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Vitalii Feshchenko
  • Vitalii Feshchenko
  • August 12, 2024

Deep dive into VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 8.1. Part 2 – Creating a Disaster Recovery Site

Having a disaster recovery site is a must for any company. That’s why I wrote an article some time ago on how to set up Site Recovery Manager (SRM) so that it allows for creating a disaster recovery site. Today, I describe how you can actually create that site and migrate your VMs from the main site there.
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Vitalii Feshchenko
  • Vitalii Feshchenko
  • July 28, 2024

Closed for Maintenance: Things You Should Know About Maintenance Mode

Admins shut down their hosts for servicing from time to time. After closing for maintenance one node, vSAN cluster resources are to be re-distributed, and here Maintenance Mode comes into play. Today, I’d like to discuss the whole idea of maintenance mode and its options.
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Serge Yankov
  • March 22, 2024

How to clone VMs if VMware vCenter is unavailable

There are various tricks and hints we all use to make our daily system administration routines easier. One of them is virtual machine cloning provided by VMware vCenter Server. Great and simple thing allowing you to deploy many identical virtual machines to a group – no need to repeat the same process all over again. This is usually done in vCenter but there are several other ways you can go if it becomes unavailable.
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Nicolas Prigent
  • Nicolas Prigent
  • January 12, 2023

Connecting VMware vSphere with Azure Arc

Azure Arc enables you to extend Azure management capabilities to non-Microsoft services, including VMware vSphere. It allows you to have a better grasp on monitoring and management of your diverse IT environment. This service further supports the hybrid and multi-cloud vector that data management has seemingly been taking over the past years.
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Alex Samoylenko
  • Alex Samoylenko
  • August 10, 2021

5 New Features of VMware vSphere 7 Update 2 That You May Not Know About

Admittedly, the newly released VMware vSphere 7 Update 2 has brought along a lot of new interesting features. However, while the primary upgrades have been widely discussed, not all improvements have got their fair share of the spotlight, leaving some prominent new additions largely unnoticed.
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Alex Samoylenko
  • Alex Samoylenko
  • January 28, 2021

VMware vSphere: Time to Prepare for an Upgrade!

With new vSphere versions, it’s not just about one-click upgrades. There are various things an admin has to account for in good time. You need to consider the interoperability of other VMware products and other existing infrastructure components, which upgrade path to take, back-in-time upgrade threats, developing the upgrade plan, and necessary post-upgrade procedures.
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Nicolas Prigent
  • Nicolas Prigent
  • January 5, 2021

How to Use Azure REST API with PowerShell

Getting comprehensive information on each and every virtual machine (VM) is a pain. To make things easier, Microsoft introduced Azure Resource Graph. You can now use a simple PowerShell script and receive contextual VM data at scale across your given set of subscriptions. No need to surf through every single one separately anymore.
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Vladan Seget
  • Vladan Seget
  • February 5, 2019

How to Migrate VMware vCenter from Windows to VCSA 6.7 Update 1

Do you have problems with a lack of space when using SQL express or setting up ODBC parameters before installing vCenter? So it’s time for you to think about VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) – a pre-configured virtual appliance running Linux (Project Photon OS). It has been optimized specifically for vCenter services. What about the scale? VCSA supports up to 2000 hosts or 3500 VMs per appliance. Sounds good, right? In addition, VCSA provides enhanced security. Why wait? Take a step into the future!
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Andrea Mauro
  • Andrea Mauro
  • November 6, 2018

VMware vCenter and PSC topologies

VMware vSphere 6 offers all new and new features including a new VMware vCenter management services architecture. vCenter 6.0 can be deployed in embedded and external options and separately as a Platform Services Controller (PSC) and as vCenter. If the Platform Services Controller (PSC) provides common infrastructure services for the data center, then the vCenter Server ensures the remainder of the vCenter Server functionality. But you’ll agree, it would be great to have a common platform that combines both solutions. This option would help reduce the number of VMs per sites without any load balanced dependencies and provide fault tolerance.
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