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Romain Serre
  • Romain Serre
  • December 15, 2022

Understand Failover Cluster Quorum

Failover cluster quorum can mean a lot of things. Many factors play in: the type of hypervisor vendor (vSphere, HyperV, KVM, etc.), the number of nodes, set failover configurations, and many more. The issue is critical for data availability, so it demands closer understanding from both the IT department and the management of a company.
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Vladan Seget
  • Vladan Seget
  • December 6, 2022

Why cold migrations of VMs in vSphere 8.0 is over 3 times faster?

VMware introduced a number of enhancements in vSphere 8.0, including updates for vMotion. Most notably, the speed has been improved for both hot and cold migrations. However, VMware claims that cold migration is now x3 times faster than it was before. This is a positive development since previously, migration would take up too many hours.
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Vladan Seget
  • Vladan Seget
  • November 10, 2022

vSphere 8.0 Tips to Create a VMware Golden Image for Your Windows 11 and Use a PVSCSI Controller

Windows 11 2H22 includes several new elements that make its installation into vSphere 8 and then the creation of a VMware Golden Image much easier. Before that, the OS missed some drivers that required more juggling to make things work. Now, it includes the VMware PVSCSI and VMXNET3 drivers and other stuff to fix previous issues.
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Vladan Seget
  • Vladan Seget
  • October 11, 2022

VMware Virtual Hardware 20 details in vSphere 8

vSphere 8 brings an abundance of cool new features. Among them, VMware Virtual Hardware Version 20 is even more efficient: newer CPU cores support, more VM count, ESXi instance on Smart NICs, higher VM density, up to 8 vGPU devices support, aware migration, NUMA nodes exposed in vSphere Client, and many many more!
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Vladan Seget
  • Vladan Seget
  • August 30, 2022

VMware vSphere 8 Announced – The Details

Moving forward with its ecosystem, VMware EXPLORE has just announced the coming of vSphere 8 later this year. As per usual, there are all kinds of changes coming. This time, however, more focus is placed on management and lifecycle simplification and unification. Changes will affect services like VMware Tanzu, ESXi, vCenter Recovery, and others.
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Alex Samoylenko
  • Alex Samoylenko
  • August 2, 2022

VMware Cloud Director Availability 4.4: Replicating the On-Premises Infrastructure to any VMware Cloud

VMware Cloud Director Availability is a Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS) solution that creates a backup infrastructure in a public cloud. Its most recent upgrade has brought a lot of new possibilities to the table.
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Brandon Lee
  • Brandon Lee
  • July 28, 2022

vSphere+ – A New hybrid vSphere offering from VMware

VMware vSphere+ is an Enterprise hybrid subscription service, which provides a blend of on-prem vSphere plus VMware Cloud services through Cloud Gateway. In other words, it’s a combination of your current vSphere environment with SaaS-delivered VMware components from the VMware Cloud offering.
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Vladan Seget
  • Vladan Seget
  • May 26, 2022

Advanced Cross vCenter Server vMotion with different SSO domains now enhanced starting vSphere 7.0 U3c

Cross vCenter Server vMotion has been greatly enhanced in vSphere 7.0 Updates U3c. For one, it’s now been integrated into the vSphere web client, which makes it much easier to access and operate. But, among its new updates, one stands out the most: the ability to execute a clone bulk operation between vCenter servers with different SSO domains.
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Vladan Seget
  • Vladan Seget
  • January 26, 2022

Securing VMware ESXi Hosts

You can’t be too close to comfort whenever cybersecurity is involved. Despite ESXi being pretty secure even after out-of-the-box installation, its security can be tightened more. Certain common, baseline hardware elements can be added and several tweaks to ESXi security itself will make all the difference you didn’t know they could.
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