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Nested Virtualization: Oracle Ravello Cloud – Infrastructure Technical Overview
I have been playing around with Oracle Ravello Cloud and my colleagues asked me about this Cloud platform. I thought of writing this post to give an overview of the Oracle Cloud and hope you can get...
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VMware Virtualized DMZ Security Architectures
To mitigate the risk in your VMware environment you need to have a properly configured Security Zones in your Network. Your end users should not have access to the Management interfaces and it should...
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Adjust NFS Queue Depth – Best Practices to avoid NFS Performance Issues
When you connected the NFS Datastores with NetApp filers you can be seen some connectivity and performance degradation in your Storage, one best practice is to set the appropriate Queue Depth Values in...
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Storage Reclamation from SCSI UNMAP command in VMware
VMware supports to reclaim the deleted thin provisioned Storage blocks from UNMAP commands also known as SCSI UNMAP command. This VAAI storage reclamation primitive feature has been introduced in...
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Nested Virtualization: Deploying VSAN on Oracle Ravello Cloud
You can easily deploy your Lab with this Oracle Ravello Cloud and I deployed my VMware VSAN datastore on top of this nested virtualization platform. I thought of writing this article after completion...
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Creating and Managing Custom TCP/IP Stack in VMware
In vSphere 5.1 and earlier version of VMware vSphere there was only one single TCP/IP stack for all the traffic types such as management, vMotion and virtual machine traffic. Because of this common...
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Working with VMware vSphere 6.5 vCenter embedded vPostgres database – CLI...
VMware latest releases ship with the vPostgres database as their embedded database. If you are planning to migrate your current VMware environment you will get this as an option. If you are not sure...
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VMware Cloud on AWS – New Pricing Packages
VMware has launched the VMware on AWS at the VMworld 2017 and it leverages the VMware’s powerful software capabilities along with the AWS’s elastic bare metal infrastructure as a Cloud service. VMware...
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Download Your Fee e-book: Host Resources Deep Dive
You might aware that the book Released by @FrankDenneman and @NHagoort in this year. One of the great book that you can learn about vSphere 6.5 resources. Now you can download this as a free e-book....
View ArticleVMware vExpert Swag Bag
Today I just received the VMware vExpert Swag bag from FedEx Delivery. VMware just sent this as a token of appreciation of the work that has been done by the vExperts. That was really awesome…! Thank...
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VMware vCenter 6.5 Appliance Builds Have Been Replaced
VMware vCenter Appliance is the next generation vCenter server and this VCSA 6.5 Appliance builds have been replaced due to a deployment-impacting issue as of 14th of November 2017. This is only for...
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Migrate Windows Based Distributed vCenter Server 5.5 to a vCenter Server 6.5...
I’ve been busy with the vSphere 5.5 to 6.5 upgrade work with last month and didn’t a chance to upgrade my blog. I thought to write an article to show the step by step guide to migrate the Windows based...
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LUN Becomes Unavailable – Unable to connect to the MKS: Virtual Machine...
We have experienced this in few environments and I thought to write this in my blog. Firstly, I’d like to share the symptoms that we experienced in this case before we discuss the fix. We have been...
View ArticleSpeculative Execution Security Issues with VMware – Spectre and Meltdown
It was announced that the CPU data cache timing can be abused by the software layer and can lead to an information security vulnerability. This is a direct impact to a shared resource utilization and...
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How To Reset ESXi iDRAC Password
I was stuck with my office work and didn’t get a chance to write couple of posts in my blog, so after a while I thought to write this useful article for all my it folks. I’m going to show the complete...
View ArticleOracle Ravello Cloud vExpert Community Call – First Community call
With the beginning of the year 2018 Oracle Ravello has decided to start the monthly Community call and I’m so excited with this. Here I’m sharing the YouTube video call for all my followers and...
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Power CLI 6.5.1 Connection error: Connect-VIServer : Could not load file or...
I was about to execute couple of PowerCLI scripts and I encountered some strange issue while trying to connect to my vCenter server. I was using PowerCLI 6.5.1 which releases as a PowerShell module and...
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First Impression of VMware Skyline and Deployment
If you are running a business critical workload in a VMware Virtualized datacenter proactive analytics, fast and environment specific remediation and recommendations are one of the key factors come in...
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vCenter 6.0 U2: SSL Regeneration ERROR –“Error in generating cert for store...
I was doing some SSL certificate updates in one of my VMware environments and I had to face couple of issues while I’m updating the SSL Certs. Issue appeared in Windows based vCenter 6.0 U2 server. We...
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vCenter 6.0 U2: SSL Regeneration ERROR –“Error in updating certificate for...
This is another error appeared in one of my SSL certificate regeneration tasks. I was regenerating the solution user certificates and certificate regeneration was failed and performed the automatic...
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