My Virtual Ramblings
Indicate Interest for the refreshed vSphere Beta!
It’s here! The VMware vSphere team invites you to indicate your interest to join the latest vSphere Beta program. This is a unique opportunity to get your voice in and shape the direction of vSphere.
VMware NSX – Getting Started Hands-on Lab
Here’s a great way to get your feet wet and start testing and using NSX.
Register for VMware NSX 60-Day Hands-on Lab Trial
Put your skills to the test – take a VMware Challenge Lab
For those of you that unfamiliar with the Challenge lab series, we have worked on these labs alongside our Global Support Services team. These are the people that provide awesome support for our products when you need it. We gathered a list of potential pitfalls that they receive calls on most often and built scenarios around them in a lab. It is then up to you to resolve that issue, almost a we break it, you fix it lab!
I recently had an issue with some Dell FX2 Blade Software iSCSI Adapters that were not persistent on a reboot. This meant, every time the host was rebooted we had to go in and manually recreate the iSCSI adapter so the hosts could see storage. Obviously, that is not a solution. The blades are running the latest version of ESXi 6.0 and all drivers on the blades are up to date as well, with no affect on the behavior. After a bit of research I discovered parameters for the bnx2fc adapters. One named bnx2fc_autodiscovery, which is the parameter to control auto FCoE discovery during system boot is what I was after. By default this is set to disabled which is why the adapters are not showing up after the host is rebooted.
The command to see these parameters is:
esxcli system module parameters list -m bnx2fc
This will show you what they are currently set to, and next to bnx2fc_autodiscovery you will see it is blank, meaning it’s disabled. In order to enable it, you run the following:
vSphere 6.5 Update 1 – Under the Hood
I’m excited to announce that vSphere 6.5 Update 1 is now available and it has some great enhancements. While we have seen 5 patch releases so far, 6.5 Update 1 rolls all of those updates together as well as includes some long awaited functionality. Without further ado, let’s take a look under the hood of this highly anticipated release!
I personally got a printed version at VMworld, but also grabbed the free e-book as well. Nothing like being able to have the book available for me to read at a moments notice when I’m not home.
In June of this year, Niels and I published the vSphere 6.5 Host Resources Deep Dive, and the community was buzzing. Twitter exploded, and many community members provided rave reviews. This excitement caught Rubriks attention, and they decided to support the community by giving away 2000 free copies of the printed version at VMworld. The […] The post Free vSphere 6.5 Host Resources Deep Dive E-Book appeared first on frankdenneman.nl .
New vSAN migration guide available!
Due to the number and variety of customers interested in, and indeed, deploying vSAN – questions come up all the time to do with migrations from existing infrastructures to a new one running on VMware vSAN, some of these are trivial, while others take a little planning. To make your migration journey to vSAN more The post New vSAN migration guide available! appeared first on Virtual Blocks .
VMworld 2017: AppDefense Aims to Flip the Current Security Model on Its Head
The company’s new tool uses the power of virtualization to protect apps and data.
VMworld 2017 parties & gatherings!
VMworld is famous for its wide array of opportunities to connect with fellow attendees. From our VMworld Customer Appreciation Party — to Sponsor Events — to unofficial meet-ups and parties organized by the VMworld community, you’ll find plenty of options for spending time with friends or making new ones.
Be sure to check back often as the list gets updated. VMworld parties are a great chance to network with colleagues and talk shop.
vSphere 6.5 Update 1 is out, here’s why you want to upgrade | Itzikr’s Blog on WordPress.com
Hi VMware have just released the first major update to vSphere 6.5, normally, I don’t blog on these but this update is so big and it fixes some really annoying bugs I saw using the GA version of vSphere 6.5..thankfully, we worked hard with their support to overcome some of the issues I highlighted…
