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Reading Time: 6 minutesWith the announce of the new vSphere 6.7 Update 1 you should expect also a new version of VMware vSAN (the bits are included in vSphere) and that’s it: vSAN 6.7 Update 1 (strange that has not been used the name vSAN 6.8). VMware vSAN has grown very fast in those years, not only in the number of versions (quite impressive) but also in the customers’ adoption, with more than 14000 organizations using vSAN and with a 110% growth year-over-year.
Reading Time: 9 minutesWith all those Meltdown, Spectre, Foreshadow, … bugs that affect several CPU, you may be interested in what can be the overall performance impact for all the related patches. There isn’t a simple answer, because it really varies by the processor vendor (Intel CPUs are more affected than AMD CPUs), probably also by CPU the family, for sure by the type of workloads (CPU bound workloads will be more affected, but it depends also on which instructions are used), … but also the type of environment.
Reading Time: 3 minutesVMware NSX Data Center for vSphere is the new name of NSX-v and NSX-t for the on-prem case, and version 6 is actually referring to the specific edition for VMware vSphere that use the vCenter Server UI has the main UI also for all the NSX part. There are other NSX products, but VMware has just announced a new minor version for the vSphere related product: NSX Data Center for vSphere v6.4.2 it’s out. The release notes describe all the new features and improvement of this release:
Reading Time: 7 minutesThe L1 Terminal Fault (aka Foreshadow) bug is another speculative execution side channel attack that affects Intel Core processors and Intel Xeon processors only. For VMware vSphere, there are some patches available as described in this document: VMSA-2018-0020. All patches have been released on August, 14th 2018.
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuest’anno sarà ricordato, informaticamente parlando, come dei bug ai microprocessori. Si è iniziato subito ai primi di gennaio con gli annunci dei bug Spectre e Metldown ma poi si è continutato tutto l’anno. Prima per i goffi tentativi di sistemare i bug citati, ma poi anche per l’incombedere di nuove varianti dei bug. Si pensi che si è arrivati a Spectre V4 e V5! Ma è di pochi giorni l’annuncio di un nuovo bug. Di nuovo a livello hardware, di nuovo su processori presenti nel mercato da diversi anni, inclusi ultimi modelli (che ovviamente sono […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn the last Veeam Community Forums Digest newsletter there is an interesting note about possible performance issues in VMware vSphere backup based on hot-add transport mode. VMware has confirmed that the increased Hot Add times experienced by some Veeam customers who have installed Veeam Backup & Replication Update 3a and the reason is the latest Virtual Disk Development Kit (VDDK) 6.5 version used in U3a to support also vSphere 6.5 Update 2.
Reading Time: 4 minutesUno dei modi più utilizzati per gestire il backup della VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) era quello di usare una qualunque soluzione di backup a livello di VM. Soluzione semplice, ma non sempre efficace, visto che in caso di corruzione del filesystem o del database embedded, i risultati di un restore a livello di VM potrebbero essere disastrosi, lasciando una VCSA non funzionante. A partire da vSphere 6.5, la VCSA 6.5 ha aggiunto la possibilità di gestire un backup nativo, tramite l’interfaccia di gestione vCenter Server Appliance Management Interface (VAMI). Ma era comunque un’operazione manuale […]
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