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Reading Time: 5 minutesThe VMware ESXi partitions layout on the system disk has remained almost the same for several years. VMware ESXi 6.x partitions layout was the same from previous 5.x versions and there ware only some exceptions with bigger disks (with two different diagnostic partitions. Starting with ESXi 7.0 the partions layout is now totally changed.
Reading Time: 2 minutesVMware PowerCLI is a suite of PowerShell modules to manage VMware products and services. VMware PowerCLI includes over 700 cmdlets to easily manage your infrastructure on a global scale. One year and half after PowerCLI 11.0.0, VMware has released the new PowerCLI 12.0 to allign PowerCLI with the new vSphere 7.0 release.
Reading Time: 4 minutesOne important concept of virtual networking is that the virtual network adapter (vNIC) speed it’s just a “soft” limit used to provide a common model comparable with the physical world. The real limit depends by several aspects, included the hpyervisor, the CPU speed, the available RAM and (for external comunication) also by the physical NIC speed. For this reason, the Intel e1000 and e1000e vNIC can reach a real bandwidth bigger than the canonical 1 Gpbs link speed. But what about the vmxnet3 vNIC that can advertise also the 10 Gpbs link speed. What is […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesQualche giorno fa, VMware ha aggiornato la sua licenza per socket che diventerà effettiva a partire dal 2 Aprile 2020 (data curiosa, che, a parte evitare la possibilità di essere presa come un pesce di aprile, magari nasconde la data di rilascio della prossima versione di vSphere?). Ci sono cambiamenti significativi e si passa da una semplice licenza per socket (ossia l’intero processore fisico) ad una licenza più articolata che conta fino a 32 core per socket… con più core sarà necessario acquistare più licenze VMware.
Reading Time: 2 minutesA usual way to backup the VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) is to manage as a common VM and use a backup solution to backup (and restore) the entire VM. But it’s approach does not always work and cannot guarantee a restore in some cases, for example in the case of a database corruption.
Reading Time: 3 minutesVMware vSAN has become a reliable solution with a good and usable HTML5 GUI. But sometimes you have have some issues in object health with the result of some inaccessible vSAN objects.
Reading Time: 4 minutesTrusted platform module (TPM) is a hardware, designed to securely store information such as crendential or measurements. TPM 2.0 is supported on all 13 th generation and 14 th generation Dell EMC PowerEdge servers including the latest AMD servers. Note that is not enabled by default. TPM 2.0 is enabled and supported with VMware vSphere 6.7 releases. ESXi 6.7 introduced the “Host Attestation” feature using which the validation of boot process can be reported to vCenter dashboard.
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