSAN はリモートオフィス / ブランチオフィスへの配置をユースケースとしているようで
大量展開や省力化のためか自動化のサンプルが多くあります。
VMware Sample Exchange などにもサンプルが多いので、いろいろと挑戦してみたいところです。
vSAN Samples - Samples - VMware {code}
以上、PowerCLI で 2 Node vSAN を構成してみる話でした。
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MCA error detected via CMCI
Condition:- Cisco UCS B200 M3
cpu13:5344825)MCE: 1020: cpu13: MCA error detected via CMCI (Gbl status=0x0): Restart IP: invalid, Error IP: invalid, MCE in progress: no.
cpu13:5344825)MCE: 190: cpu13: bank7: status=0x8c00004000010091: (VAL=1, OVFLW=0, UC=0, EN=0, PCC=0, S=0, AR=0), Addr:0x1421652080 (valid), Misc:0x42389a00 (valid)
2018-03-16T12:36:38.906Z cpu13:5344825)MCE: 199: cpu13: bank7: MCA recoverable error (CE): "Memory Controller Read Error on Channel 1."
CIMC | Processor IERR #0x99 | Predictive Failure asserted | Asserted
5:2018 Mar 16 23:13:53 GMT:3.1(21d):selparser:1724: selparser.c:706: # DA 01 00 00 01 02 00 00 B1 4F AC 5A 20 00 04 24 95 00 00 00 7F 05 FF FF # 1da | 03/16/2018 23:13:53 | CIMC | Platform alert LED_BLADE_STATUS #0x95 | LED color is amber | Asserted
CPU 1 : MCA_ERR_SRC_LOG : 0xc0000000
CPU 2 : READ MCA_ERR_SRC_LOG Register : FAILED : RetVal = 0 : CC = 0x81
Solution:- replace faulty system board along with TPM.
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BIOS | Processor #0x00 | Configuration Error | | Asserted
From obfl logs
5:2018 Mar 17 13:13:12 MST:3.1(21d):selparser:1688: selparser.c:706: # 2D 02 00 00 01 02 00 00 D7 76 AD 5A 33 00 04 07 00 00 00 00 6F A5 92 11 # 22d | 03/17/2018 13:13:11 | BIOS | Processor #0x00 | Configuration Error | | Asserted
5:2018 Mar 17 22:25:39 MST:3.1(21d):avct_server:1589: callback_http: new client connected, wsi 0x40e03778
5:2018 Mar 17 22:25:39 MST:3.1(21d):avct_server:13538: Client supports encrypted/unencrypted kbd/mouse.
From SEL
22d | 03/17/2018 13:13:11 | BIOS | Processor #0x00 | Configuration Error | | Asserted
This is cisco bug (CSCuz55148). Vce kb (000004971)
Solution:- Proactive plan replace both CPUs.
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PowerCLI で ゲスト OS の vNIC と IP アドレスの対応を確認してみる。
vSphere 環境では、ゲスト OS に VMware Tools をインストールすると
VM のレイヤから、ゲスト OS に付与されている IP アドレスを確認することができます。
PowerCLI> Get-VM db01 | Get-VMGuest | select VM,ToolsVersion,IPAddress | fl
VM : db01
ToolsVersion : 10.1.5
IPAddress : {192.168.11.171, 192.168.11.170, 192.168.11.173, 192.168.41.171...}
実は現在の vSphere の機能では、vNIC と IP アドレスの対応も確認できるようになっています。
この VM には vNIC が 2つあり、それぞれ vNIC に複数の IP アドレスが付与されている様子がわかります。
（ちなみにこの VM は Oracle RAC を構成している Linux ゲストで VIP を複数もっています。）
PowerCLI> Get-VM db01 | Get-VMGuest | select -ExpandProperty ExtensionData | select -ExpandProperty Net
Network : dvpg-vds01-vlan-1011
IpAddress : {192.168.11.171, 192.168.11.170, 192.168.11.173}
MacAddress : 00:50:56:8a:fc:d4
Connected : True
DeviceConfigId : 4000
DnsConfig :
IpConfig : VMware.Vim.NetIpConfigInfo
NetBIOSConfig :
Network : dvpg-vds01-vlan-4001
IpAddress : {192.168.41.171, 169.254.131.137}
MacAddress : 00:50:56:8a:89:e3
Connected : True
DeviceConfigId : 4001
DnsConfig :
IpConfig : VMware.Vim.NetIpConfigInfo
NetBIOSConfig :
IPv6 のアドレスを付与されている場合も、下記のようにアドレスが認識されています。
（ちなみにこの VM は vSAN Witness Appliance で、本来は vNIC1 / vNIC2 は別セグメントの IP を付与します。）
PowerCLI> Get-VM hv-n43w | Get-VMGuest | select -ExpandProperty ExtensionData | select -ExpandProperty Net
Network : dvpg-vds01-vlan-0000
IpAddress : {192.168.1.13, fe80::250:56ff:fe8a:180a, 2400:4030:8c62:5400:250:56ff:fe8a:180a}
MacAddress : 00:50:56:8a:18:0a
Connected : True
DeviceConfigId : 4000
DnsConfig :
IpConfig : VMware.Vim.NetIpConfigInfo
NetBIOSConfig :
Network : dvpg-vds01-nested
IpAddress : {192.168.1.14, fe80::250:56ff:fe8a:79a0, 2400:4030:8c62:5400:250:56ff:fe8a:79a0}
MacAddress : 00:50:56:8a:79:a0
Connected : True
DeviceConfigId : 4001
DnsConfig :
IpConfig : VMware.Vim.NetIpConfigInfo
NetBIOSConfig :
ためしに、下記のようなスクリプトを作成してみました。
実行すると、下記のように IP アドレスごとに情報を取得できます。
PowerCLI スクリプトなどで工夫することで、
取得する情報を vNIC ごとから IP アドレスごとにしたり・・・・
PowerCLI> .\get_guest_ip.ps1 -VMs hv-n43w
VM : hv-n43w
PowerState : PoweredOn
ToolsState : toolsOk
key : 4000
Mac : 00:50:56:8a:18:0a
Portgroup : dvpg-vds01-vlan-0000
Connected : True
IpAddress : 192.168.1.13
PrefixLength : 24
VM : hv-n43w
PowerState : PoweredOn
ToolsState : toolsOk
key : 4000
Mac : 00:50:56:8a:18:0a
Portgroup : dvpg-vds01-vlan-0000
Connected : True
IpAddress : fe80::250:56ff:fe8a:180a
PrefixLength : 64
VM : hv-n43w
PowerState : PoweredOn
ToolsState : toolsOk
key : 4000
Mac : 00:50:56:8a:18:0a
Portgroup : dvpg-vds01-vlan-0000
Connected : True
IpAddress : 2400:4030:8c62:5400:250:56ff:fe8a:180a
PrefixLength : 64
VM : hv-n43w
PowerState : PoweredOn
ToolsState : toolsOk
key : 4001
Mac : 00:50:56:8a:79:a0
Portgroup : dvpg-vds01-nested
Connected : True
IpAddress : 192.168.1.14
PrefixLength : 24
VM : hv-n43w
PowerState : PoweredOn
ToolsState : toolsOk
key : 4001
Mac : 00:50:56:8a:79:a0
Portgroup : dvpg-vds01-nested
Connected : True
IpAddress : fe80::250:56ff:fe8a:79a0
PrefixLength : 64
VM : hv-n43w
PowerState : PoweredOn
ToolsState : toolsOk
key : 4001
Mac : 00:50:56:8a:79:a0
Portgroup : dvpg-vds01-nested
Connected : True
IpAddress : 2400:4030:8c62:5400:250:56ff:fe8a:79a0
PrefixLength : 64
IPv4 のアドレスだけを取得したりできるようになります。
PowerCLI> .\get_guest_ip.ps1 -VMs hv-n43w -IPv4Only
VM : hv-n43w
PowerState : PoweredOn
ToolsState : toolsOk
key : 4000
Mac : 00:50:56:8a:18:0a
Portgroup : dvpg-vds01-vlan-0000
Connected : True
IpAddress : 192.168.1.13
PrefixLength : 24
VM : hv-n43w
PowerState : PoweredOn
ToolsState : toolsOk
key : 4001
Mac : 00:50:56:8a:79:a0
Portgroup : dvpg-vds01-nested
Connected : True
IpAddress : 192.168.1.14
PrefixLength : 24
IP アドレスごとにすることで、
下記のように IP アドレス特定を工夫しやすくなるのではないかと思います。
PowerCLI> .\get_guest_ip.ps1 -VMs db01 -IPv4Only | where {$_.key -eq 4001} | where {$_.IpAddress -like "192.168.*"} | select IpAddress
IpAddress
---------
192.168.41.171
たとえば、VM のテンプレート展開で DHCP を使用している場合に
vNICの番号（4000～）や ポートグループ名（Network）をもとに IP アドレスを特定して、
後続処理の自動化で利用したりすることができると思います。
ちなみに今回は vSphere 6.5 U1 + PowerCLI 10.0 環境でためしています。
以上、PowerCLI で vNIC と IP アドレスの対応を確認してみる話でした。
↧
複数の Linux OS から vSAN の iSCSI Target にマルチパス接続してみる。（Oracle RAC などむけ）
vSAN には、iSCSI Target を提供する機能があります。
これは物理マシンにブロック デバイスを提供する目的の機能のようで、
下記の KB によると、物理マシンの Oracle RAC でも利用してよいようです。
vSAN 6.5 iSCSI デバイスを使用するためのベスト プラクティス (2151966)
https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2151966
そこで、ためしに Oracle Linux 7 から vSAN の iSCSI Target に接続してみました。
今回は機能確認のために仮想マシンの Linux から接続していますが、
現状では、仮想マシンの Oracle RAC は vSAN iSCSI Target のサポート対象外です。
vSAN で仮想マシンで RAC を構築する場合は、以前に投稿した（下記）ように、
共有ディスクは VMDK ファイルを共有する方式になります。（厳密な手順ではありませんので、参考まで）
PowerCLI で vSphere / vSAN 環境での Oracle RAC むけ VM を設定してみる。（2 Node 構成）
それでは iSCSI Target を構成して、Linux OS から接続してみます。
vSAN iSCSI Target の準備。
iSCSI Target は vSphere Web Client で構成できますが、今回も PowerCLI 10.0（Linux の）を利用します。
クラスタでは vSAN / iSCSI Target のサービスを有効にします。
デフォルトのポートは vmk1 を設定しています。
PS /home/gowatana> Get-VsanClusterConfiguration vsan-cluster-02 | Set-VsanClusterConfiguration -IscsiTargetServiceEnabled:$true -DefaultIscsiNetworkInterface vmk1
iSCSI Target のサービスが有効になりました。
PS /home/gowatana> Get-Cluster vsan-cluster-02 | Get-VsanClusterConfiguration | select VsanEnabled,IscsiTargetServiceEnabled | fl
VsanEnabled : True
IscsiTargetServiceEnabled : True
iSCSI Target を作成します。
PS /home/gowatana> Get-Cluster vsan-cluster-02 | New-VsanIscsiTarget -Name vsan-rac-target-01
IQN は、今回は自動生成されたものを使用します。LUN はまだゼロです。
PS /home/gowatana> Get-VsanIscsiTarget -Cluster vsan-cluster-02 -Name vsan-rac-target-01 | select IscsiQualifiedName,NetworkInterface,NumLuns | fl
IscsiQualifiedName : iqn.1998-01.com.vmware.52ecb04fd04ccfd2-0385259a575100b2
NetworkInterface : vmk1
NumLuns : 0
今回の環境では、iSCSI Initiator は vSAN クラスタに所属している ESXi ホストの vmk1 の IP アドレス宛に接続することになります。
PS /home/gowatana> Get-Cluster vsan-cluster-02 | Get-VMHost | Get-VMHostNetworkAdapter -Name vmk1 | select Name,VMHost,IP,SubnetMask | Sort-Object VMHost
Name VMHost IP SubnetMask
---- ------ -- ----------
vmk1 hv-n11.go-lab.jp 192.168.51.211 255.255.255.0
vmk1 hv-n12.go-lab.jp 192.168.51.212 255.255.255.0
vmk1 hv-n13.go-lab.jp 192.168.51.213 255.255.255.0
Target に LUN を作成します。今回は 3つ作成します。
PS /home/gowatana> New-VsanIscsiLun -Target vsan-rac-target-01 -Name lun0 -CapacityGB 30
PS /home/gowatana> New-VsanIscsiLun -Target vsan-rac-target-01 -Name lun1 -CapacityGB 30
PS /home/gowatana> New-VsanIscsiLun -Target vsan-rac-target-01 -Name lun2 -CapacityGB 30
Target の LUN 数が 3になりました。
PS /home/gowatana> Get-VsanIscsiTarget -Cluster vsan-cluster-02 -Name vsan-rac-target-01 | select IscsiQualifiedName,NetworkInterface,NumLuns | fl
IscsiQualifiedName : iqn.1998-01.com.vmware.52ecb04fd04ccfd2-0385259a575100b2
NetworkInterface : vmk1
NumLuns : 3
iSCSI Initiator Group を作成して、Target への接続を許可する Initiator の IQN を追加します。
今回は、iSCSI Initiator （クライアントとなる Linux 側）の IQN をあらかじめ決定しておきます。
PS /home/gowatana> Get-Cluster vsan-cluster-02 | New-VsanIscsiInitiatorGroup -Name iqn-rac-group-01
PS /home/gowatana> Get-Cluster vsan-cluster-02 | Get-VsanIscsiInitiatorGroup -Name iqn-rac-group-01 | Set-VsanIscsiInitiatorGroup -AddInitiator iqn.1988-12.com.oracle:db11
PS /home/gowatana> Get-Cluster vsan-cluster-02 | Get-VsanIscsiInitiatorGroup -Name iqn-rac-group-01 | Set-VsanIscsiInitiatorGroup -AddInitiator iqn.1988-12.com.oracle:db12
Initiator Group に IQN が登録されました。
PS /home/gowatana> Get-Cluster vsan-cluster-02 | Get-VsanIscsiInitiatorGroup -Name iqn-rac-group-01 | select InitiatorName
InitiatorName
-------------
{iqn.1988-12.com.oracle:db11, iqn.1988-12.com.oracle:db12}
Target に Initiator Group を関連付けます。
PS /home/gowatana> Get-Cluster vsan-cluster-02 | Get-VsanIscsiTarget -Name vsan-rac-target-01 | New-VsanIscsiInitiatorGroupTargetAssociation -InitiatorGroup iqn-rac-group-01
vSphere Web Client で見ると、下記のように設定してきた内容が反映されています。
Target には、作成したとおりの LUN が接続されています。
今回はふれていませんが、GUI から見ると仮想マシンと同様にストレージ ポリシーを利用できることもわかりやすいと思います。
Initiator Group も Target に割り当てられています。
iSCSI Target に接続するクライアント。
今回は、物理マシンのかわりに（製品としてはサポート外ですが）仮想マシンから接続してみます。
Oracle Linux 7 のゲストを 2台用意しています。
PS /home/gowatana> Get-VM db1? | Get-VMGuest | select VM,State,OSFullName | Sort-Object VM
VM State OSFullName
-- ----- ----------
db11 Running Oracle Linux 7 (64-bit)
db12 Running Oracle Linux 7 (64-bit)
vNIC はネットワークセグメントごとに 1つずつ用意しています。
Linux では Bondig を構成していません。
PS /home/gowatana> Get-VM db1? | Get-NetworkAdapter | select Parent,Name,NetworkName | Sort-Object Parent,Name
Parent Name NetworkName
------ ---- -----------
db11 Network adapter 1 dvpg-vds01-vlan-1011
db11 Network adapter 2 dvpg-vds01-vlan-0041
db11 Network adapter 3 dvpg-vds01-vlan-0051
db12 Network adapter 1 dvpg-vds01-vlan-1011
db12 Network adapter 2 dvpg-vds01-vlan-0041
db12 Network adapter 3 dvpg-vds01-vlan-0051
ゲスト OS です。
[root@db11 ~]# cat /etc/oracle-release
Oracle Linux Server release 7.4
それぞれ、iSCSI 接続前は下記のようにディスクを認識しています。
[root@db11 ~]# lsscsi
[2:0:0:0] disk VMware Virtual disk 2.0 /dev/sda
[2:0:1:0] disk VMware Virtual disk 2.0 /dev/sdb
[3:0:0:0] cd/dvd NECVMWar VMware SATA CD00 1.00 /dev/sr0
[root@db11 ~]# lsblk -l /dev/sd?
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 16G 0 disk
sda1 8:1 0 1G 0 part /boot
sda2 8:2 0 15G 0 part
ol-root 249:0 0 13.4G 0 lvm /
ol-swap 249:1 0 1.6G 0 lvm [SWAP]
sdb 8:16 0 20G 0 disk
vg01-data01 249:2 0 20G 0 lvm /u01
iSCSI Initiator の準備。（Linux OS）
iSCSI Initiator をインストールします。
[root@db11 ~]# yum install -y -q iscsi-initiator-utils
[root@db11 ~]# rpm -q iscsi-initiator-utils
iscsi-initiator-utils-6.2.0.874-4.0.1.el7.x86_64
IQN を Initiator Group に事前登録したものに変更しておきます。
[root@db11 ~]# cat /etc/iscsi/initiatorname.iscsi
InitiatorName=iqn.1988-12.com.oracle:89b502eafaa
[root@db11 ~]# echo 'InitiatorName=iqn.1988-12.com.oracle:db11' > /etc/iscsi/initiatorname.iscsi
[root@db11 ~]# cat /etc/iscsi/initiatorname.iscsi
InitiatorName=iqn.1988-12.com.oracle:db11
Initiator のサービスを起動しておきます。
（ただ、実は後で自動起動されます）
[root@db11 ~]# systemctl enable iscsid
Created symlink from /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/iscsid.service to /usr/lib/systemd/system/iscsid.service.
[root@db11 ~]# systemctl start iscsid
[root@db11 ~]# systemctl is-active iscsid
active
iSCSI Target への接続。
まず、vSAN クラスタ内のホストのうち 1台に接続してみます。
iSCSI Target のアドレスで discovery してから login します。
[root@db11 ~]# iscsiadm -m discovery -t sendtargets -p 192.168.51.211
192.168.51.211:3260,257 iqn.1998-01.com.vmware.52ecb04fd04ccfd2-0385259a575100b2
[root@db11 ~]# iscsiadm -m node -T iqn.1998-01.com.vmware.52ecb04fd04ccfd2-0385259a575100b2 -p 192.168.51.211 --login
Logging in to [iface: default, target: iqn.1998-01.com.vmware.52ecb04fd04ccfd2-0385259a575100b2, portal: 192.168.51.211,3260] (multiple)
Login to [iface: default, target: iqn.1998-01.com.vmware.52ecb04fd04ccfd2-0385259a575100b2, portal: 192.168.51.211,3260] successful.
vSAN による iSCSI の LUN がみえるようになります。
[root@db11 ~]# lsscsi
[2:0:0:0] disk VMware Virtual disk 2.0 /dev/sda
[2:0:1:0] disk VMware Virtual disk 2.0 /dev/sdb
[3:0:0:0] cd/dvd NECVMWar VMware SATA CD00 1.00 /dev/sr0
[33:0:0:0] disk VMware Virtual SAN 0001 /dev/sdc
[33:0:0:1] disk VMware Virtual SAN 0001 /dev/sdd
[33:0:0:2] disk VMware Virtual SAN 0001 /dev/sde
接続先ターゲットが 1ホストだけではそのホストの障害にたえられないため、
のこりの 2台のホストにも接続してみます。
[root@db11 ~]# iscsiadm -m discovery -t sendtargets -p 192.168.51.212
192.168.51.212:3260,258 iqn.1998-01.com.vmware.52ecb04fd04ccfd2-0385259a575100b2
[root@db11 ~]# iscsiadm -m discovery -t sendtargets -p 192.168.51.213
192.168.51.213:3260,258 iqn.1998-01.com.vmware.52ecb04fd04ccfd2-0385259a575100b2
[root@db11 ~]# iscsiadm -m node -T iqn.1998-01.com.vmware.52ecb04fd04ccfd2-0385259a575100b2 --login
Logging in to [iface: default, target: iqn.1998-01.com.vmware.52ecb04fd04ccfd2-0385259a575100b2, portal: 192.168.51.212,3260] (multiple)
Logging in to [iface: default, target: iqn.1998-01.com.vmware.52ecb04fd04ccfd2-0385259a575100b2, portal: 192.168.51.213,3260] (multiple)
Login to [iface: default, target: iqn.1998-01.com.vmware.52ecb04fd04ccfd2-0385259a575100b2, portal: 192.168.51.212,3260] successful.
Login to [iface: default, target: iqn.1998-01.com.vmware.52ecb04fd04ccfd2-0385259a575100b2, portal: 192.168.51.213,3260] successful.
この Target には LUN を3つ作成していて、3 経路で接続しているので
9 つのデバイス（/dev/sdc ～ /dev/sdc）として認識されました。
各行の末尾にある文字列を見ると、どのデバイスが同じ LUN なのか判別できます。
例では、実際の LUN は下記の 3つだけです。
- 1VMware_VITDEVID3a37b75af079a90e5e1e0050568adec3
- 1VMware_VITDEVID6737b75a3cc0733f381a0050568adec3
- 1VMware_VITDEVID7d37b75afa00ba22f8ea0050568adec3
[root@db11 ~]# lsscsi -i
[2:0:0:0] disk VMware Virtual disk 2.0 /dev/sda -
[2:0:1:0] disk VMware Virtual disk 2.0 /dev/sdb -
[3:0:0:0] cd/dvd NECVMWar VMware SATA CD00 1.00 /dev/sr0 -
[33:0:0:0] disk VMware Virtual SAN 0001 /dev/sdc 1VMware_VITDEVID3a37b75af079a90e5e1e0050568adec3
[33:0:0:1] disk VMware Virtual SAN 0001 /dev/sde 1VMware_VITDEVID6737b75a3cc0733f381a0050568adec3
[33:0:0:2] disk VMware Virtual SAN 0001 /dev/sdh 1VMware_VITDEVID7d37b75afa00ba22f8ea0050568adec3
[34:0:0:0] disk VMware Virtual SAN 0001 /dev/sdd 1VMware_VITDEVID3a37b75af079a90e5e1e0050568adec3
[34:0:0:1] disk VMware Virtual SAN 0001 /dev/sdg 1VMware_VITDEVID6737b75a3cc0733f381a0050568adec3
[34:0:0:2] disk VMware Virtual SAN 0001 /dev/sdi 1VMware_VITDEVID7d37b75afa00ba22f8ea0050568adec3
[35:0:0:0] disk VMware Virtual SAN 0001 /dev/sdf 1VMware_VITDEVID3a37b75af079a90e5e1e0050568adec3
[35:0:0:1] disk VMware Virtual SAN 0001 /dev/sdj 1VMware_VITDEVID6737b75a3cc0733f381a0050568adec3
[35:0:0:2] disk VMware Virtual SAN 0001 /dev/sdk 1VMware_VITDEVID7d37b75afa00ba22f8ea0050568adec3
マルチパス デバイスの構成。（DM Multipath）
複数経路で LUN にアクセスしている iSCSI Initiator で /dev/sdX というデバイスのまま利用していると、
いずれかのパスで障害があったときに経路を切り替えることができません。
そこで、Linux での一般的な方法でマルチパス デバイスを構成してみます。
ここでは、Device Mapper Multipath（DM Multipath） を利用します。
device-mapper-multipath をインストールします。
[root@db11 ~]# yum install -y -q device-mapper-multipath
[root@db11 ~]# rpm -q device-mapper-multipath
device-mapper-multipath-0.4.9-111.el7_4.2.x86_64
そして構成＆有効化します。
[root@db11 ~]# mpathconf --enable --with_multipathd y
[root@db11 ~]# systemctl is-active multipathd
active
[root@db11 ~]# mpathconf
multipath is enabled
find_multipaths is enabled
user_friendly_names is enabled
dm_multipath module is loaded
multipathd is running
マルチパスデバイス（/dev/mapper/mpatha ～ /dev/mapper/mpathc）が構成されました。
下記のように Virtual SAN（vSAN）の LUN による /dev/sdb ～ /dev/sdk が束ねられている様子が分かります。
[root@db11 ~]# multipath -ll
mpathc (1VMware_VITDEVID7d37b75afa00ba22f8ea0050568adec3) dm-5 VMware ,Virtual SAN
size=30G features='0' hwhandler='0' wp=rw
|-+- policy='service-time 0' prio=1 status=active
| `- 33:0:0:2 sde 8:64 active ready running
|-+- policy='service-time 0' prio=1 status=enabled
| `- 34:0:0:2 sdi 8:128 active ready running
`-+- policy='service-time 0' prio=1 status=enabled
`- 35:0:0:2 sdk 8:160 active ready running
mpathb (1VMware_VITDEVID6737b75a3cc0733f381a0050568adec3) dm-4 VMware ,Virtual SAN
size=30G features='0' hwhandler='0' wp=rw
|-+- policy='service-time 0' prio=1 status=active
| `- 33:0:0:1 sdd 8:48 active ready running
|-+- policy='service-time 0' prio=1 status=enabled
| `- 34:0:0:1 sdg 8:96 active ready running
`-+- policy='service-time 0' prio=1 status=enabled
`- 35:0:0:1 sdj 8:144 active ready running
mpatha (1VMware_VITDEVID3a37b75af079a90e5e1e0050568adec3) dm-3 VMware ,Virtual SAN
size=30G features='0' hwhandler='0' wp=rw
|-+- policy='service-time 0' prio=1 status=active
| `- 33:0:0:0 sdc 8:32 active ready running
|-+- policy='service-time 0' prio=1 status=enabled
| `- 34:0:0:0 sdf 8:80 active ready running
`-+- policy='service-time 0' prio=1 status=enabled
`- 35:0:0:0 sdh 8:112 active ready running
[root@db11 ~]#
iSCSI Target への接続。（Linux#2）
同様に、もう1台の Linux OS から iSCSI Target に接続します。
[root@db12 ~]# iscsiadm -m discovery -t sendtargets -p 192.168.51.211
192.168.51.211:3260,257 iqn.1998-01.com.vmware.52ecb04fd04ccfd2-0385259a575100b2
[root@db12 ~]# iscsiadm -m discovery -t sendtargets -p 192.168.51.212
192.168.51.212:3260,258 iqn.1998-01.com.vmware.52ecb04fd04ccfd2-0385259a575100b2
[root@db12 ~]# iscsiadm -m discovery -t sendtargets -p 192.168.51.213
192.168.51.213:3260,258 iqn.1998-01.com.vmware.52ecb04fd04ccfd2-0385259a575100b2
[root@db12 ~]# iscsiadm -m node -T iqn.1998-01.com.vmware.52ecb04fd04ccfd2-0385259a575100b2 --login
Logging in to [iface: default, target: iqn.1998-01.com.vmware.52ecb04fd04ccfd2-0385259a575100b2, portal: 192.168.51.211,3260] (multiple)
Logging in to [iface: default, target: iqn.1998-01.com.vmware.52ecb04fd04ccfd2-0385259a575100b2, portal: 192.168.51.212,3260] (multiple)
Logging in to [iface: default, target: iqn.1998-01.com.vmware.52ecb04fd04ccfd2-0385259a575100b2, portal: 192.168.51.213,3260] (multiple)
Login to [iface: default, target: iqn.1998-01.com.vmware.52ecb04fd04ccfd2-0385259a575100b2, portal: 192.168.51.211,3260] successful.
Login to [iface: default, target: iqn.1998-01.com.vmware.52ecb04fd04ccfd2-0385259a575100b2, portal: 192.168.51.212,3260] successful.
Login to [iface: default, target: iqn.1998-01.com.vmware.52ecb04fd04ccfd2-0385259a575100b2, portal: 192.168.51.213,3260] successful.
[root@db12 ~]# mpathconf --enable --with_multipathd y
[root@db12 ~]#
iSCSI Target に接続すると、1台目とはそれぞれの LUN のデバイス名（/dev/sdb～/dev/sdk）が異なっていることが分かります。
[root@db12 ~]# multipath -ll
mpathc (1VMware_VITDEVID7d37b75afa00ba22f8ea0050568adec3) dm-5 VMware ,Virtual SAN
size=30G features='0' hwhandler='0' wp=rw
|-+- policy='service-time 0' prio=1 status=active
| `- 33:0:0:2 sdi 8:128 active ready running
|-+- policy='service-time 0' prio=1 status=enabled
| `- 34:0:0:2 sdj 8:144 active ready running
`-+- policy='service-time 0' prio=1 status=enabled
`- 35:0:0:2 sdk 8:160 active ready running
mpathb (1VMware_VITDEVID6737b75a3cc0733f381a0050568adec3) dm-4 VMware ,Virtual SAN
size=30G features='0' hwhandler='0' wp=rw
|-+- policy='service-time 0' prio=1 status=active
| `- 33:0:0:1 sdf 8:80 active ready running
|-+- policy='service-time 0' prio=1 status=enabled
| `- 34:0:0:1 sdg 8:96 active ready running
`-+- policy='service-time 0' prio=1 status=enabled
`- 35:0:0:1 sdh 8:112 active ready running
mpatha (1VMware_VITDEVID3a37b75af079a90e5e1e0050568adec3) dm-3 VMware ,Virtual SAN
size=30G features='0' hwhandler='0' wp=rw
|-+- policy='service-time 0' prio=1 status=active
| `- 33:0:0:0 sdc 8:32 active ready running
|-+- policy='service-time 0' prio=1 status=enabled
| `- 34:0:0:0 sdd 8:48 active ready running
`-+- policy='service-time 0' prio=1 status=enabled
`- 35:0:0:0 sde 8:64 active ready running
[root@db12 ~]#
LUN のデバイス名ずれの様子について。
/dev/sdX という名前は、接続した Linux OS ごとに異なる状態になります。
しかもそのままでは永続化されない（OS 再起動などで名前が変わる）ものです。
LUN の番号ごとに、接続パスをもとにした /dev/disk/by-path 配下のデバイス名を見てみます。
Target のアドレスと sdX のデバイス名をめやすに見ると、
ノードごとに認識している名前がずれていることが判別しやすいと思います。
まず Linux OS #1 での LUN とデバイス名の対応です。
[root@db11 ~]# ls -l /dev/disk/by-path/ip-* | grep lun-0
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 9 3月 25 16:04 /dev/disk/by-path/ip-192.168.51.211:3260-iscsi-iqn.1998-01.com.vmware.52ecb04fd04ccfd2-0385259a575100b2-lun-0 -> ../../sdc
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 9 3月 25 16:04 /dev/disk/by-path/ip-192.168.51.212:3260-iscsi-iqn.1998-01.com.vmware.52ecb04fd04ccfd2-0385259a575100b2-lun-0 -> ../../sdf
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 9 3月 25 16:04 /dev/disk/by-path/ip-192.168.51.213:3260-iscsi-iqn.1998-01.com.vmware.52ecb04fd04ccfd2-0385259a575100b2-lun-0 -> ../../sdh
[root@db11 ~]# ls -l /dev/disk/by-path/ip-* | grep lun-1
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 9 3月 25 16:04 /dev/disk/by-path/ip-192.168.51.211:3260-iscsi-iqn.1998-01.com.vmware.52ecb04fd04ccfd2-0385259a575100b2-lun-1 -> ../../sdd
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 9 3月 25 16:04 /dev/disk/by-path/ip-192.168.51.212:3260-iscsi-iqn.1998-01.com.vmware.52ecb04fd04ccfd2-0385259a575100b2-lun-1 -> ../../sdg
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 9 3月 25 16:04 /dev/disk/by-path/ip-192.168.51.213:3260-iscsi-iqn.1998-01.com.vmware.52ecb04fd04ccfd2-0385259a575100b2-lun-1 -> ../../sdj
[root@db11 ~]# ls -l /dev/disk/by-path/ip-* | grep lun-2
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 9 3月 25 16:04 /dev/disk/by-path/ip-192.168.51.211:3260-iscsi-iqn.1998-01.com.vmware.52ecb04fd04ccfd2-0385259a575100b2-lun-2 -> ../../sde
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 9 3月 25 16:04 /dev/disk/by-path/ip-192.168.51.212:3260-iscsi-iqn.1998-01.com.vmware.52ecb04fd04ccfd2-0385259a575100b2-lun-2 -> ../../sdi
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 9 3月 25 16:04 /dev/disk/by-path/ip-192.168.51.213:3260-iscsi-iqn.1998-01.com.vmware.52ecb04fd04ccfd2-0385259a575100b2-lun-2 -> ../../sdk
そして Linux OS #2 での LUN とデバイス名の対応です。
[root@db12 ~]# ls -l /dev/disk/by-path/ip-* | grep lun-0
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 9 3月 25 16:16 /dev/disk/by-path/ip-192.168.51.211:3260-iscsi-iqn.1998-01.com.vmware.52ecb04fd04ccfd2-0385259a575100b2-lun-0 -> ../../sdc
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 9 3月 25 16:16 /dev/disk/by-path/ip-192.168.51.212:3260-iscsi-iqn.1998-01.com.vmware.52ecb04fd04ccfd2-0385259a575100b2-lun-0 -> ../../sdd
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 9 3月 25 16:16 /dev/disk/by-path/ip-192.168.51.213:3260-iscsi-iqn.1998-01.com.vmware.52ecb04fd04ccfd2-0385259a575100b2-lun-0 -> ../../sde
[root@db12 ~]# ls -l /dev/disk/by-path/ip-* | grep lun-1
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 9 3月 25 16:16 /dev/disk/by-path/ip-192.168.51.211:3260-iscsi-iqn.1998-01.com.vmware.52ecb04fd04ccfd2-0385259a575100b2-lun-1 -> ../../sdf
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 9 3月 25 16:16 /dev/disk/by-path/ip-192.168.51.212:3260-iscsi-iqn.1998-01.com.vmware.52ecb04fd04ccfd2-0385259a575100b2-lun-1 -> ../../sdg
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 9 3月 25 16:16 /dev/disk/by-path/ip-192.168.51.213:3260-iscsi-iqn.1998-01.com.vmware.52ecb04fd04ccfd2-0385259a575100b2-lun-1 -> ../../sdh
[root@db12 ~]# ls -l /dev/disk/by-path/ip-* | grep lun-2
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 9 3月 25 16:16 /dev/disk/by-path/ip-192.168.51.211:3260-iscsi-iqn.1998-01.com.vmware.52ecb04fd04ccfd2-0385259a575100b2-lun-2 -> ../../sdi
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 9 3月 25 16:16 /dev/disk/by-path/ip-192.168.51.212:3260-iscsi-iqn.1998-01.com.vmware.52ecb04fd04ccfd2-0385259a575100b2-lun-2 -> ../../sdj
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 9 3月 25 16:16 /dev/disk/by-path/ip-192.168.51.213:3260-iscsi-iqn.1998-01.com.vmware.52ecb04fd04ccfd2-0385259a575100b2-lun-2 -> ../../sdk
このような問題に対処するために、DM Multipath を利用します。
ほかにも、共有されたデバイスを識別しやすくするためにラベルを付与する仕組みがあったりします。
たとえば、Oracle RAC（で利用される自動ストレージ管理 / ASM）では ASMLib や ASM Filter Driver（ASMFD）
といったライブラリ / ドライバがあり、それらがラベルづけの機能も持ちます。
たとえば ASMFD では下記のようにラベルを付与でき、ノードをまたいでデバイス識別をしやすくします。
（イメージをお伝えするということで、いろいろ手順は省略しています。）
[root@db11 ~]# asmcmd afd_label DATA1 /dev/mapper/mpatha1 --init
[root@db11 ~]# asmcmd afd_label DATA2 /dev/mapper/mpathb1 --init
[root@db11 ~]# asmcmd afd_label DATA3 /dev/mapper/mpathc1 --init
[root@db11 ~]# asmcmd afd_lslbl '/dev/mapper/mpath*'
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Label Duplicate Path
================================================================================
DATA1 /dev/mapper/mpatha1
DATA2 /dev/mapper/mpathb1
DATA3 /dev/mapper/mpathc1
[root@db11 ~]#
vSAN の iSCSI Target を利用する場合は、耐障害性 / 可用性を考慮すると
接続先として複数の（ESXi ホストの） IP アドレスを指定することになるはずなのです。
実際に利用するとなると Initiator 側では、マルチパス構成やノードをまたいだデバイス共有に対応する工夫が必要になりそうです。
以上、Linux から vSAN の iSCSI Target に接続してみる話でした。
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Virtual machine hung
If you want to power off hung virtual machine ,
Try these command
1. Take process id and kill
ps | grep vmx
kill -9 <pid> 300731
Method-2:- take vmid and use this command
vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms
vim-cmd vmsvc/power.off <vmid>
Method-3 :- By world ID
esxcli vm process list ( take world id)
esxcli vm process kill -t=soft -w=wordid
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VMware Spectre Variant 2 CVE-2017-5715 with cpu microcode fix released!!
VMware has finally released the patch for Spectre Variant 2 CVE-2017-5715 version 2 which utilizes the new updated CPU microcode patch listed in VMware Security Advisory vmsa-2018-0004.3.
More information in the link below:
VMware Spectre Variant 2 CVE-2017-5715 released | RayPhoon's Virtualization and Networking Blog
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vRealize Network Insight で過去の VM 構成情報を見てみる。
vRealize Network Insight（vRNI）は NSX や vSphere などで
ネット―ワーク仮想化された環境を可視化するツールです。
vRNI では過去の特定の時点にさかのぼって情報を確認することができます。
ネットワーク構成や、トラフィックに関するメトリックだけでなく、
実は仮想マシン（VM）の構成情報なども確認できたりします。
たとえば、
「仮想マシンで設定ミスがあって修正はしたものの、
ある事件があった時点での構成はどうだったか確認したい」ようなケースがあるとします。
今回は、下記の構成を変更した環境を例として vRNI を見てみます。
- 複数ある vNIC に、間違って同じポートグループを設定していたものを修正した。
- 仮想マシンに設定している OS の種類を、事情により
「Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7」から「Oracle Linux 7」に変更した。
vRNI では、NSX のネットワーク構成だけでなく、
上記のような VM 自体についての構成情報も確認することができます。
vRNI で VM の構成情報を確認してみる。
例として「db11」という VM を検索して、その構成情報を表示してみました。
この状態は すでに設定を変更して、期待どおりの状態です。
たとえば、3時間前の VM の構成情報はどうだったのか確認したいということであれば、
「Now」のあたりをクリックしてタイム スライダーを表示し、カーソル（今は 7:55）を3時間前に移動します。
そうすると、その時間にさかのぼって・・・
3時間前（3 hr ago）の情報を確認することができます。
この時間では、まだ OS が「Red Hat Enterprise Linux ～」で、
2 つの vNIC が間違って同じネットワーク（ポートグループ）に接続されていたことがわかります。
vROps で VM の構成情報を確認してみる。
一方、同様の情報を確認できるツールとして vRealize Operations Manager （vROps）もあります。
vROps でも同様に、VM「db11」の情報を検索して表示してみます。
たとえば下記のように VM の情報を表示したり・・・
VM に関連するオブジェクトを表示したりできます。
（今回のケースでの、接続ポートグループの情報はあります）
しかし vROps では過去にさかのぼった構成情報を確認するのが困難なケースがあります。
環境構成を可視化をするという点では、やはり可視化専用ツールというだけあり vRNI の方が見やすいと思います。
ただし vRNI / vROps はどちらも、全く時差がなく情報が反映されるわけではなく、
おなじ VM についての情報でも、パラメータごとに反映への時差があることもあります。
そのため厳密な調査にはイベント情報やログの参照が必要になるとは思いますが、
それでも環境確認やトラブルシュートをするうえでは便利ではないかと思います。
以上、vRNI で過去の VM 構成を見てみる話でした。
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Configuring SNMP(v1/v2) in VCSA (using appliancesh)
Please follow the below steps to configure SNMP on VCSA:
1. SSH to your VCSA machine.
2. Switch to appliance shell using the command 'applaincesh'
(Enter the password when prompted)
3. The command 'snmp.set --help' will give all options that can be used to configure SNMP.
Usage:
snmp.set [--help/-h] --notraps STR --targets STR --users STR
--syscontact STR --port INT --communities STR --loglevel STR
--privacy ENUM --engineid STR --remoteusers STR
--syslocation STR --authentication ENUM --v3targets STR
Example: Enable SNMP in v1/v2c mode:
- snmp.enable
- snmp.set --communities <community_string>
- snmp.set --targets <IP>@<Port>/<community_string>
- snmp.test (sends a test trap to configured target)
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Docker Machine is, in my opinion, a useful and underrated tool. I’ve written before about using Docker Machine with various services/providers; for example, see this article on using Docker Machine with AWS, or this article on using Docker Machine with OpenStack. Docker Machine also supports l... - Happy Thanksgiving 2017
In the US, today (Thursday, November 23) is Thanksgiving. I’d like to take a moment to reflect on the meaning of Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving means different things to different people: To folks outside the US, it often just a day with drastically reduced email volume and no interruptions fro... - Installing Older Docker Client Binaries on Fedora
Sometimes there’s a need to have different versions of the Docker client binary available. On Linux this can be a bit challenging because you don’t want to install a “full” Docker package (which would also include the Docker daemon); you only need the binary. In this article,... - Installing Postman on Fedora 27
I recently had a need to install the Postman native app on Fedora 27. The Postman site itself only provides a link to the download and a rather generic set of instructions for installing the Postman native app (a link to these instructions for Ubuntu 16.04 is also provided). There were not, however,...
- A new update on VVols customer adoption
It’s been a while since I last reported on the customer telemetry data that we capture to track VVol adoption with 3PAR customers and wanted to provide an update. Before I share that I want to relay what I’ve seen and heard around VVols adoption in general. VVols adoption is trending upw... - How Pat Gelsinger saved VMware
I ran across this recent article in the SF Business Times and thought I would share it along with my thoughts. The article highlights VMware’s CEO Pat Gelsinger as one of the most admired CEO’s and how he helped right the VMware ship adrift in stormy seas during his tenure. You can read ... - 30 Must-Read Small Business IT Blogs 2017
I was recently honored to be included in a list of 30 must read SMB IT blogs and wanted to say thank you to BizTech for including me in that list. I looked through the blogs in that list and there is a lot of diversity in it with everything from credit card blogs to … Continue reading » ... - How VVols impacts storage protocol choices with vSphere
File vs. Block, why choose one over the other with vSphere. They both have their pros and cons which has influenced decision making when it comes to picking your storage with vSphere but VVols has changed the game of how storage protocols interact with vSphere which may also impact your decision mak... - With attendance down does this mean VMworld has jumped the shark?
As I reported in my annual post on my experiences at VMworld, attendance was down this year and in a fairly big way. VMware reported attendance at 20,000 this year which is about a 15% decline from the 23,000 who attended in 2015 & 2016. Is this a sign that less people care about what … C...
- Seriously DIY HCI or HCI Systems are you SURE?
I want to be clear – I see REAL cases where customers cover the full spectrum for real reasons – from DIY to turnkey systems. I know that we as Dell Technologies need to provide great choices for builders of IT, and consumers of IT. That said – I see some bad examples of self-inflicted pain by ... - VMworld 2017: XtremIO X2the best clean-sheet AFA gets better.
This week marks the launch of the next generation of an incredible successful product – Dell EMC XtremIO. The best way to think of X2 as the 2nd generation of XtremIO – it takes the great foundation of the strengths of XtremIO and builds on them. The core architecture of keeping all the metadata ... - VMworld 2017: re-inventing Data Protection for VMware
This is cool. Every customer needs Data Protection for their VMware environment – local backup and recovery, and protection from disaster recovery. I’ve seen every chapter of this – from the birth of Site Recovery Manager in 2008 (to Jay Judkowitz – shout out to you buddy!, the birth of CBT in 2009... - VMworld 2017: Continued Advances in Hybrid Cloud DIY Choices
If you’re coming here first – I strongly recommend reading the “Lessons Learnt” post in this series, here. It will help with context, and understanding your options and choices. Also – I strongly recommend reading this “DIY” and “Consume” blog post here – it’s very useful. Ok, with that context ... - VMworld 2017: Pivotal Container Services (PKS)
IMO – this is one of the biggest announcements at VMworld this week. It is a major shift to the Dell Technologies strategic perspective, and important for our customers. It’s something we’ve been spending a lot of time on internally for a while – I’ve spent hours at end with Scott Yara and James...
- Using esxtop to Troubleshoot Performance Problems
The resxtop and esxtop command-line utilities provide a detailed look at how ESXi uses resources in real time. Also, esxtop displays information about the state of the physical server running an ESXi Server. It lists CPU utilization for each physical processor, memory utilization, and disk a... - Planning the Capacity Using vRealize Operations Manager 6.6
You can use the Projects feature in vRealize Operations Manager to plan for capacity allocations and upgrades in your virtual environment, or to optimize your existing resources. To plan your upcoming capacity needs, you create a project that anticipates forthcoming changes that affect the capa... - Available for pre order - Mastering VMware vSphere 6.5
Mastering VMware vSphere 6.5 written by Andrea Mauro, Paolo Valsecchi and Karel Novak is available to pre-order now and is expected to be published in February 2018. ... - VMware vSAN 6.6 Witnesses, Components and Votes
Each object is composed of a set of components, determined by capabilities that are in use in the VM Storage Policy. For example, with Primary level of failures to tolerate set to 1, vSAN ensures that the protection components, such as replicas and witnesses, are placed on separate hosts in t... - Free e-book: VMware vSphere 6.5 Host Deep Dive
The VMware vSphere 6.5 Host Resources Deep Dive is a guide to building consistent high-performing ESXi hosts. A book that people can’t put down. Written for administrators, architects, consultants, aspiring VCDX-es and people eager to learn more about the elements that control the behavior of C...
- Homeserver - ESXi on HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen10
After Hewlett Packard Enterprise has missed offering a Microserver in their 9th Generation, it is now back in Gen10. The Microserver series provides affordable servers intended to be used in SMB and as home servers. Due to its low price and …Read more »... - Fix for FreeNAS on HPE MicroServer Gen10 X3216 Stuck Console Issue
When you try to install FreeNAS 11 on the new HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen10 X3216, the installer stops booting and appears to be stuck at: pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0 pcib0: _OSC returned error 0x10 pci0: <ACPI PCI …Read more »... - Get- and Set-VMLatencySensitivity PowerShell Function
The Get-VMLatencySensitivity, Get-VMLatencySensitivityBulk and Set-VMLatencySensitivity PowerShell functions configure can return and set the latency sensitivity level of a virtual machine. You can adjust the latency sensitivity of a virtual machine to optimize the scheduling delay for latency sensi... - Critical Patch for All-Flash vSAN with Deduplication (6.0 and 6.5)
VMware has released a critical patch for vSAN 6.0 and 6.5. This patch contains a fix for a highly critical vSAN issue that might cause IO read errors and in some cases severe symptoms such as inaccessible VMs, host failures, or stuck resyncs. The issue …Read more »... - Get-VMHostVersion and Get-VMHostLatestVersion PowerShell Function
The Get-VMHostVersion and Get-VMHostLatestVersion PowerShell functions are aimed at helping you to identify the version at which your ESXi is currently running, and whether updates are available. Both are using a JSON based ESXi Build database which is also the backend …Read more »...
- VeeamON Tour Virtual 2017
VeeamON is the big event from Veeam (actually only in the US) and VeeamON Tour is usually a smallest (one day) event around the world. But, like happened in the past year, on December 5 there will be also a VeeamON Tour Virtual event: coming right to your desktop, an event on the future of Availabil... - Broadcom complete the acquisition of Brocade
Finally, one year after Broadcom announced the intention acquire Brocade the deal is completed: Broadcom Limited announced that it has completed its acquisition of Brocade. With the close of this transaction, Brocade’s storage area networking (SAN) business is now a highly strategic part of Broadcom... - The rise of KVM
In the server virtualization area the main type 1 (or bare-metal) hypervisors are: VMware ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V, Xen and KVM. For the public cloud IaaS solutions the most used are Xen (AWS use a custom version) and Hyper-V (in Azure). For the on-prem infrastructure, ESXi is the most used, followed... - Free vSphere 6.5 Host Resources Deep Dive book
One of the best virtualization related book of 2017, in my opinion, is the VMware vSphere 6.5 Host Resources Deep Dive written by Frank Denneman and Niels Hagoort. It’s main target is for administrators, architects, consultants, aspiring VCDX-es and people eager to learn more about the element... - Next VMUG events in Europe
November will be a rich month for VMUG UserCon in Europe. There will be two big UserCon : Italian VMUG UserCon 2017: Nov, 14th 2017 – https://www.vmug.com/Attend/VMUG-UserCon/Italy-VMUG-UserCon-2017 UK VMUG UserCon 2017: Nov, 16th 2017 – https://www.vmug.com/Attend/VMUG-UserCon/United-Ki...
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- How Cloud Foundry Container Runtime Tackles Both Day 1 & Day 2 Operations for Production Kubernetes
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- Mitigating Mobile Risk With VMware Workspace ONE & Appthority
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- Building a Docker Swarm with Photon OS
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This week I had the opportunity to take a closer look at ECS, the Elastic Cloud Storage product from DELL-EMC. ECS normally ships as a physical appliance, composed of multiple nodes/servers, but there is also a community edition available which is FREE with no time limit for non-production use. You ... - Project Hatchway hitting the mainstream – persistent storage for containers
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I was discussing the following situation with some of our field staff today. We are aware that snapshots inherit the same policies as the base VMDK, so if I deployed a VM as a RAID-6, RAID-5, or a RAID-1, snapshots inherit the same configuration. However if I have a host failure in a 6-node vSAN run... - A closer look at Scality S3 running on vSAN
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Inevitably as a calendar year wraps up – one reflects back on the year past and dreams of the year to come. I’ve got a couple I want to get out before I curl up with a cup of eggnog, a book, by the fireplace with my family. This first one is a look back, and then the next few will be a look for... - Dell EMC XC Series the best path for Nutanix customers gets better!
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Interestingly, the adjectives and superlatives in the title are not sufficient :-) Today, our HCI portfolio also comes in “smaller” and “more cost effective” and “much more flexible”. Let me start with 3 “this I believe” strategic statements: I believe that the x86 server is becoming the base bui... - Seriously DIY HCI or HCI Systems are you SURE?
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- New Book - Mastering VMware vSphere 6.5
VMware vSphere 6.5 written by @Andrea_Mauro @NoLabNoPartY and @novakkkarel provides a powerful, flexible and secure foundation for next-generation applications which helps you create an effective digital transformation. This book will be based on VMware vSphere 6.5 which empowers you to virtual... - Video: How to configure encryption in your vSphere 6.5 environment
With vSphere Virtual Machine Encryption, you can create encrypted virtual machines and encrypt existing virtual machines. Because all virtual machine files with sensitive information are encrypted, the virtual machine is protected. Only administrators with encryption privileges can perform en... - Free e-learning course - vSphere Integrated Container Fundamentals
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This document discusses the use cases for the different types of graphics acceleration available for View virtual desktops in VMware Horizon 7. In addition, the document provides information on how to implement and troubleshoot each graphics technology. ... - Horizon 7 Enterprise Edition Multi-Site Reference Architecture
This VMware Horizon 7 Enterprise Edition reference architecture designs and validates a typical configuration for a two-data-center strategy. Most organizations need to provide a solution for disaster recovery and business continuity in case of site failure, with the least possible recovery tim...
- Homeserver - ESXi on HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen10
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- Homeserver - ESXi on HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen10
After Hewlett Packard Enterprise has missed offering a Microserver in their 9th Generation, it is now back in Gen10. The Microserver series provides affordable servers intended to be used in SMB and as home servers. Due to its low price and …Read more »... - Fix for FreeNAS on HPE MicroServer Gen10 X3216 Stuck Console Issue
When you try to install FreeNAS 11 on the new HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen10 X3216, the installer stops booting and appears to be stuck at: pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0 pcib0: _OSC returned error 0x10 pci0: <ACPI PCI …Read more »... - Get- and Set-VMLatencySensitivity PowerShell Function
The Get-VMLatencySensitivity, Get-VMLatencySensitivityBulk and Set-VMLatencySensitivity PowerShell functions configure can return and set the latency sensitivity level of a virtual machine. You can adjust the latency sensitivity of a virtual machine to optimize the scheduling delay for latency sensi... - Critical Patch for All-Flash vSAN with Deduplication (6.0 and 6.5)
VMware has released a critical patch for vSAN 6.0 and 6.5. This patch contains a fix for a highly critical vSAN issue that might cause IO read errors and in some cases severe symptoms such as inaccessible VMs, host failures, or stuck resyncs. The issue …Read more »... - Get-VMHostVersion and Get-VMHostLatestVersion PowerShell Function
The Get-VMHostVersion and Get-VMHostLatestVersion PowerShell functions are aimed at helping you to identify the version at which your ESXi is currently running, and whether updates are available. Both are using a JSON based ESXi Build database which is also the backend …Read more »...
- VMUG Virtual event
VMUG Virtual Events are the single most impactful tech events for professionals utilizing VMware products and solutions. Created by VMware users for VMware users, these FREE day-long events are geared to empower you through education, training, and collaboration, all with the goal of impacting your ... - ESXi 6.5 scratch partition issues
In the VMware ESXi 6.x partitions layout, usually there is a partition called “scratch” that hosts the log, the updates and other temporally files. Scratch space is configured automatically during installation or first boot of an ESXi host, and is not required to be manually configured. ... - VMware Cloud Foundation 2.3
VMware Cloud Foundation is VMware’s unified SDDC platform for the hybrid cloud and it’s based on VMware’s compute, storage, and network virtualization technologies to deliver a native integrated software stack that can be used on-premises for private cloud deployment or run as a se... - VeeamON Tour Virtual 2017
VeeamON is the big event from Veeam (actually only in the US) and VeeamON Tour is usually a smallest (one day) event around the world. But, like happened in the past year, on December 5 there will be also a VeeamON Tour Virtual event: coming right to your desktop, an event on the future of Availabil... - Win a year’s annual membership to Networklessons.com
Before Christmast you can can win a year’s annual membership to Networklessons.com (with a value of $290!). To learn more about Networklessons.com you can read the review on Flackbox blog. Just go on this page: https://www.flackbox.com/giveaways/networklessons You’ll see a page where you...
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NEWS AND DEVELOPMENTS FROM VMWARE
- 2018 HCI Predictions: Big Changes to Servers and Storage
By Lee Caswell, VP of Products, Storage and Availability Business Unit Lee Caswell, VP of Products, Storage and Availability Business Unit Digital transformation is not just a marketing buzzword. It’s a competitive necessity that even the most established companies are aggressively adopting: take ... - Executive Predictions for 2018 and Beyond
2017 has been a memorable and eventful year for technology innovation. As VMware and Dell Technologies CIO Bask Iyer predicted, among other things, the role of the cloud became even more integral to the business and continues on that trajectory. And as Chris Wolf, VMware’s VP and CTO of Global Fie... - Open Source Predictions for 2018
Dirk Hohndel, VP, Chief Open Source Officer at VMware In 1997, software developer Eric Raymond published an influential essay called The Cathedral and the Bazaar in which he laid out foundational ideas for many open source projects that followed. Among other things, Raymond argued that if “you have...
- Moving to Open Source: First Impressions of a Proprietary Software Engineer
by Vladislav Valtchev, VMware Open Source Technology Center Until two months ago, my whole professional experience was as a proprietary software engineer. Here at VMware, I spent the last 4.5 years working in vSphere as a C++ platform engineer, but I used open source software my whole life. Slackwar... - Project Clarity: 1 Year of Open Source Success & a New Year of Design Innovation
Project Clarity all started with a need: All our VMware applications had different looks and feel. Because of this, our teams and our customers had so many different ways of doing the same things. To meet this need, our goal was pretty simple: standardize the visual and mic-interactions driving the ... - VMware vSphere SDKs & Open Source: 2017 In Review
VMware vSphere software development kits (SDKs) added tons of notable community updates, integrations and more in 2017. To wrap your head around the momentous year, we compiled a 2017 year-end review of all the highlights around this open source tool. Sit back, buckle up and enjoy the exciting progr...
- Key Manager Concepts and Topology Basics for VM and vSAN Encryption
At VMworld 2017 VM and vSAN Encryption and security of vSphere in general became VERY popular topics. And in those discussions the topic of Key Managers came up and specifically “How many key managers should I have?” was a recurring question. This blog article will give you two examples of key ... - Three Key Reasons for Joining Modernize Data Centers Track at vForum Online
As digital transformation increases across the business world, the era of costly, complex legacy infrastructures is coming to an end. But what will it take to modernize infrastructures in such a way that IT gets the agility and flexibility it needs to operate, innovate, and scale to meet the demands... - Understanding the Impacts of Mixed-Version vCenter Server Deployments
There are a few questions that come up quite often regarding vCenter Server upgrades and mixed-versions that we would like to address. In this blog post we will discuss and attempt to clarify the guidance in the vSphere Documentation for Upgrade or Migration Order and Mixed-Version Transitional Beha...
- VMware Closes Acquisition of VeloCloud Networks
As applications and data continue to be distributed more broadly from the data center to the edge, customers are increasingly relying on software-defined wide-area networks (SD-WANs) versus traditional networking for flexible, secure connectivity. It’s for this reason that I am pleased to share tha... - Terminology Tuesday Presents: ZTP
ZTP stands for Zero Touch Provisioning. And, as a quick google search will quickly reveal, many other things as well. Back to our ZTP. ZTP is the process by which new network switches can be configured without much human involvement. Notice that I said “much” and no... - Introducing NSX-T 2.1 with Pivotal Integration
Application architectures are evolving. That shouldn’t be news to anyone. Today, emerging app architectures that leverage container-based workloads and microservices are becoming mainstream, moving from science projects in development labs to enterprise production deployments at scale. The benefits ...
- 3 Key Reasons Why You Must Attend the Modernize Data Centers Track At vForum Online
As digital transformation increases across the business world, the era of costly, complex legacy infrastructures is coming to an end. But what will it take to modernize infrastructures in such a way that IT gets the agility and flexibility it needs to operate, innovate, and scale to meet the demands... - Oakland University Accelerates Technology Growth with vSAN
At first glance, Oakland University (OU) looks like a relaxed midwestern university with rolling lawns and students lounging under spreading oaks. And while that is indeed part of the university’s charm, a closer look reveals a campus culture that is anything but sleepy. Serving more than 20,500 stu... - vSAN Announcements and Highlights from VMworld 2017
Las Vegas wasn’t the only destination on VMworld’s itinerary this year. The annual conference traveled overseas and made waves in Spain. The record breaking number of attendeeds at each event heard how vSAN surprassed the noteworthy milestone of 10,000 customers. Many of these customers were out in ...
- vRealize Network Insight 3.5 – Feel the vRNI
vRealize Network Insight 3.5 (vRNI) introduces a number of great features, which improve our visibility and ability to ensure a secure and compliant configuration. Also Network Insight is now available as a service. This means you can rely on VMware to handle management and updates of Network Insi... - IT As Developer Of Infrastructure As Code
IT As Developer: One Of The Keys To Relevance This blog is the third installment in a series focused on the question of what IT teams need to do to retain or regain relevance (depending on their circumstance) with line-of-business. For the full list check out my first blog on this subject. In a... - vRA and NSX – Intro to App-Centric Networking and Security
Introduction In a software-defined world, infrastructure is defined by policies based on a set of requirements — prescribed by the business, applications, security or IT itself. Those policies are tied to a set of logic that integrates and automates a given service as needed, when needed. For its p...
- IBM Cloud Secure Virtualization built on VMware Cloud Foundation on IBM Cloud addresses new GDPR requirements
The following post is contributed to the Cloud Foundation Blog by Andrew Guerra, Offering Manager, VMware on IBM Cloud On 25 May, 2018, the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) goes into effect in the European Union (EU), with sharper teeth than any other compliance regulation to date. W... - CONTEST: Retweet VMware Cloud Foundation for a chance to win VCF giveaways!
Starting July 26th, we’re asking you, to be a part of the Cloud Foundation community! As you might have noticed, Cloud Foundation has moved to a new Twitter handle. In order to help keep our community up-to-date on all the Cloud Foundation, hybrid cloud, and unified SDDC news and announcements, we ... - VMware Cloud Foundation on IBM Cloud addresses today’s hybrid cloud needs
The following post is contributed to the Cloud Foundation Blog by Steven M. Huntington, Program Director Offering Management, VMware on IBM Cloud IBM and VMware announced an integral partnership to extend the sale of VMware solution offerings on the IBM Cloud in February 2016. This cloud partne...
- How Cloud Foundry Container Runtime Tackles Both Day 1 & Day 2 Operations for Production Kubernetes
by Merlin Glynn, Technical Product Manager, VMware Cloud Foundry Container Runtime (CFCR), formerly known as Project KUBO, is an open source project that delivers the functionality of both Day 1 (deployment) and Day 2 (operations) tasks for Kubernetes clusters. The initial genesis behind CFCR was t... - Connect with VMware Around Containers at DockerCon EU
Copenhagen is one of Europe’s leading cities around information technology, making it the perfect locale for this year’s DockerCon EU, taking place October 16-19 at the Bella Centre in Denmark’s capital city. DockerCon is the leading container conference for practitioners to learn from other contain... - Join VMware at China Kubernetes End User Conference
On October 15, the China Kubernetes End User Conference, a joint venture put on by Caicloud, Cloud Native Computing Foundation and the “K8sMeetup China Community,” will celebrate the tremendous technological impact of Kubernetes, unveil the latest updates and enhancements around it and provide top-l...
VMware End-User Computing Blog
- 2017 Year in Review: Security Across End-User Computing
In 2017, there certainly was no shortage of cybersecurity attacks that made news on a monthly, and sometimes even weekly, basis. Most IT or security operations personnel became familiar with the major cybersecurity breaches this year, including WannaCry, Equifax and Petya. As the consumerization of ... - [Feature Spotlight] VMware Workspace ONE Intelligence in VMware AirWatch 9.2
VMware AirWatch 9.2 introduces support for custom reports with VMware Workspace ONE Intelligence. Using a cloud-based service to gather data and deliver analytics, custom reporting streamlines access to your AirWatch deployment’s critical data. Custom Reporting with Workspace ONE Intelligence This p... - Announcing Reviewer’s Guide for VMware Horizon Cloud Service with Hosted Infrastructure
We just released the new Reviewer’s Guide for VMware Horizon Cloud Service with Hosted Infrastructure to help you try VMware Horizon Cloud Service with Hosted Infrastructure. Whether you are an IT decision-maker, administrator, or architect—or just curious about Horizon Cloud—this guide is a great w...
- Here’s What Enterprise Mobility Experts Read in 2017
It’s amazing how far VMware AirWatch has come in the last 12 months in advancing unified endpoint management (UEM) and powering the leading, integrated digital workspace platform, VMware Workspace ONE. Out of all the news, here’s what enterprise mobility experts read most on the AirWatch Blog in 201... - Securing the Internet of Things
Mobile devices substantially changed the way we consume information, immersing us in an always-online world. Naturally, connected “things” arrived, further extending our connected selves and streamlining day-to-day activities through connected homes, cars, health, cities and just about any other sys... - VMware Named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape for Enterprise Mobility Management Software for Ruggedized/IoT Device Deployments
Recently, VMware was positioned as a Leader in the inaugural “IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Enterprise Mobility Management Software for Ruggedized/IoT Device Deployments 2017 Vendor Assessment.” The report profiled 13 vendors, and VMware was recognized as a leading enterprise mobility management (EMM) ...
- New KB articles published for week ending 31st December 2017
VMware vSAN Upgrading vSAN 6.6 result in long initial boot time when deduplication is enabled Date Published: 2017/12/25 Best practices KB articles on DELL EMC NetWorker 9.2 VMware Integration Date Published: 2017/12/28 DELL EMC Avamar KB articles Date Published: 2017/12/28 KB articles for Veeam bac... - New KB articles published for week ending 24th December 2017
VMware vRealize Configuration Manager Workstation VMware vRealize Configuration Manager Workstation EOA and End of Renewals Date Published: 2017/12/20 VMware User Environment Manager Using User Environment Manager to run a script with elevated privileges Date Published: 2017/12/18 UEM Privilege Elev... - New KB articles published for week ending 17th December 2017
VMware vSphere ESXi vSAN performance graphs are empty Date Published: 2017/12/15 Bootbank mounts to /tmp folder and configuration lost when booting from qfle3f device Date Published: 2017/12/11 VMware NSX for vSphere Upgrade to NSX for vSphere 6.3.5 may fail in an environment using CA certificates D... - New KB articles published for week ending 10th December 2017
VMware NSX for vSphere DLR ARP traffic is not suppressed as expected Date Published: 2017/12/04 Rising VM System Security for VMware NSX 6.3.0, 6.2.4 Date Published: 2017/12/05 Stateless Host reboot results with the error: UserVars.RmqClientToken’ is invalid or exceeds the maximum number of characte... - Top vSAN articles for November 2017
Component metadata health check fails with invalid state error vSAN Build Recommendation Engine Health fails Best practices for vSAN implementations using Dell PERC H730 or FD332-PERC storage controllers Status of TLSv1.1/1.2 Enablement and TLSv1.0 Disablement across VMware products Deployment guid...
EXTERNAL NEWS FROM 3RD PARTY BLOGGERS virtuallyGhetto
- Bulk VM Migration using new Cross vCenter vMotion Utility Fling
Over the last few years, I have spoken to a number of customers who have greatly benefited from the ability to live migrate Virtual Machines across different vCenter Servers that are NOT part of the same vCenter Single Sign-On (SSO) Domain, which I had first shared back in 2015 here and here. This e... - Deploying NSX-T VIBs and/or creating custom NSX-T Image Profile
Similiar to its earlier predecessor, NSX-T also provides complete lifecycle management (LCM) of its underlying NSX components (Controllers, Edges and Managers) including the Fabric Nodes (e.g. ESXi and/or KVM hosts). Additionally, a new Upgrade Coordinator is now part of NSX-T which greatly simplifi... - VMware Tools 10.2.0 enables Virtual Machine vNIC exclusion and priority re-ordering
VMware Tools 10.2.0 just GA'ed (release notes / download and open-vm-tools release notes / open-vm-tools download) and this release includes a number of new features like an offline bundle for VMware Tools VIB for ESXi and support for deploying VMware Tools using Microsoft System Center Configuratio... - Getting started with Hybrid Cloud Extension (HCX) on VMware Cloud on AWS
I had been hearing a lot of cool things about VMware's Hybrid Cloud Extension (HCX) but never tried the solution myself nor had a good understanding of what it actually provided. With the recently announced Hybrid Cloud Extension (HCX) on VMware Cloud on AWS (VMWonAWS) offering being available, I th... - Can the VCSA 6.5 forward to multiple syslog targets?
I had a couple folks ping me recently asking whether the latest vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) 6.5 release supports forwarding to multiple syslog targets? Currently today, only a single syslog target is officially supported which can be configured using the VAMI UI. I know this is something our cus...
- VCP6.5-DCV Objective 5.2 – Configure vSphere DRS and Storage DRS Cluster
We’re close to the end, but few more chapters are left to finish. Our study guide page continues to fill up: VCP6.5-DCV Study guide. Today’s topic: VCP6.5-DCV Objective 5.2 – Configure vSphere DRS and Storage DRS Cluster. Certainly a nice one today. The latest certification exam VCP6.5-DCV has The ... - 5 Reasons to get a Proactive Support
This post will explain an importance of a proactive support and also gives you few examples. We’ll talk about 5 Reasons to get a Proactive Support. First, we’ll talk about the reasons which make proactive support attractive those days and then we’ll look at an example of proactive support at StarWin... - VCP6.5-DCV Objective 7.2 – Troubleshoot vSphere Storage and Networking
Today’s topic is again from VCP 6.5-DCV study guide. Our study guide page continues to fill up: VCP6.5-DCV Study guide. Let’s talk about today’s chapter: VCP6.5-DCV Objective 7.2 – Troubleshoot vSphere Storage and Networking. Not an easy one, to troubleshoot vSphere issues, but necessary to know for... - VCP6.5-DCV Objective 7.1 – Troubleshoot vCenter Server and ESXi Hosts
Hope you’re having a great time during this Holiday season. But some of you might just right now studying and polish their skills to become a VMware certified professionals. So we’ll add another chapter today. vCenter server and ESXi, find and fix problems, it’s certainly important to know where to ... - VCP6.5-DCV Objective 6.1 – Configure and Administer vCenter Appliance Backup/Restore
Another VCP 6.5-DCV topic to be covered today to help to study towards VMware VCP6.5-DCV certification exam. We continue to fill our VCP6.5-DCV Study guide page where we usually do a one objective per day. Today’s chapter is VCP6.5-DCV Objective 6.1 – Configure and Administer vCenter Appliance Backu...
- Simple test for Docker Swarm functionality with Photon OS
After highlighting how easy it is to run docker swarm in Photon OS, I had a follow on question on how easy it would be to test the functionality. Just to recap, the only additional step you need to get Docker Swarm running on Photon OS was to open port 2377 on the master node. After that, you simply... - vSAN Essentials e-book is now free
A short note to let you know that Duncan and I have made the e-book version of our Essential Virtual SAN (vSAN) book available for free. We have now published it via the GitBook platform and you can find it on vsan-essentials.com. GitBook also gives you the option to download it in PDF, EPUB or MOBI... - Building a Docker Swarm with Photon OS
I’ve decided to take a look at our new vFile docker volume plugin. If you haven’t heard, vFile volume plugin for Docker provides simultaneous persistent volume access between hosts in the same Docker Swarm cluster for the base volume plugin service such as VDVS [vSphere Docker Volume Service], with ... - A closer look at ECS (Elastic Cloud Storage) running on vSAN
This week I had the opportunity to take a closer look at ECS, the Elastic Cloud Storage product from DELL-EMC. ECS normally ships as a physical appliance, composed of multiple nodes/servers, but there is also a community edition available which is FREE with no time limit for non-production use. You ... - Project Hatchway hitting the mainstream – persistent storage for containers
Regular readers will be aware that I “dabble” from time to time in the world of Cloud Native Apps. For me, a lot of this dabbling is trying to figure out how I can go about providing persistent storage to container based applications. Typically this in the shape of container volumes that are carved ...
- Installing XMind 8 on Fedora 27
XMind is a well-known cross-platform mind mapping application. Installing the latest version of XMind (version 8) on Linux is, unfortunately, more complicated than it should be. In this post, I’ll show how to get XMind 8 running on Fedora 27. So why is installing XMind more complicated than i... - Installing the VMware Horizon Client on Fedora 27
In this post, I’ll outline the steps necessary to install the VMware Horizon client for Linux on Fedora 27. Although VMware provides an “install bundle,” the bundle does not, unfortunately, address any of the prerequisites that are necessary in order for the Horizon client to work.... - Using Vagrant with Azure
In this post, I’ll describe how to use Vagrant with Azure. You can consider this article an extension of some of my earlier Vagrant articles; namely, the posts on using Vagrant with AWS and using Vagrant with OpenStack. The theme across all these posts is examining how one might use Vagrant to... - Technology Short Take 91
Welcome to Technology Short Take 91! It’s been a bit longer than usual since the last Tech Short Take (partly due to the US Thanksgiving holiday, partly due to vacation time, and partly due to business travel), so apologies for that. Still, there’s a great collection of links and article... - Installing the Azure CLI on Fedora 27
This post is a follow-up to a post from earlier this year on manually installing the Azure CLI on Fedora 25. I encourage you to refer back to that post for a bit of background. I’m writing this post because the procedure for manually installing the Azure CLI on Fedora 27 is slightly different ...
- A new update on VVols customer adoption
It’s been a while since I last reported on the customer telemetry data that we capture to track VVol adoption with 3PAR customers and wanted to provide an update. Before I share that I want to relay what I’ve seen and heard around VVols adoption in general. VVols adoption is trending upw... - How Pat Gelsinger saved VMware
I ran across this recent article in the SF Business Times and thought I would share it along with my thoughts. The article highlights VMware’s CEO Pat Gelsinger as one of the most admired CEO’s and how he helped right the VMware ship adrift in stormy seas during his tenure. You can read ... - 30 Must-Read Small Business IT Blogs 2017
I was recently honored to be included in a list of 30 must read SMB IT blogs and wanted to say thank you to BizTech for including me in that list. I looked through the blogs in that list and there is a lot of diversity in it with everything from credit card blogs to … Continue reading » ... - How VVols impacts storage protocol choices with vSphere
File vs. Block, why choose one over the other with vSphere. They both have their pros and cons which has influenced decision making when it comes to picking your storage with vSphere but VVols has changed the game of how storage protocols interact with vSphere which may also impact your decision mak... - With attendance down does this mean VMworld has jumped the shark?
As I reported in my annual post on my experiences at VMworld, attendance was down this year and in a fairly big way. VMware reported attendance at 20,000 this year which is about a 15% decline from the 23,000 who attended in 2015 & 2016. Is this a sign that less people care about what … C...
- To allTHANK YOU for 2017, and lets dream of 2018!
To all my readers, all our customers and partners, all my colleagues, all my friends – heck my competitors, thank you for everything in 2017. It was a year filled with change for me in the middle of a massive integration through the Dell acquisition – with a ton of learning, a ton of personal d... - Looking forward to 2018: Vertical Stack Wars are upon us.
This is part 3 of a 3-part blog series on things that I’m thinking about going into 2018. Warning – remember, Virtual Geek post are my musings, not an official company position. They are officially my opinions – which means they aren’t worth more than 2 cents. They aren’t authored by anyone... - Looking forward to 2018Part 2: Hint, its not about infrastructure.
If you’re just catching up, this is a part of a multi-blog post epic saga (ha!) with some things that are on my mind as I reflect towards 2018. I’d encourage you to read the first part here, which discussed the way I see the HCI market choosing between “build” and “buy” choices, and reflected on h... - Looking forward to 2018Part 1: Buy to Buy and HCI (and more)
The ongoing evolution of HCI – 2017, 2018 and beyond – in three parts. In 2016, EMC (and then Dell EMC) and VMware started with several goals – one of which was to become #1 in the HCI market by the end of 2017. That mission was accomplished mid-year 2017, so check. That said, as the calendar com... - Looking back on 2017: A turbulent year but also a year of IT pragmatism
Inevitably as a calendar year wraps up – one reflects back on the year past and dreams of the year to come. I’ve got a couple I want to get out before I curl up with a cup of eggnog, a book, by the fireplace with my family. This first one is a look back, and then the next few will be a look for...
- Latest Fling from VMware Labs - Cross vCenter Workload Migration Utility
This Fling allows users to easily migrate virtual machines in bulk from a graphical user interface between vCenter Servers (same & different SSO Domains supported) using the Cross-vCenter vMotion feature. Key Features Completely UI-driven workflow for VM migration Provides REST API for m... - Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Dutch: Vrolijk Kerstfeest en een Gelukkig Nieuwjaar! or Zalig Kerstfeest English: Merry Christmas German: Fröhliche Weihnachten French: Joyeux Noel Flemish: Zalig Kerstfeest en Gelukkig nieuw jaar Greek: Kala Christouyenna! Russian: Pozdrevlyayu s prazdnikom Rozhdestva is Novim Godom Spanish: F... - ESX IP Storage Troubleshooting Best Practice: Packet Capture and Analysis at 10G
This paper explores the challenges and alternatives for packet capture in a vSphere environment with IP storage (NFS, iSCSI) datastores over a 10G network, and presents the design of a self-assembled 10G packet capture solution that can be built using commercial components relatively inexpensiv... - Free e-book - vSAN Essentials 6.2
VMware's Virtual SAN has rapidly proven itself in environments ranging from hospitals to oil rigs to e-commerce platforms. Along the way, it has matured to offer unsurpassed features for data integrity, availability, and space efficiency. Virtual SAN 6.x makes all-flash storage practical for e... - New Book - Mastering VMware vSphere 6.5
VMware vSphere 6.5 written by @Andrea_Mauro @NoLabNoPartY and @novakkkarel provides a powerful, flexible and secure foundation for next-generation applications which helps you create an effective digital transformation. This book will be based on VMware vSphere 6.5 which empowers you to virtual...
- Homeserver - ESXi on HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen10
After Hewlett Packard Enterprise has missed offering a Microserver in their 9th Generation, it is now back in Gen10. The Microserver series provides affordable servers intended to be used in SMB and as home servers. Due to its low price and …Read more »... - Fix for FreeNAS on HPE MicroServer Gen10 X3216 Stuck Console Issue
When you try to install FreeNAS 11 on the new HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen10 X3216, the installer stops booting and appears to be stuck at: pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0 pcib0: _OSC returned error 0x10 pci0: <ACPI PCI …Read more »... - Get- and Set-VMLatencySensitivity PowerShell Function
The Get-VMLatencySensitivity, Get-VMLatencySensitivityBulk and Set-VMLatencySensitivity PowerShell functions configure can return and set the latency sensitivity level of a virtual machine. You can adjust the latency sensitivity of a virtual machine to optimize the scheduling delay for latency sensi... - Critical Patch for All-Flash vSAN with Deduplication (6.0 and 6.5)
VMware has released a critical patch for vSAN 6.0 and 6.5. This patch contains a fix for a highly critical vSAN issue that might cause IO read errors and in some cases severe symptoms such as inaccessible VMs, host failures, or stuck resyncs. The issue …Read more »... - Get-VMHostVersion and Get-VMHostLatestVersion PowerShell Function
The Get-VMHostVersion and Get-VMHostLatestVersion PowerShell functions are aimed at helping you to identify the version at which your ESXi is currently running, and whether updates are available. Both are using a JSON based ESXi Build database which is also the backend …Read more »...
- January 2018 IT events
Interesting European IT events: Nordic VMUG Meeting – Copenhagen (Jan, 11) Bett 2018 – London (Jan, 24-27) Cisco Live EU 2018 – Barcelona (Jan 29 – Feb 2) Networking Field Day Extra at Cisco Live Europe 2018 – Barcelona (Jan, 30-31) See also: January 2017 IT events (for a compariso... - PSOD on vSphere 6.5 and 10 Gbps NICs: solved!
On October 2017, I wrote a post about a possible issue with vSphere 6.5 and 10 Gbps NICs (mostly standard on new deployment). The final result was a PSOD (Purple Screen Of the Death) and no solution was available (yet). VMware KB 2151749 describe this issue as related to possible upgrade at vSphere ... - Win a VeeamON trip
In the spirit of the holiday season, Veeam is offering 6 lucky winners a fully paid trip to a VeeamON 2018 event organized in their respective region! This opportunity will close on 31 December 2017… so just few days left! Veeam will offer: round-trip flight or other transportation to the even... - New book: Mastering VMware vSphere 6.5
As written in a previous post, some months ago, I’ve started a huge personal project that consumes all my spare free time. This project was a new book on VMware vSphere 6.5, really ambitious considering that will be a “Mastering” book, but the title and part of the content were not negotiable with t... - #NutanixNTC 2018 – Nutanix Technology Champion
Nutanix has announced the new list of Nutanix Tech Champions (NTC) 2018. NTC is a community award, started on 2014, similar to others programs like VMware vExpert, Microsoft MVP, Cisco Champions, EMC Elect, … rewarding members of the community on their efforts in sharing their knowledge and enabling...
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VMware TAM Source 10.3
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Hi everyone, this week I would like to provide some detail on one of our TAM deliverables, Status Reports. As a TAM we work with both our TAM customers external to VMware as well as the internal teams that support our customers. These teams can include Sales, Engineering, Support, Product Management, System Engineers and more. In order to ensure that all of the teams and account are in sync the TAM service provides a regular update to everyone on a regular basis depending on the level of service that is provided to the TAM customer (more info here). This is an essential part of what we do, ensuring that everyone is aware of the critical projects, tasks and other items for both the customer and VMware teams and provide a visible status that can be tracked of all of these on a regular basis. If you have a TAM or are considering a TAM in your organization this is one of our many exclusive and well received deliverables providing value to your organization.
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- Unique Paths to the Top in Tech: VMware’s Sanjay Poonen on Fortt Knox
Last Fall, CNBC Squawk Alley anchor and technology correspondent Jon Fortt debuted a new digital show. Produced by CNBC, Fortt Knox is a treasure trove of deep discussions with the people who make things happen. Available as a podcast, Jon Fortt leads conversations with powerful people on how they n... - VMware on VMware Delivers Value to Customers
Before being released to customers, VMware products are developed and tested in collaboration with the company’s VMware on VMware (VoV) program. VMware’s First Customer The VoV program, which VMware and Dell Technologies CIO Bask Iyer calls the “company’s first customer,” uniquely benefits both VM... - Agents of Change: Liberty Global’s Colin Miles Believes Change Must Be Constant
VMware’s Agents of Change initiative celebrates smart CIOs who challenge the status quo. By harnessing the transformative power of technology, they are creating unlimited possibilities for their businesses. Here’s the next individual in the Agents of Change Series: Colin Miles, vice president of da...
- VMware Releases Dispatch, an Open Source Serverless Framework
VMware announced its serverless initiative at VMworld 2017, where a Functions-as-a-Service (FaaS) demo using Apache OpenWhisk, an existing open source FaaS technology, was presented. Since then, the serverless team has been working to define what a serverless framework by and for a VMware-based infr... - Moving to Open Source: First Impressions of a Proprietary Software Engineer
by Vladislav Valtchev, VMware Open Source Technology Center Until two months ago, my whole professional experience was as a proprietary software engineer. Here at VMware, I spent the last 4.5 years working in vSphere as a C++ platform engineer, but I used open source software my whole life. Slackwar... - Project Clarity: 1 Year of Open Source Success & a New Year of Design Innovation
Project Clarity all started with a need: All our VMware applications had different looks and feel. Because of this, our teams and our customers had so many different ways of doing the same things. To meet this need, our goal was pretty simple: standardize the visual and mic-interactions driving the ...
- It’s Not Too Late to Get the Scoop on vSphere 6.5
Just before the new year, the VMware Community Roundtable podcast covered key insights to vSphere 6.5 in a live episode. In case you missed it, moderator Eric Nielsen discussed reasons to upgrade to vSphere 6.5 with the “dynamic duo” of vSphere: featured guests Himanshu Singh and Martin Yip. Singh ... - vSphere VM Encryption White Paper now available
I’d like to announce the availability of a new white paper for VMware vSphere VM Encryption! VM Encryption is a feature that was introduced in vSphere 6.5. The audience for this white paper is the Manager/Director/C-level folks who want to understand how vSphere VM Encryption differs from other vir... - vSphere 6.5 DRS and Memory Balancing in Non-Overcommitted Clusters
DRS is over a decade old and is still going strong. DRS is aligned with the premise of virtualization, resource sharing and overcommitment of resources. DRS goal is to provide compute resources to the active workload to improve workload consolidation on a minimal compute footprint. However, virtuali...
- VMware NSX for vSphere 6.4 Eases Operations, Improves Application Security with Context
Summary: Generally available today, VMware NSX for vSphere 6.4 raises the bar for application security and planning, and introduces context-aware micro-segmentation For those working in security, thinking and talking about the cyber threats in the world is a constant, a necessary evil. So, for a mo... - NSX-T: OpenAPI and SDKs
Nowadays everything is about automation. Organizations are moving away from the traditional static infrastructure to full automation and here the need of NSX is significant. There are many use-cases for NSX, but the common in all of them is that they all need to be automated. VMware is investing he... - NSX-T: Routing where you need it (Part 2, North-South Routing)
In the first part of this blog series, NSX-T: Routing where you need it (Part 1), I discussed how East-West (E-W) routing is completely distributed on NSX-T and how routing is done by the Distributed Router (DR) running as a kernel module in each hypervisor. In this post, I will explain how North-...
- Assess performance impact of Spectre & Meltdown patches using vRealize Operations Manager
With this article, I wanted to share some quick tips and tricks which can help you manage the performance of your workloads while you go through the patching process for Spectre & Meltdown vulnerabilities. Before my recommendations, here are a few things which you should know about Spectre & Meltdow... - Jan 24th Webinar: Hands on with vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager and the vRealize Code Stream Management Pack for IT DevOps
On Jan 24th, we will be hosting another Getting More Out of VMware webinar. The webinar is designed for Cloud Administrators and VI Administrators who leverage vRealize Suite products, such as vRealize Automation, to run their virtual infrastructure and cloud environment. It will be a great opportu... - Monitoring MS SQL Server Performance with Wavefront Metrics-Driven Analytics
It’s always a challenge to optimize the performance of an application to be highly available and without customer-impacting latencies. For critical application services like databases, if there is a degradation in its performance, then all other services using that database will have their perform...
- vSphere Integrated Containers 1.3 Makes Deployment Easier
We are pleased to announce the release of vSphere Integrated Containers 1.3. This newest version enhances stability and delivers a new graphical-user interface to guide users through the creation of a Virtual Container Host (VCH). What’s New: Create and Delete Wizard With more and more custome... - A Look Back at KubeCon 2017
By Ryan Clair, Senior Systems Engineer The community around Kubernetes is blossoming. Attendance for this month’s KubeCon in Austin doubled last year’s audience to hit more than 4,200 attendees. That impressive number is made all the sweeter due to VMware’s participation in KubeCon 2017 as a platin... - Diving into the VMware Pivotal Container Service Webcast Series
By Susan Wu, Senior Product Marketing Manager Kubernetes is an open source cluster and container management tool originally developed by Google to orchestrate software in containers. The system gives developers a single method for deploying, scaling and managing containers on a variety of cloud ser...
VMware End-User Computing Blog
- VMware NSX Micro-Segmentation for VMware Horizon 7
Organizations that embark on the journey of building virtual desktop environments bring traditionally external endpoints into the data center. These Windows or Linux endpoints are now closer to and often reside on the same networking infrastructure as the backend application servers that these may a... - [Video] 5 Demos of the New VMware Horizon Client for iOS 4.7
Sure, your mother says she loves all her children equally. But really, she loves each of you best for short periods of time. That’s how I feel about the VMware Horizon Clients. Today, with the 4.7 release, I particularly love the iOS client. The Horizon Client for iOS 4.7 takes advantage of the drag... - [Live Demo] Managing Windows 10 Security & Compliance With VMware Workspace ONE
Discover a new, more efficient approach to Windows lifecycle management across any use case. During this live VMware Hands-on Lab (HOL), see how VMware AirWatch offers real-time, automated security and compliance for Windows 10 management. During this HOL, you’ll learn the basics of enrolling and co...
- Top 20 vSAN articles for December 2017
Component metadata health check fails with invalid state error vSAN Build Recommendation Engine Health fails Best practices for vSAN implementations using Dell PERC H730 or FD332-PERC storage controllers Replacing SSD disk on a vSAN cluster Status of TLSv1.1/1.2 Enablement and TLSv1.0 Disablement a... - Top 20 NSX articles for December 2017
Troubleshooting vShield Endpoint / NSX Guest Introspection Guest Introspection memory usage spikes to 90+% or you see the error: “Lost communication with ESX module” in NSX-V 6.3 Deploying NSX Controller fails in NSX-v 6.3.3 and 6.3.4 ESXi 5.5 and 6.0 hosts fail with a PSOD: VMCIEventDelayedDispatc... - Top 20 vSphere articles for December 2017
vCenter Appliance root Partition 100% full due to Audit.log files not being rotated “invalid credentials LDAP Error 49” error when starting Inventory Services in vCenter Server 6.x Unable to log in to the root account of vCenter Server Appliance Important information before upgrading to vSphere 6.5... - New KB articles published for week ending 14th January 2018
VMware vCenter Server Appliance vCenter Server Appliance (and PSC) 6.5 / 6.0 Workaround for CVE-2017-5753, CVE-2017-5715, CVE-2017-5754 (aka Spectre and Meltdown) Date Published: 2018/1/11 Datacenter VMware Performance Impact for CVE-2017-5753, CVE-2017-5715, CVE-2017-5754 (aka Spectre and Meltdown)... - New KB articles published for week ending 7th January 2018
VMware ESXi Unable to enable FT on the Virtual machine Date Published: 2018/1/2 VMs with vVOLs based virtual disks takes long time to power on with CBT enabled Date Published: 2018/1/3 When Secure Boot is enabled, X server will fail to start on Linux VMs using a kernel older than v3.2 Date Published...
- Patching and updates made easy with VMware Cloud Foundation
Its official, VMware released the latest version of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), 2.3. At the core of VCF is a fully automated, hyper-converged software stack that includes compute, storage and networking. Completing an upgrade of all of the components of an SDDC without VCF would typically take so... - Connecting IP-Based (NFS or ISCSI) External Storage To VMware Cloud Foundation
VMware Cloud Foundation is based on a modern hyper-converged architecture that extensively leverages VMware vSAN – a vSphere-native software-defined storage platform that delivers flash-optimized storage for the software-defined data center (SDDC). While vSAN is the primary storage platform for Clo... - Introduction to VMware Cloud Foundation 2.3
On Dec 5th, 2017, VMware announced the upcoming release of VMware Cloud Foundation 2.3. This release comes with many new capabilities to help further simplify the tasks of deploying, operating and maintaining a VMware based hybrid cloud. In this post, I will introduce you to some of the more notab...
EXTERNAL NEWS FROM 3RD PARTY BLOGGERS virtuallyGhetto
- Automating Intel Sighting remediation using PowerCLI (SSH not required)
In case you may not be aware, Intel recently notified VMware that certain Intel Broadwell and Haswell CPUs are affected by Intel Sighting after applying the latest microcode update to remediate against the Spectre vulnerability. VMware has published the following KB 52345 which provides more details... - Verify Hypervisor-Assisted Guest Mitigation (Spectre) patches using PowerCLI
VMware recently published a new knowledge base (KB) article 52085 that outlines instructions for enabling the Hypervisor-Assisted Guest Mitigation (CVE-2017-5715), also known as the Spectre vulnerability. This KB also provides steps to verify the updated microcode (included in the ESXi patch) has be... - Identifying ESXi boot method & boot device
There was an interesting discussion on our internal Socialcast platform last week on figuring out how an ESXi host is booted up whether it is from local device like a disk or USB device, Auto Deploy or even boot from SAN along with its respective boot device? Although I had answered the question, I ... - Cross vCenter Clone with vSphere 6.0+
Similar to the Cross vCenter vMotion (xVC-vMotion) feature that was introduced in vSphere 6.0, Virtual Machine cloning can also be performed across two different vCenter Servers, regardless of their deployment type or SSO configurations. If vCenter Servers are part of an Enhanced Linked Mode (ELM), ... - Quick Tip - NSX-T 2.1 upgrade gotcha, use NSX Manager IP Address vs Hostname
NSX-T 2.1 was released right before the holiday break and one of the biggest enhancement is support for VMware's upcoming Pivotal Container Service (PKS) which you can read more about here. Right before I took some much needed time off with the family, I had attempted an upgrade of my existing NSX-T...
- Vembu BDR Suite 3.9.0 is GA – Backup vSphere, Hyper-V and Physical
Vembu introduced a new release of their flagship backup product Vembu Backup and Disaster Recovery Suite. The new version of Vembu BDR Suite 3.9.0 adds some significant new features such as backup to tape allowing archiving backups. Also, encryption of backups has been added allowing to protect back... - VCP6.5-DCV Objective 10.1 – Create and Manage vSphere Virtual Machines and Templates
Today’s objective is VCP6.5-DCV Objective 10.1 – Create and Manage vSphere Virtual Machines and Templates. HA, DRS and FT are core technologies of VMware clusters. It’s important to master their requirements, configuration, and troubleshooting. Check our VCP6.5-DCV Study Guide page which is starting... - VCP6.5-DCV Objective 7.5 – Troubleshoot HA and DRS Configurations and Fault Tolerance
Today’s objective is VCP6.5-DCV Objective 7.5 – Troubleshoot HA and DRS Configurations and Fault Tolerance. HA, DRS and FT are core technologies of VMware clusters. It’s important to master their requirements, configuration, and troubleshooting. Check our VCP6.5-DCV Study Guide page which is startin... - VCP6.5-DCV Objective 7.3 – Troubleshoot vSphere Upgrades and Migrations
Today’s objective is VCP6.5-DCV Objective 7.3 – Troubleshoot vSphere Upgrades and Migrations. Its kind of a “pain” topic where you must remember many different log paths for different products, remember some error codes, but that’s the way it is. Remeber and succeed or die hard trying. Work hard and... - Ravello Hardware Assisted Nested Virtualization And Bare-Metal Options For VMware VMs
Ravello has been featured on our blog in the past already several times. Our readers know that it’s a cool service for learning virtualization or expanding your home lab and run some VMs in the cloud. You have probably read some of our How-to articles to gets you started. During those times, Ravello...
- A first look at vFile – Sharing a persistent volume between containers
Regular readers will have noticed that I have been doing a bit of work recently with docker swarm, and what you need to do to get it to work on VMs running on vSphere. The reason why I had taken such an interest is because I wanted to look at a new product that our Project Hatchway team have been co... - Validating overlay network when docker swarm running on Centos VMs on vSphere
I got a chance to revisit my docker swarm deployment this week after a bit of a break. I was a little curious about my setup because when I spoke to some of our ‘Project Hatchway‘ engineers, I was told that I should be able to launch a single instance of Nginx in Docker Swarm (“docker service create... - Simple test for Docker Swarm functionality with Photon OS
After highlighting how easy it is to run docker swarm in Photon OS, I had a follow on question on how easy it would be to test the functionality. Just to recap, the only additional step you need to get Docker Swarm running on Photon OS was to open port 2377 on the master node. After that, you simply... - vSAN Essentials e-book is now free
A short note to let you know that Duncan and I have made the e-book version of our Essential Virtual SAN (vSAN) book available for free. We have now published it via the GitBook platform and you can find it on vsan-essentials.com. GitBook also gives you the option to download it in PDF, EPUB or MOBI... - Building a Docker Swarm with Photon OS
I’ve decided to take a look at our new vFile docker volume plugin. If you haven’t heard, vFile volume plugin for Docker provides simultaneous persistent volume access between hosts in the same Docker Swarm cluster for the base volume plugin service such as VDVS [vSphere Docker Volume Service], with ...
- Technology Short Take 93
Welcome to Technology Short Take 93! Today I have another collection of data center technology links, articles, thoughts, and rants. Here’s hoping you find something useful! Networking Matt Klein breaks down service mesh components, using terms networking professionals know well, like &ldqu... - Experimenting with Azure
I’ve been experimenting with Microsoft Azure recently, and I thought it might be useful to share a quick post on using some of my favorite tools with Azure. I’ve found it useful to try to leverage existing tools whenever I can, and so as I’ve been experimenting with Azure I’v... - Issue with VMware-Formatted Cumulus VX Vagrant Box
I recently had a need to revisit the use of Cumulus VX (the Cumulus Networks virtual appliance running Cumulus Linux) in a Vagrant environment, and I wanted to be sure to test what I was doing on multiple virtualization platforms. Via Vagrant Cloud, Cumulus distributes VirtualBox and Libvirt version... - Technology Short Take 92
Welcome to Technology Short Take 92, the first Technology Short Take of 2018. This one was supposed to be the last Tech Short Take of 2017, but I didn’t get it published in time (I decided to spend time with my family instead—some things are just more important). In any case, hopefully t... - Looking Back: 2017 Project Report Card
As has become my custom for the past several years, I wanted to take a look at how well I fared on my 2017 project list. Normally I’d publish this before the end of 2017, but during this past holiday season I decided to more fully “unplug” and focus on the truly important things i...
- A new update on VVols customer adoption
It’s been a while since I last reported on the customer telemetry data that we capture to track VVol adoption with 3PAR customers and wanted to provide an update. Before I share that I want to relay what I’ve seen and heard around VVols adoption in general. VVols adoption is trending upw... - How Pat Gelsinger saved VMware
I ran across this recent article in the SF Business Times and thought I would share it along with my thoughts. The article highlights VMware’s CEO Pat Gelsinger as one of the most admired CEO’s and how he helped right the VMware ship adrift in stormy seas during his tenure. You can read ... - 30 Must-Read Small Business IT Blogs 2017
I was recently honored to be included in a list of 30 must read SMB IT blogs and wanted to say thank you to BizTech for including me in that list. I looked through the blogs in that list and there is a lot of diversity in it with everything from credit card blogs to … Continue reading » ... - How VVols impacts storage protocol choices with vSphere
File vs. Block, why choose one over the other with vSphere. They both have their pros and cons which has influenced decision making when it comes to picking your storage with vSphere but VVols has changed the game of how storage protocols interact with vSphere which may also impact your decision mak... - With attendance down does this mean VMworld has jumped the shark?
As I reported in my annual post on my experiences at VMworld, attendance was down this year and in a fairly big way. VMware reported attendance at 20,000 this year which is about a 15% decline from the 23,000 who attended in 2015 & 2016. Is this a sign that less people care about what … C...
- What a start to the year...
It's been a crazy couple days on a couple fronts, but the most material front has certainly been Spectre and Meltdown. There are lots of sources, and the trick is that while distinctly the root cause lies in the CPU domain and with the CPU manufacturers- the impact touches nearly everything. It's b... - To allTHANK YOU for 2017, and lets dream of 2018!
To all my readers, all our customers and partners, all my colleagues, all my friends – heck my competitors, thank you for everything in 2017. It was a year filled with change for me in the middle of a massive integration through the Dell acquisition – with a ton of learning, a ton of personal d... - Looking forward to 2018: Vertical Stack Wars are upon us.
This is part 3 of a 3-part blog series on things that I’m thinking about going into 2018. Warning – remember, Virtual Geek post are my musings, not an official company position. They are officially my opinions – which means they aren’t worth more than 2 cents. They aren’t authored by anyone... - Looking forward to 2018Part 2: Hint, its not about infrastructure.
If you’re just catching up, this is a part of a multi-blog post epic saga (ha!) with some things that are on my mind as I reflect towards 2018. I’d encourage you to read the first part here, which discussed the way I see the HCI market choosing between “build” and “buy” choices, and reflected on h... - Looking forward to 2018Part 1: Buy to Buy and HCI (and more)
The ongoing evolution of HCI – 2017, 2018 and beyond – in three parts. In 2016, EMC (and then Dell EMC) and VMware started with several goals – one of which was to become #1 in the HCI market by the end of 2017. That mission was accomplished mid-year 2017, so check. That said, as the calendar com...
- Demo of the VMware NSX 6.4 Context-Aware Firewall
Context- aware firewall enhances the visibility at the application level and helps to override the problem of application permeability. Visibility at the application layer helps you to monitor the workloads better from a resource, compliance, and security point of view. Firewall rules cannot... - VMware NSX 6.4 - Application Rule Manager Enhancements
With the release of VMware NSX 6.4, we have made several enhancements to the Application Rule Manager including improved context awareness, automatic recommendations for firewall rule sets, and easier and faster time to value for Day 2 operations. In this video, we’ll go through the enhancem... - NSX 6.4 Troubleshooting Guide
The NSX Troubleshooting Guide describes how to monitor and troubleshoot the VMware NSX for vSphere system by using the NSX Manager user interface, the vSphere Web Client, and other NSX components, as needed. This manual is intended for anyone who wants to use or troubleshoot any problem for NS... - Demo of the new NSX 6.4 Packet Capture Tool
If your dashboard is indicating that a host is not in a healthy state, you can capture packets for that particular host for further troubleshooting. You can capture packets using the new Packet Capture tool, to help diagnose and solve network related problems. You can create a packet capt... - New White Paper - VMware vSphere 6.5 Virtual Machine Encryption
VMware vSphere 6.5 addresses the operational and security challenges by leveraging the hypervisor to perform the encryption with no modification to the VM. The security architecture of VMware ESXi achieves this goal at the hypervisor layer. In this document, Mike Foley elaborates on how the...
- Homeserver - ESXi on HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen10
After Hewlett Packard Enterprise has missed offering a Microserver in their 9th Generation, it is now back in Gen10. The Microserver series provides affordable servers intended to be used in SMB and as home servers. Due to its low price and …Read more »... - Fix for FreeNAS on HPE MicroServer Gen10 X3216 Stuck Console Issue
When you try to install FreeNAS 11 on the new HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen10 X3216, the installer stops booting and appears to be stuck at: pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0 pcib0: _OSC returned error 0x10 pci0: <ACPI PCI …Read more »... - Get- and Set-VMLatencySensitivity PowerShell Function
The Get-VMLatencySensitivity, Get-VMLatencySensitivityBulk and Set-VMLatencySensitivity PowerShell functions configure can return and set the latency sensitivity level of a virtual machine. You can adjust the latency sensitivity of a virtual machine to optimize the scheduling delay for latency sensi... - Critical Patch for All-Flash vSAN with Deduplication (6.0 and 6.5)
VMware has released a critical patch for vSAN 6.0 and 6.5. This patch contains a fix for a highly critical vSAN issue that might cause IO read errors and in some cases severe symptoms such as inaccessible VMs, host failures, or stuck resyncs. The issue …Read more »... - Get-VMHostVersion and Get-VMHostLatestVersion PowerShell Function
The Get-VMHostVersion and Get-VMHostLatestVersion PowerShell functions are aimed at helping you to identify the version at which your ESXi is currently running, and whether updates are available. Both are using a JSON based ESXi Build database which is also the backend …Read more »...
- Vembu BDR Suite v3.9.0
Vembu is a player in the backup and data protection world, maybe not (yet) well-know, but for sure not new at all and with a complete suite that covers the physical world, the virtual (VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V) and also some public cloud SaaS solutions. One of their product is the Vembu ... - Remove a VM from a vSphere vApp
Seems that the vSphere Web Client has some bugs, also with the latest vSphere 6.5 version. It should be the main web client (see a list of possible GUI clients in vSphere 6.5), but sometimes does not work as expected (without considering possible Flash bugs). If you are using vSphere vApp (feature t... - Meltdown and Spectre: are storage affected?
Meltdown and Spectre are critical vulnerabilities existing in several modern CPU: these hardware bugs allow programs to steal data which is currently processed on the computer. Meltdown and Spectre can affect personal computers, mobile devices, server and several cloud services. Actually, the only w... - VMware Integrated OpenStack 4.1
VMware has announced the general availability (GA) of VMware Integrated OpenStack (VIO) 4.1. The new release is based on top of the Ocata release and support for the latest versions of VMware products, across vSphere, vSAN, and NSX V|T (including NSX-T LBaaSv2). OpenStack is a framework for pro... - Windows Server Insider Preview Build 17074: deduplication on ReFS!
Microsoft has just released to all Windows Insiders the new Windows Server Insider Preview Build 17074. This build is a preview build of the next Semi-Annual Channel release of Windows Server and it’s a preview of the next production build of Windows Server 2016… usually most of the feat...
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VMware TAM Source 10.2
FROM THE EDITORS VIRTUAL DESK
Hi everyone, after a very fast start to 2018 and not being able to provide a newsletter last week we are back on track now and have a great news edition for you to get 2018 going. We have of course had a bunch of security related announcements already this year regarding the spectre and meltdown bugs. VMware has responded to these and is constantly updating its guidance as fast as possible to ensure that all customers know what is going on. This is a great time to include your TAM and possibly even have a support case opened if you have any issues with the patches and your environment on what is a fluid situation, do not feel like you are doing this alone, TAMs are here to help you.
I wish you all a fantastic week and I hope you enjoy the newsletter this week.
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- Unique Paths to the Top in Tech: VMware’s Sanjay Poonen on Fortt Knox
Last Fall, CNBC Squawk Alley anchor and technology correspondent Jon Fortt debuted a new digital show. Produced by CNBC, Fortt Knox is a treasure trove of deep discussions with the people who make things happen. Available as a podcast, Jon Fortt leads conversations with powerful people on how they n... - VMware on VMware Delivers Value to Customers
Before being released to customers, VMware products are developed and tested in collaboration with the company’s VMware on VMware (VoV) program. VMware’s First Customer The VoV program, which VMware and Dell Technologies CIO Bask Iyer calls the “company’s first customer,” uniquely benefits both VM... - Agents of Change: Liberty Global’s Colin Miles Believes Change Must Be Constant
VMware’s Agents of Change initiative celebrates smart CIOs who challenge the status quo. By harnessing the transformative power of technology, they are creating unlimited possibilities for their businesses. Here’s the next individual in the Agents of Change Series: Colin Miles, vice president of da...
- VMware Releases Dispatch, an Open Source Serverless Framework
VMware announced its serverless initiative at VMworld 2017, where a Functions-as-a-Service (FaaS) demo using Apache OpenWhisk, an existing open source FaaS technology, was presented. Since then, the serverless team has been working to define what a serverless framework by and for a VMware-based infr... - Moving to Open Source: First Impressions of a Proprietary Software Engineer
by Vladislav Valtchev, VMware Open Source Technology Center Until two months ago, my whole professional experience was as a proprietary software engineer. Here at VMware, I spent the last 4.5 years working in vSphere as a C++ platform engineer, but I used open source software my whole life. Slackwar... - Project Clarity: 1 Year of Open Source Success & a New Year of Design Innovation
Project Clarity all started with a need: All our VMware applications had different looks and feel. Because of this, our teams and our customers had so many different ways of doing the same things. To meet this need, our goal was pretty simple: standardize the visual and mic-interactions driving the ...
- Key Manager Concepts and Topology Basics for VM and vSAN Encryption
At VMworld 2017 VM and vSAN Encryption and security of vSphere in general became VERY popular topics. And in those discussions the topic of Key Managers came up and specifically “How many key managers should I have?” was a recurring question. This blog article will give you two examples of key ... - Three Key Reasons for Joining Modernize Data Centers Track at vForum Online
As digital transformation increases across the business world, the era of costly, complex legacy infrastructures is coming to an end. But what will it take to modernize infrastructures in such a way that IT gets the agility and flexibility it needs to operate, innovate, and scale to meet the demands... - Understanding the Impacts of Mixed-Version vCenter Server Deployments
There are a few questions that come up quite often regarding vCenter Server upgrades and mixed-versions that we would like to address. In this blog post we will discuss and attempt to clarify the guidance in the vSphere Documentation for Upgrade or Migration Order and Mixed-Version Transitional Beha...
- VMware Closes Acquisition of VeloCloud Networks
As applications and data continue to be distributed more broadly from the data center to the edge, customers are increasingly relying on software-defined wide-area networks (SD-WANs) versus traditional networking for flexible, secure connectivity. It’s for this reason that I am pleased to share tha... - Terminology Tuesday Presents: ZTP
ZTP stands for Zero Touch Provisioning. And, as a quick google search will quickly reveal, many other things as well. Back to our ZTP. ZTP is the process by which new network switches can be configured without much human involvement. Notice that I said “much” and no... - Introducing NSX-T 2.1 with Pivotal Integration
Application architectures are evolving. That shouldn’t be news to anyone. Today, emerging app architectures that leverage container-based workloads and microservices are becoming mainstream, moving from science projects in development labs to enterprise production deployments at scale. The benefits ...
- 3 Key Reasons Why You Must Attend the Modernize Data Centers Track At vForum Online
As digital transformation increases across the business world, the era of costly, complex legacy infrastructures is coming to an end. But what will it take to modernize infrastructures in such a way that IT gets the agility and flexibility it needs to operate, innovate, and scale to meet the demands... - Oakland University Accelerates Technology Growth with vSAN
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- IBM Cloud Secure Virtualization built on VMware Cloud Foundation on IBM Cloud addresses new GDPR requirements
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Starting July 26th, we’re asking you, to be a part of the Cloud Foundation community! As you might have noticed, Cloud Foundation has moved to a new Twitter handle. In order to help keep our community up-to-date on all the Cloud Foundation, hybrid cloud, and unified SDDC news and announcements, we ... - VMware Cloud Foundation on IBM Cloud addresses today’s hybrid cloud needs
The following post is contributed to the Cloud Foundation Blog by Steven M. Huntington, Program Director Offering Management, VMware on IBM Cloud IBM and VMware announced an integral partnership to extend the sale of VMware solution offerings on the IBM Cloud in February 2016. This cloud partne...
- How Cloud Foundry Container Runtime Tackles Both Day 1 & Day 2 Operations for Production Kubernetes
by Merlin Glynn, Technical Product Manager, VMware Cloud Foundry Container Runtime (CFCR), formerly known as Project KUBO, is an open source project that delivers the functionality of both Day 1 (deployment) and Day 2 (operations) tasks for Kubernetes clusters. The initial genesis behind CFCR was t... - Connect with VMware Around Containers at DockerCon EU
Copenhagen is one of Europe’s leading cities around information technology, making it the perfect locale for this year’s DockerCon EU, taking place October 16-19 at the Bella Centre in Denmark’s capital city. DockerCon is the leading container conference for practitioners to learn from other contain... - Join VMware at China Kubernetes End User Conference
On October 15, the China Kubernetes End User Conference, a joint venture put on by Caicloud, Cloud Native Computing Foundation and the “K8sMeetup China Community,” will celebrate the tremendous technological impact of Kubernetes, unveil the latest updates and enhancements around it and provide top-l...
VMware End-User Computing Blog
- [Video] 5 Demos of the New VMware Horizon Client for iOS 4.7
Sure, your mother says she loves all her children equally. But really, she loves each of you best for short periods of time. That’s how I feel about the VMware Horizon Clients. Today, with the 4.7 release, I particularly love the iOS client. The Horizon Client for iOS 4.7 takes advantage of the dra... - [Live Demo] Managing Windows 10 Security & Compliance With VMware Workspace ONE
Discover a new, more efficient approach to Windows lifecycle management across any use case. During this live VMware Hands-on Lab (HOL), see how VMware AirWatch offers real-time, automated security and compliance for Windows 10 management. During this HOL, you’ll learn the basics of enrolling and c... - Announcing the Updated Reviewer’s Guide for VMware App Volumes
Co-authored by Josh Spencer, End-User-Computing Architect, Technical Marketing, VMware The Reviewer’s Guide for VMware App Volumes has recently been updated for VMware App Volumes 2.13.1 and includes features that benefit both IT and end users. Use this guide to learn about the architecture and wor...
- The Enterprise Mobility & GDPR Compliance Connection
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a new European law that will be enforced in May 2018. GDPR applies to any company, regardless of their physical location, that collects, manipulates and/or stores European residents’ personal data—information belonging to end users, employees, partner... - Here’s What Enterprise Mobility Experts Read in 2017
It’s amazing how far VMware AirWatch has come in the last 12 months in advancing unified endpoint management (UEM) and powering the leading, integrated digital workspace platform, VMware Workspace ONE. Out of all the news, here’s what enterprise mobility experts read most on the AirWatch Blog in 201... - Securing the Internet of Things
Mobile devices substantially changed the way we consume information, immersing us in an always-online world. Naturally, connected “things” arrived, further extending our connected selves and streamlining day-to-day activities through connected homes, cars, health, cities and just about any other sys...
- New KB articles published for week ending 7th January 2018
VMware ESXi Unable to enable FT on the Virtual machine Date Published: 2018/1/2 VMs with vVOLs based virtual disks takes long time to power on with CBT enabled Date Published: 2018/1/3 When Secure Boot is enabled, X server will fail to start on Linux VMs using a kernel older than v3.2 Date Published... - New KB articles published for week ending 31st December 2017
VMware vSAN Upgrading vSAN 6.6 result in long initial boot time when deduplication is enabled Date Published: 2017/12/25 Best practices KB articles on DELL EMC NetWorker 9.2 VMware Integration Date Published: 2017/12/28 DELL EMC Avamar KB articles Date Published: 2017/12/28 KB articles for Veeam bac... - New KB articles published for week ending 24th December 2017
VMware vRealize Configuration Manager Workstation VMware vRealize Configuration Manager Workstation EOA and End of Renewals Date Published: 2017/12/20 VMware User Environment Manager Using User Environment Manager to run a script with elevated privileges Date Published: 2017/12/18 UEM Privilege Elev... - New KB articles published for week ending 17th December 2017
VMware vSphere ESXi vSAN performance graphs are empty Date Published: 2017/12/15 Bootbank mounts to /tmp folder and configuration lost when booting from qfle3f device Date Published: 2017/12/11 VMware NSX for vSphere Upgrade to NSX for vSphere 6.3.5 may fail in an environment using CA certificates D... - New KB articles published for week ending 10th December 2017
VMware NSX for vSphere DLR ARP traffic is not suppressed as expected Date Published: 2017/12/04 Rising VM System Security for VMware NSX 6.3.0, 6.2.4 Date Published: 2017/12/05 Stateless Host reboot results with the error: UserVars.RmqClientToken’ is invalid or exceeds the maximum number of characte...
EXTERNAL NEWS FROM 3RD PARTY BLOGGERS virtuallyGhetto
- Automating Intel Sighting remediation using PowerCLI (SSH not required)
In case you may not be aware, Intel recently notified VMware that certain Intel Broadwell and Haswell CPUs are affected by Intel Sighting after applying the latest microcode update to remediate against the Spectre vulnerability. VMware has published the following KB 52345 which provides more details... - Verify Hypervisor-Assisted Guest Mitigation (Spectre) patches using PowerCLI
VMware recently published a new knowledge base (KB) article 52085 that outlines instructions for enabling the Hypervisor-Assisted Guest Mitigation (CVE-2017-5715), also known as the Spectre vulnerability. This KB also provides steps to verify the updated microcode (included in the ESXi patch) has be... - Identifying ESXi boot method & boot device
There was an interesting discussion on our internal Socialcast platform last week on figuring out how an ESXi host is booted up whether it is from local device like a disk or USB device, Auto Deploy or even boot from SAN along with its respective boot device? Although I had answered the question, I ... - Cross vCenter Clone with vSphere 6.0+
Similar to the Cross vCenter vMotion (xVC-vMotion) feature that was introduced in vSphere 6.0, Virtual Machine cloning can also be performed across two different vCenter Servers, regardless of their deployment type or SSO configurations. If vCenter Servers are part of an Enhanced Linked Mode (ELM), ... - Quick Tip - NSX-T 2.1 upgrade gotcha, use NSX Manager IP Address vs Hostname
NSX-T 2.1 was released right before the holiday break and one of the biggest enhancement is support for VMware's upcoming Pivotal Container Service (PKS) which you can read more about here. Right before I took some much needed time off with the family, I had attempted an upgrade of my existing NSX-T...
- VCP6.5-DCV Objective 7.3 – Troubleshoot vSphere Upgrades and Migrations
Today’s objective is VCP6.5-DCV Objective 7.3 – Troubleshoot vSphere Upgrades and Migrations. Its kind of a “pain” topic where you must remember many different log paths for different products, remember some error codes, but that’s the way it is. Remeber and succeed or die hard trying. Work hard and... - Ravello Hardware Assisted Nested Virtualization And Bare-Metal Options For VMware VMs
Ravello has been featured on our blog in the past already several times. Our readers know that it’s a cool service for learning virtualization or expanding your home lab and run some VMs in the cloud. You have probably read some of our How-to articles to gets you started. During those times, Ravello... - Runecast Analyzer detects Spectre and Meltdown Vulnerabilities within vSphere Clusters
Regular readers of our blog certainly noticed few articles and one product review of Runecast Analyzer for VMware vSphere environments. This product correlates VMware vSphere KB articles to your environment and points out misconfigurations, vulnerabilities or shows the best practices which should be... - VCP6.5-DCV Objective 8.1 – Configure Auto Deploy for ESXi Hosts
Today’s objective is VCP6.5-DCV Objective 8.1 – Configure Auto Deploy for ESXi Hosts. Auto deploy is cool. It allows you to boot an ESXi image from the network. Auto Deploy can provision hundreds of physical hosts with ESXi software. You can specify the image to deploy and the hosts to provision wit... - VCP6.5-DCV Objective 9.2 – Configure vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) HA
Today’s objective is VCP6.5-DCV Objective 9.2 – Configure vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) HA. A very cool topic which I tested in my lab as well. The process is able to protect VCSA appliance against failures by auto-deploying passive and witness nodes. In case of problem where the active node is lo...
- A first look at vFile – Sharing a persistent volume between containers
Regular readers will have noticed that I have been doing a bit of work recently with docker swarm, and what you need to do to get it to work on VMs running on vSphere. The reason why I had taken such an interest is because I wanted to look at a new product that our Project Hatchway team have been co... - Validating overlay network when docker swarm running on Centos VMs on vSphere
I got a chance to revisit my docker swarm deployment this week after a bit of a break. I was a little curious about my setup because when I spoke to some of our ‘Project Hatchway‘ engineers, I was told that I should be able to launch a single instance of Nginx in Docker Swarm (“docker service create... - Simple test for Docker Swarm functionality with Photon OS
After highlighting how easy it is to run docker swarm in Photon OS, I had a follow on question on how easy it would be to test the functionality. Just to recap, the only additional step you need to get Docker Swarm running on Photon OS was to open port 2377 on the master node. After that, you simply... - vSAN Essentials e-book is now free
A short note to let you know that Duncan and I have made the e-book version of our Essential Virtual SAN (vSAN) book available for free. We have now published it via the GitBook platform and you can find it on vsan-essentials.com. GitBook also gives you the option to download it in PDF, EPUB or MOBI... - Building a Docker Swarm with Photon OS
I’ve decided to take a look at our new vFile docker volume plugin. If you haven’t heard, vFile volume plugin for Docker provides simultaneous persistent volume access between hosts in the same Docker Swarm cluster for the base volume plugin service such as VDVS [vSphere Docker Volume Service], with ...
- Experimenting with Azure
I’ve been experimenting with Microsoft Azure recently, and I thought it might be useful to share a quick post on using some of my favorite tools with Azure. I’ve found it useful to try to leverage existing tools whenever I can, and so as I’ve been experimenting with Azure I’v... - Issue with VMware-Formatted Cumulus VX Vagrant Box
I recently had a need to revisit the use of Cumulus VX (the Cumulus Networks virtual appliance running Cumulus Linux) in a Vagrant environment, and I wanted to be sure to test what I was doing on multiple virtualization platforms. Via Vagrant Cloud, Cumulus distributes VirtualBox and Libvirt version... - Technology Short Take 92
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As has become my custom for the past several years, I wanted to take a look at how well I fared on my 2017 project list. Normally I’d publish this before the end of 2017, but during this past holiday season I decided to more fully “unplug” and focus on the truly important things i... - Installing XMind 8 on Fedora 27
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It’s been a while since I last reported on the customer telemetry data that we capture to track VVol adoption with 3PAR customers and wanted to provide an update. Before I share that I want to relay what I’ve seen and heard around VVols adoption in general. VVols adoption is trending upw... - How Pat Gelsinger saved VMware
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As I reported in my annual post on my experiences at VMworld, attendance was down this year and in a fairly big way. VMware reported attendance at 20,000 this year which is about a 15% decline from the 23,000 who attended in 2015 & 2016. Is this a sign that less people care about what … C...
- What a start to the year...
It's been a crazy couple days on a couple fronts, but the most material front has certainly been Spectre and Meltdown. There are lots of sources, and the trick is that while distinctly the root cause lies in the CPU domain and with the CPU manufacturers- the impact touches nearly everything. It's b... - To allTHANK YOU for 2017, and lets dream of 2018!
To all my readers, all our customers and partners, all my colleagues, all my friends – heck my competitors, thank you for everything in 2017. It was a year filled with change for me in the middle of a massive integration through the Dell acquisition – with a ton of learning, a ton of personal d... - Looking forward to 2018: Vertical Stack Wars are upon us.
This is part 3 of a 3-part blog series on things that I’m thinking about going into 2018. Warning – remember, Virtual Geek post are my musings, not an official company position. They are officially my opinions – which means they aren’t worth more than 2 cents. They aren’t authored by anyone... - Looking forward to 2018Part 2: Hint, its not about infrastructure.
If you’re just catching up, this is a part of a multi-blog post epic saga (ha!) with some things that are on my mind as I reflect towards 2018. I’d encourage you to read the first part here, which discussed the way I see the HCI market choosing between “build” and “buy” choices, and reflected on h... - Looking forward to 2018Part 1: Buy to Buy and HCI (and more)
The ongoing evolution of HCI – 2017, 2018 and beyond – in three parts. In 2016, EMC (and then Dell EMC) and VMware started with several goals – one of which was to become #1 in the HCI market by the end of 2017. That mission was accomplished mid-year 2017, so check. That said, as the calendar com...
- New Technical White Paper - App Volumes Reviewer's Guide
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This book written by Shahzad Ali begins with a discussion around the main VMware NSX for vSphere use cases. Readers are introduced to VMware NSX and its management, control, and data plane components. The discussion then moves on to relevant NSX deployment models used in small data centers, of... - Free e-learning course - Introduction to Network Virtualization with NSX
This course, which is a pre install, configure and manage level course for VMware NSX, provides an overview of the fundamentals of physical networking and VMware vSphere networking. This course also provides an overview of the software-defined data center and explains how NSX integrates wi... - Latest Fling from VMware Labs - Cross vCenter Workload Migration Utility
This Fling allows users to easily migrate virtual machines in bulk from a graphical user interface between vCenter Servers (same & different SSO Domains supported) using the Cross-vCenter vMotion feature. Key Features Completely UI-driven workflow for VM migration Provides REST API for m... - ESX IP Storage Troubleshooting Best Practice: Packet Capture and Analysis at 10G
This paper explores the challenges and alternatives for packet capture in a vSphere environment with IP storage (NFS, iSCSI) datastores over a 10G network, and presents the design of a self-assembled 10G packet capture solution that can be built using commercial components relatively inexpensiv...
- Homeserver - ESXi on HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen10
After Hewlett Packard Enterprise has missed offering a Microserver in their 9th Generation, it is now back in Gen10. The Microserver series provides affordable servers intended to be used in SMB and as home servers. Due to its low price and …Read more »... - Fix for FreeNAS on HPE MicroServer Gen10 X3216 Stuck Console Issue
When you try to install FreeNAS 11 on the new HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen10 X3216, the installer stops booting and appears to be stuck at: pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0 pcib0: _OSC returned error 0x10 pci0: <ACPI PCI …Read more »... - Get- and Set-VMLatencySensitivity PowerShell Function
The Get-VMLatencySensitivity, Get-VMLatencySensitivityBulk and Set-VMLatencySensitivity PowerShell functions configure can return and set the latency sensitivity level of a virtual machine. You can adjust the latency sensitivity of a virtual machine to optimize the scheduling delay for latency sensi... - Critical Patch for All-Flash vSAN with Deduplication (6.0 and 6.5)
VMware has released a critical patch for vSAN 6.0 and 6.5. This patch contains a fix for a highly critical vSAN issue that might cause IO read errors and in some cases severe symptoms such as inaccessible VMs, host failures, or stuck resyncs. The issue …Read more »... - Get-VMHostVersion and Get-VMHostLatestVersion PowerShell Function
The Get-VMHostVersion and Get-VMHostLatestVersion PowerShell functions are aimed at helping you to identify the version at which your ESXi is currently running, and whether updates are available. Both are using a JSON based ESXi Build database which is also the backend …Read more »...
- Is the HTML5-based vSphere Client ready to replace the vSphere Web Client?
VMware vSphere, during its history and the different version, has got several types of GUI client. One of the most used (not the first, but the standard one since Virtual Infrastructure 3.0) was the vSphere Client for Windows. But on May 2016 VMware has announced that the Legacy C# Client (aka thick... - Meltdown and Spectre: are storage affected?
Meltdown and Spectre are critical vulnerabilities existing in several modern CPU: these hardware bugs allow programs to steal data which is currently processed on the computer. Meltdown and Spectre can affect personal computers, mobile devices, server and several cloud services. Actually, the only w... - Meltdown and Spectre: check a vSphere environment
Meltdown and Spectre are critical vulnerabilities existing in several modern CPU: these hardware bugs allow programs to steal data which is currently processed on the computer. Meltdown and Spectre can affect personal computers, mobile devices, server and several cloud services. Actually, the only w... - Microsoft PowerShell Core 6.0
PowerShell Core 6.0 is the new edition of the powerful Microsoft’s scripting language PowerShell. At the beginning, it was only for the latest version of Microsoft Windows operating systems, but in the last year has finally become cross-platform (Windows, macOS, and Linux), open-source, and bu... - Add VMware Tools v10.2 to your vSphere environment
One month ago, VMware has released a new branch of the VMware Tools, the version VMware Tools 10.2.0 some a new interesting feature: the offline VIB bundle. With this package, you can simply upgrade the embedded VMware Tools components in your VMware ESXi hosts in order to continue to update your VM...
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VMware vRealize Automation “Error processing ping report” messages in logs in vRealize Automation 7 Date Published: 2018/1/21 vRealize Automation Appliance 6.2.x Workaround for CVE-2017-5753, CVE-2017-5715, CVE-2017-5754 (aka Spectre and Meltdown) Date Published: 2018/1/24 VMware SDDC Manager ... - New KB articles published for week ending 21th January 2018
VMware SDDC Manage VMware Cloud Foundation Upgrade fails because of HA agent issues Date Published: 2018/1/15 VMware Cloud Foundation Upgrade fails because of NSX Service Deployments Date Published: 2018/1/15 How to hide the speculative-execution control mechanism for virtual machines in a VMwa... - Top 20 vSAN articles for December 2017
Component metadata health check fails with invalid state error vSAN Build Recommendation Engine Health fails Best practices for vSAN implementations using Dell PERC H730 or FD332-PERC storage controllers Replacing SSD disk on a vSAN cluster Status of TLSv1.1/1.2 Enablement and TLSv1.0 Disablem... - Top 20 NSX articles for December 2017
Troubleshooting vShield Endpoint / NSX Guest Introspection Guest Introspection memory usage spikes to 90+% or you see the error: “Lost communication with ESX module” in NSX-V 6.3 Deploying NSX Controller fails in NSX-v 6.3.3 and 6.3.4 ESXi 5.5 and 6.0 hosts fail with a PSOD: VMCIEventDelayedDis... - Top 20 vSphere articles for December 2017
vCenter Appliance root Partition 100% full due to Audit.log files not being rotated “invalid credentials LDAP Error 49” error when starting Inventory Services in vCenter Server 6.x Unable to log in to the root account of vCenter Server Appliance Important information before upgrading to vSphere...
- Patching and updates made easy with VMware Cloud Foundation
Its official, VMware released the latest version of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), 2.3. At the core of VCF is a fully automated, hyper-converged software stack that includes compute, storage and networking. Completing an upgrade of all of the components of an SDDC without VCF would typically take so... - Connecting IP-Based (NFS or ISCSI) External Storage To VMware Cloud Foundation
VMware Cloud Foundation is based on a modern hyper-converged architecture that extensively leverages VMware vSAN – a vSphere-native software-defined storage platform that delivers flash-optimized storage for the software-defined data center (SDDC). While vSAN is the primary storage platform for Clo... - Introduction to VMware Cloud Foundation 2.3
On Dec 5th, 2017, VMware announced the upcoming release of VMware Cloud Foundation 2.3. This release comes with many new capabilities to help further simplify the tasks of deploying, operating and maintaining a VMware based hybrid cloud. In this post, I will introduce you to some of the more notab...
EXTERNAL NEWS FROM 3RD PARTY BLOGGERS virtuallyGhetto
- Automating Intel Sighting remediation using PowerCLI (SSH not required)
In case you may not be aware, Intel recently notified VMware that certain Intel Broadwell and Haswell CPUs are affected by Intel Sighting after applying the latest microcode update to remediate against the Spectre vulnerability. VMware has published the following KB 52345 which provides more details... - Verify Hypervisor-Assisted Guest Mitigation (Spectre) patches using PowerCLI
VMware recently published a new knowledge base (KB) article 52085 that outlines instructions for enabling the Hypervisor-Assisted Guest Mitigation (CVE-2017-5715), also known as the Spectre vulnerability. This KB also provides steps to verify the updated microcode (included in the ESXi patch) has be... - Identifying ESXi boot method & boot device
There was an interesting discussion on our internal Socialcast platform last week on figuring out how an ESXi host is booted up whether it is from local device like a disk or USB device, Auto Deploy or even boot from SAN along with its respective boot device? Although I had answered the question, I ... - Cross vCenter Clone with vSphere 6.0+
Similar to the Cross vCenter vMotion (xVC-vMotion) feature that was introduced in vSphere 6.0, Virtual Machine cloning can also be performed across two different vCenter Servers, regardless of their deployment type or SSO configurations. If vCenter Servers are part of an Enhanced Linked Mode (ELM), ... - Quick Tip - NSX-T 2.1 upgrade gotcha, use NSX Manager IP Address vs Hostname
NSX-T 2.1 was released right before the holiday break and one of the biggest enhancement is support for VMware's upcoming Pivotal Container Service (PKS) which you can read more about here. Right before I took some much needed time off with the family, I had attempted an upgrade of my existing NSX-T...
- 3CX Phone System Free vs Paid
Over the past few years, I’ve been following 3CX Phone system software development. Their product has matured over the years, packed with more features, Linux and Windows platforms do have feature parity as well. Today we’ll have a look at 3CX Phone System Free vs Paid version, in order to see wheth... - Top 3 VM Replication Software for VMware vSphere Environments
This post will highlight some of the known replication software for VMware VM replication. We will focus on Top 3 VM Replication Software for VMware vSphere. There are a lot of backup/replication vendors out there, but in this post, we’ll pick just 3 of them (including VMware) and highlight some of ... - VCP6.5-DCV Objective 8.2 – Create and Deploy Host Profiles
Today’s objective is VCP6.5-DCV Objective 8.2 – Create and Deploy Host Profiles. Host profiles are part of VMware vSphere Enterprise Plus licensing. Host profiles have been criticised back in a day for the bugs and inconsistencies, but vSphere 6.5 brought some significant improvements in host profil... - Veeam PN Generaly Available – Free Software
If you follow Veeam, you have certainly not missed quite a few blog posts about Veeam PN (Powered Network) software. Already during VeeamON 2017, we could see a functional demo, but the solution was not GA at that time. Now Veeam has finally released the final version of Veeam PN and it’s available ... - What is StarWind Deduplication Analyzer Free Tool?
StarWind Deduplication Analyzer Free Tool allows you to evaluate deduplication ratio for a drive/volume. StarWind Deduplication Analyzer makes this without the need to move large amounts of data, taking up a minimal time to estimate deduplication results. The tool is a simple executable, no need to ...
- Registering the Pure Storage VASA Provider
Hot on the heels on Pure Storage’s recent announcement on Virtual Volume (VVol) support, I wanted to take a closer look at their VVol implementation for myself. Thanks to the support team over at Pure, they were able to very quickly update our lab array to the latest release that has support for VVo... - Big news from Pure Storage
There was lots of big news yesterday from our friends over at Pure Storage. First of all, we had an announcement about their Virtual Volume (VVol) implementation going GA. This is very exciting for me, and I look forward to testing it out in our lab. The implementation is a VASA 3.0 implementation, ... - A new vSAN training class – vSAN Production Operations – now available
A short post today to let you know about a new VMware training class that I helped to create. This new class is called VMware vSAN Production Operations, and is a new 3 day class delivered by our Education Services division. As you can imagine from the title, this class is geared towards administrat... - A first look at vFile – Sharing a persistent volume between containers
Regular readers will have noticed that I have been doing a bit of work recently with docker swarm, and what you need to do to get it to work on VMs running on vSphere. The reason why I had taken such an interest is because I wanted to look at a new product that our Project Hatchway team have been co... - Validating overlay network when docker swarm running on Centos VMs on vSphere
I got a chance to revisit my docker swarm deployment this week after a bit of a break. I was a little curious about my setup because when I spoke to some of our ‘Project Hatchway‘ engineers, I was told that I should be able to launch a single instance of Nginx in Docker Swarm (“docker service create...
- Using Docker Machine with Azure
I’ve written about using Docker Machine with a number of different providers, such as with AWS, with OpenStack, and even with a local KVM/Libvirt daemon. In this post, I’ll expand that series to show using Docker Machine with Azure. (This is a follow-up to my earlier post on experimentin... - An Update on Using Docker Machine with Vagrant
As part of a project on which I’m working, I’ve been spending some time working with Docker Machine and Vagrant over the last few days. You may recall that I first wrote about using these two tools together back in August 2015. As a result of spending some additional time with these tool... - Technology Short Take 93
Welcome to Technology Short Take 93! Today I have another collection of data center technology links, articles, thoughts, and rants. Here’s hoping you find something useful! Networking Matt Klein breaks down service mesh components, using terms networking professionals know well, like &ldqu... - Experimenting with Azure
I’ve been experimenting with Microsoft Azure recently, and I thought it might be useful to share a quick post on using some of my favorite tools with Azure. I’ve found it useful to try to leverage existing tools whenever I can, and so as I’ve been experimenting with Azure I’v... - Issue with VMware-Formatted Cumulus VX Vagrant Box
I recently had a need to revisit the use of Cumulus VX (the Cumulus Networks virtual appliance running Cumulus Linux) in a Vagrant environment, and I wanted to be sure to test what I was doing on multiple virtualization platforms. Via Vagrant Cloud, Cumulus distributes VirtualBox and Libvirt version...
- A new job for me and reflecting on 2017
2017 was a bit of a tough year for me mainly due to the major surgery that my daughter Sophia had and the subsequent very painful recovery from it. I’d have to say that was one of the most difficult and stressful things that I have been through in my life and I am very … Continue readin... - 2017 VVols year in review
I tend to write a lot about VMware VVols these days as I believe VMware’s new storage architecture has many benefits and VVols is the future of storage for vSphere. In this post I thought I would highlight and recap some of the posts that I did in 2017 related to VVols and you have … Co... - A new update on VVols customer adoption
It’s been a while since I last reported on the customer telemetry data that we capture to track VVol adoption with 3PAR customers and wanted to provide an update. Before I share that I want to relay what I’ve seen and heard around VVols adoption in general. VVols adoption is trending upw... - How Pat Gelsinger saved VMware
I ran across this recent article in the SF Business Times and thought I would share it along with my thoughts. The article highlights VMware’s CEO Pat Gelsinger as one of the most admired CEO’s and how he helped right the VMware ship adrift in stormy seas during his tenure. You can read ... - 30 Must-Read Small Business IT Blogs 2017
I was recently honored to be included in a list of 30 must read SMB IT blogs and wanted to say thank you to BizTech for including me in that list. I looked through the blogs in that list and there is a lot of diversity in it with everything from credit card blogs to … Continue reading » ...
- What a start to the year...
It's been a crazy couple days on a couple fronts, but the most material front has certainly been Spectre and Meltdown. There are lots of sources, and the trick is that while distinctly the root cause lies in the CPU domain and with the CPU manufacturers- the impact touches nearly everything. It's b... - To allTHANK YOU for 2017, and lets dream of 2018!
To all my readers, all our customers and partners, all my colleagues, all my friends – heck my competitors, thank you for everything in 2017. It was a year filled with change for me in the middle of a massive integration through the Dell acquisition – with a ton of learning, a ton of personal d... - Looking forward to 2018: Vertical Stack Wars are upon us.
This is part 3 of a 3-part blog series on things that I’m thinking about going into 2018. Warning – remember, Virtual Geek post are my musings, not an official company position. They are officially my opinions – which means they aren’t worth more than 2 cents. They aren’t authored by anyone... - Looking forward to 2018Part 2: Hint, its not about infrastructure.
If you’re just catching up, this is a part of a multi-blog post epic saga (ha!) with some things that are on my mind as I reflect towards 2018. I’d encourage you to read the first part here, which discussed the way I see the HCI market choosing between “build” and “buy” choices, and reflected on h... - Looking forward to 2018Part 1: Buy to Buy and HCI (and more)
The ongoing evolution of HCI – 2017, 2018 and beyond – in three parts. In 2016, EMC (and then Dell EMC) and VMware started with several goals – one of which was to become #1 in the HCI market by the end of 2017. That mission was accomplished mid-year 2017, so check. That said, as the calendar com...
- VMware NSX for vSphere End-User Computing Design Guide 1.2
This guide highlights design and deployment considerations when using NSX to implement network virtualization, create a secure end user environment, and load balance Horizon infrastructure. The intended audience is virtualization, networking, and security architects who are interested in depl... - VMware vSAN 6.6 - Number of votes and witnesses explained
I got a question from a fellow VCI asking me why a vSAN policy with FTT=1 and SW=2 doesn't need any witnesses and why a policy with FTT=2 and SW=1 needs two witnesses. He was also confused by the number of votes the components got. There's a simple answer for this, please keep in mind that com... - Demo of the VMware NSX 6.4 Context-Aware Firewall
Context- aware firewall enhances the visibility at the application level and helps to override the problem of application permeability. Visibility at the application layer helps you to monitor the workloads better from a resource, compliance, and security point of view. Firewall rules cannot... - VMware NSX 6.4 - Application Rule Manager Enhancements
With the release of VMware NSX 6.4, we have made several enhancements to the Application Rule Manager including improved context awareness, automatic recommendations for firewall rule sets, and easier and faster time to value for Day 2 operations. In this video, we’ll go through the enhancem... - NSX 6.4 Troubleshooting Guide
The NSX Troubleshooting Guide describes how to monitor and troubleshoot the VMware NSX for vSphere system by using the NSX Manager user interface, the vSphere Web Client, and other NSX components, as needed. This manual is intended for anyone who wants to use or troubleshoot any problem for NS...
- Homeserver - ESXi on HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen10
After Hewlett Packard Enterprise has missed offering a Microserver in their 9th Generation, it is now back in Gen10. The Microserver series provides affordable servers intended to be used in SMB and as home servers. Due to its low price and …Read more »... - Fix for FreeNAS on HPE MicroServer Gen10 X3216 Stuck Console Issue
When you try to install FreeNAS 11 on the new HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen10 X3216, the installer stops booting and appears to be stuck at: pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0 pcib0: _OSC returned error 0x10 pci0: <ACPI PCI …Read more »... - Get- and Set-VMLatencySensitivity PowerShell Function
The Get-VMLatencySensitivity, Get-VMLatencySensitivityBulk and Set-VMLatencySensitivity PowerShell functions configure can return and set the latency sensitivity level of a virtual machine. You can adjust the latency sensitivity of a virtual machine to optimize the scheduling delay for latency sensi... - Critical Patch for All-Flash vSAN with Deduplication (6.0 and 6.5)
VMware has released a critical patch for vSAN 6.0 and 6.5. This patch contains a fix for a highly critical vSAN issue that might cause IO read errors and in some cases severe symptoms such as inaccessible VMs, host failures, or stuck resyncs. The issue …Read more »... - Get-VMHostVersion and Get-VMHostLatestVersion PowerShell Function
The Get-VMHostVersion and Get-VMHostLatestVersion PowerShell functions are aimed at helping you to identify the version at which your ESXi is currently running, and whether updates are available. Both are using a JSON based ESXi Build database which is also the backend …Read more »...
- Mastering VMware vSphere 6.5 book feedback
One months ago, the Mastering VMware vSphere 6.5 book has been published and we already have some interesting feedback. Considering that it’s the first book experience (not only for me, but also for the other co-authors), and that neither of us it’s a native English speaker, we are reall... - Technology Live 2018!
Technology Live! is a one-day event where up to four vendors showcase their technologies in action to a group of technical journalists, bloggers and analysts. A combination of presentations and demos allows each company to present its solutions with a much higher level of detail than is usually poss... - Nutanix software options on Dell-EMC PowerEdge
Nutanix platform has been extended from the origina offer (appliance based single vendor only) to add more flexibile options… with more nodes options (also storage or compute only) and with different hardware vendors (including Dell-EMC, Lenovo, Cisco, HPE). Starting with Cisco and HPE the opt... - VMware Tools installation remains pending
There are some cases where the VMware Tools installation, if you run it from the vSphere platform, remain pending and you cannot end this task anymore. Also if VMware Tools are up and running properly. It’s something boring because may block you in several other tasks. For example you cannot m... - Resize a Linux filesystem without LVM
Increse the VM disk size in a virtual environment it’s so easy, on almost all hypervisor. But maybe it’s not so easy or fast increase the partition and the filesystem inside the guest OS. For Windows OSes, starting with 2008 (Windows Server 2008 and Vista) it’s quite easy. For Lin...
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NEWS AND DEVELOPMENTS FROM VMWARE
- Moving Toward an Enterprise Culture of Employee Trust and Empowerment
Command and control used to be IT’s modus operandi. Not anymore. Employees, tired of being directed to use approved technology that doesn’t meet their expectations, are taking matters into their own hands. They’re now choosing emerging technologies that enable them to work better and smarter, and th... - Software Reshapes the Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Market
Recently, Gartner, Inc. recognized VMware as a leader in its inaugural Magic Quadrant for Hyper-converged Infrastructure based on its ability to execute and completeness of vision. The research firm revised its model to place greater emphasis on the underlying software that powers HCI solutions, a t... - Report: The Impact of a Digitally Empowered Workforce
Today’s enterprises are transforming at a rapid pace: digital ambassadors are replacing tellers in bank branches; HR teams are improving the hiring process by engaging prospective employees earlier and more often; clinicians are updating patient charts at hospital bedsides. With unprecedented acces...
- Diligence, Grit and Passion Rewarded | Rupa Dachere — Women in Open Source Nominee
“That’s an hour I’ll never get back,” said no volunteer ever – especially if you’ve devoted your energies toward something you’re passionate about. Weary from a day at work, you step into your “other self” and suddenly find new energy. At VMware, those passionate personal projects are encouraged – t... - VMware Releases Dispatch, an Open Source Serverless Framework
VMware announced its serverless initiative at VMworld 2017, where a Functions-as-a-Service (FaaS) demo using Apache OpenWhisk, an existing open source FaaS technology, was presented. Since then, the serverless team has been working to define what a serverless framework by and for a VMware-based infr... - Moving to Open Source: First Impressions of a Proprietary Software Engineer
by Vladislav Valtchev, VMware Open Source Technology Center Until two months ago, my whole professional experience was as a proprietary software engineer. Here at VMware, I spent the last 4.5 years working in vSphere as a C++ platform engineer, but I used open source software my whole life. Slackwar...
- Virtually Speaking Podcast #67 Resource Management
Two weeks ago Pete Flecha (a.k.a. Pedro Arrow) and John Nicholson invited me to their always awesome podcast to talk about resource management. During our conversation, we covered both on-prem and the features of VMware Cloud on AWS that help cater the needs of your workload. Being a guest on t... - It’s Not Too Late to Get the Scoop on vSphere 6.5
Just before the new year, the VMware Community Roundtable podcast covered key insights to vSphere 6.5 in a live episode. In case you missed it, moderator Eric Nielsen discussed reasons to upgrade to vSphere 6.5 with the “dynamic duo” of vSphere: featured guests Himanshu Singh and Martin Yip. Sing... - vSphere VM Encryption White Paper now available
I’d like to announce the availability of a new white paper for VMware vSphere VM Encryption! VM Encryption is a feature that was introduced in vSphere 6.5. The audience for this white paper is the Manager/Director/C-level folks who want to understand how vSphere VM Encryption differs from other vir...
- Introducing VMware NSX-T Reference Design
Available now is the VMware NSX-T Reference Design Guide, a deployment path to adopting NSX with diverse multi-domain workload requirements – multi-cloud (private/public), multi-hypervisor, and multiple application frameworks (VMs, PaaS and containers). Since VMware acquired Nicira almost five... - Context-Aware Micro-segmentation – Remote Desktop Session Host Enhancements for VMware Horizon
In a previous post my colleague, Stijn, discussed the enhancements to how NSX for vSphere 6.4 handles Remote Desktop Session Host, RDSH, systems with the Identity-based Firewall and Context-Aware Micro-segmentation. Remote Desktop Services is an underlying technology from Microsoft that many vendor... - Context-Aware Micro-segmentation – an innovative approach to Application and User Identity Firewall
Summary: With Context-awareness, NSX for vSphere 6.4 enables customers to enforce policy based on Application and Protocol Identification and expands the Identity Firewall support to Multiple User Sessions. A few weeks ago, VMware released version 6.4 of NSX for vSphere. The 6.4 release brings man...
- Extending vRealize Operations with Collaboration Tools, RESTful APIs, and Webhook Shims — David Davis on vRealize Operations Post #50
vRealize Operations doesn’t live or work on an island in the datacenter. Recently, I learned how vRealize Ops can integrate with any tools that support a RESTful API – which includes just about every modern collaboration tools in the world today. There are so many cool use cases for extending and i... - Two leading hypervisors, one pane of glass
Two leading hypervisors, one pane of glass Is your organization one of the growing number that run both VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V? It’s not uncommon for Enterprise Infrastructures to contain multiple virtualization platforms, the two most common being VMware ESXi and Microsoft Hyper-V. Most a... - Managing SDDC as Code – Development at Scale
The software development process for large application teams is evolving in an effort to reduce overall project time and improve schedule accuracy. Projects are more complex than ever, especially when you include the mix of deployment options for a modern enterprise application. With Agile software ...
- Announcing Pivotal Container Service General Availability
By Narayan Mandaleeka, Senior Product Line Manager Today, VMware and Pivotal are excited to announce the general availability of Pivotal Container Service (PKS). PKS is a Kubernetes-based container service designed to meet the needs of operators and developers by providing native Kubernetes combine... - Uncorking Fine Wine by Using an IoT Pipeline with Kubernetes on vSphere
By Tom Scanlan, Emerging Technologies Practice, Professional Service Introduction The AMER PSO Cross-Cloud team and the PS ERD Emerging Technologies team (which I am a part of) have been developing the following demonstration application to facilitate discussions around Internet of Things (IoT) an... - Join VMware at This Year’s DeveloperWeek Conference
By Susan Wu, Senior Product Marketing Manager Every spring, more than 8,000 developers from 40 different countries make the trip to the San Francisco Bay Area to participate in one of the world’s largest fanfests: DeveloperWeek. VMware will be the lead sponsor of this year’s DeveloperWeek, and we h...
VMware End-User Computing Blog
- Empowering the Digital Workspace: How the City of San Antonio Does It
With 1.4 million people, San Antonio, Texas is the seventh largest city in the United States and a digital workspace pioneer. Faced with an aging and cumbersome Citrix XenDesktop environment, the city began to implement several digital workspace initiatives using VMware solutions. Now any computer-... - Securing the Digital Workspace & Putting #EmployeesFirst
As an employee at VMware, I use my own digital workspace for access to my apps and data every day. Our internal IT staff has deployed VMware Workspace ONE to help deliver a secure digital workspace to tens of thousands of my colleagues, giving each of us access to our apps and data according to our ... - [Video] Overcoming Challenges Facing Enterprise IT With the Digital Workspace
When it comes to enabling users with applications, the world of enterprise IT has never been more challenging. If we go back only a few years, organisations primarily used not only Microsoft Windows devices but also Windows applications. Enterprise mobility and the consumerisation of IT led to a hug...
- Top 20 vSphere articles for January 2018
“The transaction log for database ‘VIM_VCDB’ is full” error on a Microsoft SQL DB server ESXi 5.5 Update 3b and later hosts are not manageable after an upgrade “Host IPMI system event log status” alarm in vCenter Server Determining where growth is occurring in the vCenter Server database ESXi host... - Top 20 NSX articles for January 2018
Troubleshooting vShield Endpoint / NSX Guest Introspection Status of TLSv1.1/1.2 Enablement and TLSv1.0 Disablement across VMware products Collecting diagnostic information for the NSX Guest Introspection MUX VIB Deploying NSX Controller fails in NSX-v 6.3.3 and 6.3.4 Slow VMs after upgrading VMwar... - Top 20 vSAN articles for January 2018
Status of TLSv1.1/1.2 Enablement and TLSv1.0 Disablement across VMware products Component metadata health check fails with invalid state error Best practices for vSAN implementations using Dell PERC H730 or FD332-PERC storage controllers vSAN Build Recommendation Engine Health fails “Host cannot c... - New KB articles published for week ending 4th February 2018
VMware NSX for vSphere VDS Operation failed errors after moving a host to Non-NSX cluster in NSX 6.3.x Date Published: 2018/1/29 VMware Horizon H264 Decode on NVIDIA latest driver crashes with multimonitor Date Published:2018/1/30 VMware vCenter Server Appliance DNS resolution of Windows Active Dir... - New KB articles published for week ending 28th January 2018
VMware vRealize Automation “Error processing ping report” messages in logs in vRealize Automation 7 Date Published: 2018/1/21 vRealize Automation Appliance 6.2.x Workaround for CVE-2017-5753, CVE-2017-5715, CVE-2017-5754 (aka Spectre and Meltdown) Date Published: 2018/1/24 VMware SDDC Manager SDDC M...
- Patching and updates made easy with VMware Cloud Foundation
Its official, VMware released the latest version of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), 2.3. At the core of VCF is a fully automated, hyper-converged software stack that includes compute, storage and networking. Completing an upgrade of all of the components of an SDDC without VCF would typically take so... - Connecting IP-Based (NFS or ISCSI) External Storage To VMware Cloud Foundation
VMware Cloud Foundation is based on a modern hyper-converged architecture that extensively leverages VMware vSAN – a vSphere-native software-defined storage platform that delivers flash-optimized storage for the software-defined data center (SDDC). While vSAN is the primary storage platform for Clo... - Introduction to VMware Cloud Foundation 2.3
On Dec 5th, 2017, VMware announced the upcoming release of VMware Cloud Foundation 2.3. This release comes with many new capabilities to help further simplify the tasks of deploying, operating and maintaining a VMware based hybrid cloud. In this post, I will introduce you to some of the more notab...
EXTERNAL NEWS FROM 3RD PARTY BLOGGERS virtuallyGhetto
- Automating Intel Sighting remediation using PowerCLI (SSH not required)
In case you may not be aware, Intel recently notified VMware that certain Intel Broadwell and Haswell CPUs are affected by Intel Sighting after applying the latest microcode update to remediate against the Spectre vulnerability. VMware has published the following KB 52345 which provides more details... - Verify Hypervisor-Assisted Guest Mitigation (Spectre) patches using PowerCLI
VMware recently published a new knowledge base (KB) article 52085 that outlines instructions for enabling the Hypervisor-Assisted Guest Mitigation (CVE-2017-5715), also known as the Spectre vulnerability. This KB also provides steps to verify the updated microcode (included in the ESXi patch) has be... - Identifying ESXi boot method & boot device
There was an interesting discussion on our internal Socialcast platform last week on figuring out how an ESXi host is booted up whether it is from local device like a disk or USB device, Auto Deploy or even boot from SAN along with its respective boot device? Although I had answered the question, I ... - Cross vCenter Clone with vSphere 6.0+
Similar to the Cross vCenter vMotion (xVC-vMotion) feature that was introduced in vSphere 6.0, Virtual Machine cloning can also be performed across two different vCenter Servers, regardless of their deployment type or SSO configurations. If vCenter Servers are part of an Enhanced Linked Mode (ELM), ... - Quick Tip - NSX-T 2.1 upgrade gotcha, use NSX Manager IP Address vs Hostname
NSX-T 2.1 was released right before the holiday break and one of the biggest enhancement is support for VMware's upcoming Pivotal Container Service (PKS) which you can read more about here. Right before I took some much needed time off with the family, I had attempted an upgrade of my existing NSX-T...
- How To do an Offline Update of Turbonomic
Sometimes you don’t have an internet connectivity within your data center so to update your different appliances needs to be done an Off-Line way. This is possible for all VMware products appliances, such as vCenter server or ESXi, and also for vendor’s products, such as the one from Turbonomic. So ... - Stratoscale Symphony Runs Natively Or On The Top of VMware vSphere
Public cloud strategy might work for some but might not work for others. If you the one who perhaps invested a lot of money and work into cloud-native apps that now works only in AWS, you might seem to be “locked in” this situation forever. You might be paying astronomical bills for using the AWS [&... - Zerto Virtual Replication 6.0 With Any2Any Multi-Cloud
In it’s latest release, Zerto announces a major one with multi-cloud support and some important new features, including useful enhancements of current features. Zerto Virtual Replication 6.0 is a major release of their flagship product. Besides new Azure to Azure replication, Zerto can now do Azure ... - Opvizor Performance Analyzer and Starter Troubleshooting Dashboards for VMware vSphere
Opvizor Performance Analyzer is a performance monitoring product for VMware vSphere environments. Performance analyzer can monitor vSphere environment as a whole, starting with core infrastructure (ESXi, vSphere) to finish with VMs. When firefighting bad performance of an environment, you need to se... - LibreOffice 6.0 Released
An unusual topic today, but why not. It’s been over a decade since free Office Suites exists (perhaps even longer). Since 2010 that this-this Free Office Suite, driven by the community, was brought to life. Available in 110 languages, and free of charge. A few days back, the version 6.0 of LibreOffi...
- Catch me at a VMUG in early 2018
Well, I’m delighted to have been invited to present at quite a few VMUGs recently, so I thought I’d share the details of them with you here. I’ve been working on my presentation which is called “What is happening in the world of VMware Storage?”. In fact, there is a lot going on, not just in the wor... - Registering the Pure Storage VASA Provider
Hot on the heels on Pure Storage’s recent announcement on Virtual Volume (VVol) support, I wanted to take a closer look at their VVol implementation for myself. Thanks to the support team over at Pure, they were able to very quickly update our lab array to the latest release that has support for VVo... - Big news from Pure Storage
There was lots of big news yesterday from our friends over at Pure Storage. First of all, we had an announcement about their Virtual Volume (VVol) implementation going GA. This is very exciting for me, and I look forward to testing it out in our lab. The implementation is a VASA 3.0 implementation, ... - A new vSAN training class – vSAN Production Operations – now available
A short post today to let you know about a new VMware training class that I helped to create. This new class is called VMware vSAN Production Operations, and is a new 3 day class delivered by our Education Services division. As you can imagine from the title, this class is geared towards administrat... - A first look at vFile – Sharing a persistent volume between containers
Regular readers will have noticed that I have been doing a bit of work recently with docker swarm, and what you need to do to get it to work on VMs running on vSphere. The reason why I had taken such an interest is because I wanted to look at a new product that our Project Hatchway team have been co...
- Some Tools to Help Learn Kubernetes
Kubernetes is emerging as the clear leader in the container orchestration space. This makes it an important technology to know and understand. However, like other distributed systems, learning something like Kubernetes can be challenging due to the effort involved in getting Kubernetes up and runnin... - Technology Short Take 94
Welcome to Technology Short Take 94! Ready for another round of links, articles, and thoughts on data center technologies? (Who knows, maybe I’ll throw a rant or two in there.) OK, enough rambling…here’s the good stuff! Networking Amit Aneja has a two-part series (so far) expla... - Running OVS on Fedora Atomic Host
In this post, I’d like to share the results of some testing I’ve been doing to run Open vSwitch (OVS) in containers on a container-optimized Linux distribution such as Atomic Host (Fedora Atomic Host, specifically). I’m still relatively early in my exploration of this topic, but I ... - Using Docker Machine with Azure
I’ve written about using Docker Machine with a number of different providers, such as with AWS, with OpenStack, and even with a local KVM/Libvirt daemon. In this post, I’ll expand that series to show using Docker Machine with Azure. (This is a follow-up to my earlier post on experimentin... - An Update on Using Docker Machine with Vagrant
As part of a project on which I’m working, I’ve been spending some time working with Docker Machine and Vagrant over the last few days. You may recall that I first wrote about using these two tools together back in August 2015. As a result of spending some additional time with these tool...
- A new job for me and reflecting on 2017
2017 was a bit of a tough year for me mainly due to the major surgery that my daughter Sophia had and the subsequent very painful recovery from it. I’d have to say that was one of the most difficult and stressful things that I have been through in my life and I am very … Continue readin... - 2017 VVols year in review
I tend to write a lot about VMware VVols these days as I believe VMware’s new storage architecture has many benefits and VVols is the future of storage for vSphere. In this post I thought I would highlight and recap some of the posts that I did in 2017 related to VVols and you have … Co... - A new update on VVols customer adoption
It’s been a while since I last reported on the customer telemetry data that we capture to track VVol adoption with 3PAR customers and wanted to provide an update. Before I share that I want to relay what I’ve seen and heard around VVols adoption in general. VVols adoption is trending upw... - How Pat Gelsinger saved VMware
I ran across this recent article in the SF Business Times and thought I would share it along with my thoughts. The article highlights VMware’s CEO Pat Gelsinger as one of the most admired CEO’s and how he helped right the VMware ship adrift in stormy seas during his tenure. You can read ... - 30 Must-Read Small Business IT Blogs 2017
I was recently honored to be included in a list of 30 must read SMB IT blogs and wanted to say thank you to BizTech for including me in that list. I looked through the blogs in that list and there is a lot of diversity in it with everything from credit card blogs to … Continue reading » ...
- What a start to the year...
It's been a crazy couple days on a couple fronts, but the most material front has certainly been Spectre and Meltdown. There are lots of sources, and the trick is that while distinctly the root cause lies in the CPU domain and with the CPU manufacturers- the impact touches nearly everything. It's b... - To allTHANK YOU for 2017, and lets dream of 2018!
To all my readers, all our customers and partners, all my colleagues, all my friends – heck my competitors, thank you for everything in 2017. It was a year filled with change for me in the middle of a massive integration through the Dell acquisition – with a ton of learning, a ton of personal d... - Looking forward to 2018: Vertical Stack Wars are upon us.
This is part 3 of a 3-part blog series on things that I’m thinking about going into 2018. Warning – remember, Virtual Geek post are my musings, not an official company position. They are officially my opinions – which means they aren’t worth more than 2 cents. They aren’t authored by anyone... - Looking forward to 2018Part 2: Hint, its not about infrastructure.
If you’re just catching up, this is a part of a multi-blog post epic saga (ha!) with some things that are on my mind as I reflect towards 2018. I’d encourage you to read the first part here, which discussed the way I see the HCI market choosing between “build” and “buy” choices, and reflected on h... - Looking forward to 2018Part 1: Buy to Buy and HCI (and more)
The ongoing evolution of HCI – 2017, 2018 and beyond – in three parts. In 2016, EMC (and then Dell EMC) and VMware started with several goals – one of which was to become #1 in the HCI market by the end of 2017. That mission was accomplished mid-year 2017, so check. That said, as the calendar com...
- Free e-learning course - VMware AirWatch Fundamentals
This course is an introductory product training that presents the basic architecture and demonstrates the features that deliver on the most common use cases. After completing this course, you should be able to: Explain the role AirWatch plays in the digital wokspace. Choose the best AirWatc... - High Availability and Disaster Recovery with VMware vSAN and VMware Site Recovery Manager
In this session, we will learn how a vSAN stretched cluster and vSphere HA provide resiliency against entire site failures. VMware will also cover the ease of integrating vSphere Replication and Site Recovery Manager to provide reliable, automated disaster recovery. VMware vSphere, vSAN, and... - VMware NSX for vSphere 6.4: Multi-Session Identity Firewall
In this video, VMware demonstrates how the Multi-Session Identity Firewall feature in NSX for vSphere 6.4 enables per user-session security for customers use Remote Desktop Services through VMware Horizon RDSH or Citrix XenApp. Augmenting the existing Identity Firewall feature, Multi-Session... - VMware NSX for vSphere End-User Computing Design Guide 1.2
This guide highlights design and deployment considerations when using NSX to implement network virtualization, create a secure end user environment, and load balance Horizon infrastructure. The intended audience is virtualization, networking, and security architects who are interested in depl... - VMware vSAN 6.6 - Number of votes and witnesses explained
I got a question from a fellow VCI asking me why a vSAN policy with FTT=1 and SW=2 doesn't need any witnesses and why a policy with FTT=2 and SW=1 needs two witnesses. He was also confused by the number of votes the components got. There's a simple answer for this, please keep in mind that com...
- How to Install VMware vSphere Perl SDK on Debian 9 (stretch)
Download the latest Perl SDK for your vSphere version from code.vmware.com and copy it to the system. The download is free, but an My VMware account is required. vSphere Perl SDK for vSphere 6.5 vSphere Perl SDK for vSphere 6.0 vSphere …Read more »... - Homeserver - ESXi on HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen10
After Hewlett Packard Enterprise has missed offering a Microserver in their 9th Generation, it is now back in Gen10. The Microserver series provides affordable servers intended to be used in SMB and as home servers. Due to its low price and …Read more »... - Fix for FreeNAS on HPE MicroServer Gen10 X3216 Stuck Console Issue
When you try to install FreeNAS 11 on the new HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen10 X3216, the installer stops booting and appears to be stuck at: pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0 pcib0: _OSC returned error 0x10 pci0: <ACPI PCI …Read more »... - Get- and Set-VMLatencySensitivity PowerShell Function
The Get-VMLatencySensitivity, Get-VMLatencySensitivityBulk and Set-VMLatencySensitivity PowerShell functions configure can return and set the latency sensitivity level of a virtual machine. You can adjust the latency sensitivity of a virtual machine to optimize the scheduling delay for latency sensi... - Critical Patch for All-Flash vSAN with Deduplication (6.0 and 6.5)
VMware has released a critical patch for vSAN 6.0 and 6.5. This patch contains a fix for a highly critical vSAN issue that might cause IO read errors and in some cases severe symptoms such as inaccessible VMs, host failures, or stuck resyncs. The issue …Read more »...
- Meltdown and Spectre: far from the solution?
In June 2017, a team constituted of independent researchers, university research labs, and some of Google’s Project Zero members and cyberus technology discovered two security vulnerabilities enabled by the widespread use of speculative execution in most of the CPU. The problem was also independentl... - Using Linux Kernel 4.15 to minimize Meltdown and Spectre
Linux Kernel 4.15 has been released on 28 Jan 2018 and, thanks to the entire Linux Kernel development team, this release contains the latest code to deal with Meltdown and Spectre issues and minize the related risks. The Kernel is the core code in the operating system managing low level tasks. In th... - Rubrik acquires Datos IO
Rubrik has announced that it has agreed to acquire Datos IO, a market leader in backup and recovery for NoSQL databases and big data file systems. Datos IO is the application-centric data management company for the multi-cloud world. Datos IO delivers a radically novel approach to data management, h... - New Dell-EMC PowerEdge servers with AMD EPYC
On May 2017, Dell EMC announced the next generation of PowerEdge servers: the new 14th generation, the first with the new Dell-EMC logo. After less than 3 years from the introduction of Generation 13 of PowerEdge series, the newly designed 14th generation of the Dell EMC PowerEdge server portfolio f... - Per VM license in Veeam products
Veeam licenses software in a variety of ways depending on the specific product and/or use case you are interested in. This includes licensing by the number of CPU sockets on a managed server (or host), as well as by the number of VMs, physical servers, workstations, cloud instances and/or users bein...
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