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Comment on Horizon Workspace and View Persona: They’re dating, but not married. by Nick

Nick — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 13:55:34 +0000

I asked this question at PEX whether Workspace would integrate properly with Persona. I didn’t get a straight answer. Good info Dave.

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Comment on 32-Node VMFS Clusters and Sparse Virtual Disks for View? Not just yet. by William Lam

William Lam — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 00:01:46 +0000

Though the new SE Sparse Disk format is meant to be used with View, you can however create your own SE Sparse disks, take a look at the following blog articles which goes over the details:

http://www.virtuallyghetto.com/2012/09/how-to-create-se-sparse-space-efficient.html
http://www.virtuallyghetto.com/2012/09/creating-se-sparse-linked-clones-using.html
http://www.virtuallyghetto.com/2012/09/how-to-initiate-wipe-shrink-operation.html

Comment on Designing VDI Tips Issue #1: Infrastructure by Marc

Marc — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 19:39:31 +0000

Hi, great start. Looking forward to next article. I am gonna follow your serie. Keep up to good work. Cheers.

Comment on Designing VDI Tips Issue #1: Infrastructure by Veelbelovend begin: VDI design tips « EarlyBert

Veelbelovend begin: VDI design tips « EarlyBert — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 17:39:48 +0000

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Comment on Throttle vSphere Replication with Network I/O Control by Antone (thehyperadvisor)

Antone (thehyperadvisor) — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:55:45 +0000

This is good to know. Sucks that it requires the more expensive license of vSphere though. VMware needs to provide a true SRM solution to controlling replication bandwidth usage/throttling.

Comment on Protecting the 76th VM with Site Recovery Manager 5 by Hoosier Storage Guy

Hoosier Storage Guy — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 14:45:43 +0000

Great write-up Dave. Glad to see they are making strides in more affordable SRM for the SMB. That being said, I still think they need to get away from requiring a minimum of vSphere Standard just to use SRM. For the shop with 25 VM’s who would like to use SRM, the price jump between Essentials Plus and vSphere Standard is a major hurdle.

Comment on Release: VMware View 5.0 by jeff

jeff — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 05:56:25 +0000

I think you are mistaken. View 5 can run on 4.1 ESX hosts and VCenter 4.1(I’m doing it now). Upgrade to View 5 from 4.6 was a breeze. Took me less than 20 minutes. Not sure where you read the upgrade requirements

Comment on Release: VMware View 5.0 by Nathan Neulinger

Nathan Neulinger — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 23:16:07 +0000

Too bad they completely screw the customer with View 5 – basically forcing you to upgrade multiple components simultaneously. Would it REALLY have been that difficult to maintain backwards compatability in vcenter with whatever functionality view uses? I get it not supporting new features – but to not work at all? And no support for upgrading the ESX hosts either since View 5 will not work with 4.1 hosts – only 4.1 vcenter. So you’re basically forced to upgrade all of your environment simultaneously and to move to a new vcenter at the same time, since you’re not going to easily be able to upgrade in place without breaking your existing environment.

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Comment on Site Recovery Manager 5: The BIG Feature List by Welcome to vSphere-land! » vSphere 5 Links

Welcome to vSphere-land! » vSphere 5 Links — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 03:35:45 +0000

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Comment on VMware vSphere 5: The BIG feature list by VMware vSphere 5: The BIG feature list | nvizor

VMware vSphere 5: The BIG feature list | nvizor — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 13:32:47 +0000

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Quelqus liens concernant vSphere 5 | Auxilia.info — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 02:32:25 +0000

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Comment on How to determine your vRAM footprint in vCenter by Welcome to vSphere-land! » vSphere 5 Links

Welcome to vSphere-land! » vSphere 5 Links — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 05:55:25 +0000

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Comment on How to determine your vRAM footprint in vCenter by Mark Crouch

Mark Crouch — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 09:30:48 +0000

Thanks for this tip Dave – just a small caveat I thought worth a mention….. If you copy/paste from this page, make sure to retype the quotation marks as Excel doesn’t like the ones from the HTML :-) Had me baffled for more than a couple of minutes!!!

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Thu, 21 Jul 2011 07:26:42 +0000

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Comment on VMware vSphere 5: The BIG feature list by A. Mikkelsen

A. Mikkelsen — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 06:53:33 +0000

Great list,
Just what i needed to get at quick overview.

Thanks again.

Comment on How to determine your vRAM footprint in vCenter by Eric Gray

Eric Gray — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 16:08:27 +0000

Dave,

Thanks for sharing this straightforward technique.

Eric

Comment on VMware vSphere 5: The BIG feature list by Rich

Rich — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 09:25:16 +0000

@Nikolaus – ESXi does not have a service console. The service console in ESX Classic was based on Linux. No service console = no linux = no iptables. Now there is only the hypervizor, which has a much smaller footprint and no requirement for iptables.

Comment on VMware Virtual Storage Appliance (VSA) v1.0 – The Facts & The Features by Steven Santini

Steven Santini — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 22:56:19 +0000

This is’nt really any thing new, there are a fair amount of companies who are certified and tested as VSA providers for 4.1 and who are currently going through certification for 5. FalconStor and StorMagic (The company I represent) are both examples of this.

Vsphere VSA also only allows you to utilize 25% of Host Storage, that is a big limitation in comparison to third parties.

I’m glad to see that they are doing their own VSA but I don’t believe there are enough benefits with their VSA which would out weigh a 3rd Provider.

Comment on VMware Virtual Storage Appliance (VSA) v1.0 – The Facts & The Features by Derek

Derek — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 23:24:06 +0000

I thought vCenter was limited to managing ONE VSA instance? If so, that does not make it a branch office solution if you have more than one branch office. The HP P4000 VSA is a lot more full features, can be bought for less, supports VAAI and iSCSI. Again, VMware VSA could be OK for an essentials kit for a SMB. Anything bigger and you need a third party VSA.

Comment on VMware Virtual Storage Appliance (VSA) v1.0 – The Facts & The Features by VMAdmin

VMAdmin — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 19:08:12 +0000

Shared storage is cheaper than the VMware licenses for the high-end features unless you must have an EMC or other big-vendor solution. I built an OPenfiler-based high-availability, block-level replicating SAN on the cheap (<$5000), but if I want to upgrade my VMware licenses to take advantage of svMotion, etc it will set me back about $30,000. My SAN works with anything, not just vSphere 5.

Comment on VMware vSphere 5: The BIG feature list by VMware vSphere 5: The BIG feature list « Techpot’s Blog

VMware vSphere 5: The BIG feature list « Techpot’s Blog — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 18:38:49 +0000

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Comment on VMware Virtual Storage Appliance (VSA) v1.0 – The Facts & The Features by Welcome to vSphere-land! » vSphere 5 Links

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