One year ago, Broadcom killed the Free vSphere Hypervisor, but on April, wi...
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteBroadcom has completed its acquisition of VMware, VMware will operate as VMware by Broadcom. You can read more about this combination on VMware’s website. There is also an interesting video: VMware Acquisition Close: Q & A with Hock Tan, President and CEO, Broadcom (25 min 34 sec)
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAccording with Product Lifecycle Matrix and KB 89305, VMware has officially declared, vSphere 6.5.x and vSphere 6.7.x will be End of General Support by October 15th 2022. To maintain your full level of Support and Subscription Services, VMware recommends upgrading to vSphere 7.
Reading Time: 4 minutesA VM snapshot preserves the state and data of the VM at a specific point in time (the snapshot creation time). The data includes all the files that make up the VM. This includes disks, memory (if the VM is powered on and you enable also memory snapshot), and other devices, such as virtual network interface cards. A VM provides several operations for creating and managing snapshots and snapshot chains. These operations let you create snapshots, revert to any snapshot in the chain, and remove snapshots. You can create extensive snapshot trees.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIf you are using Veeam Backup & Replication (but also other backup solution) you can perform both backup and replication with the same tool. But with latest version of vSphere you can probably notice a huge difference between backup and replication speed if you are using NBD transport mode.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Connection Server is the main component of a VMware Horizon infrastructure. But usually for a redoundancy and performance prospective more than one are suggested and they replicates their data using the Microsoft Active Directory Lightweight Service (AD LDS) and connections the servers must be managed by and external load balancer.
Reading Time: 2 minutesEasy question, but much more complicated answer. If you go to https://vmware.com/downloads you can found a strange combo of versions:
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe file-level backup feature introduced in vCSA 6.5 is very powerfull and schedulable (starting with vCSA 6.7) because sometimes the image-level backup may not provide the proper integrity if you have corrupted files inside the VM. Also with vSphere 7.0 is possible monitoring the status of the file-level backup directly from vSphere Client and this is quite usefull to have this information direct visible from the UI:
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