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Is the HTML5-based vSphere Client finally mature?

11 August 2018
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Note that this post becomes obsolete with the vSphere 6.7 Update 1 release where the client it’s finally complete.

Some months ago I’ve written a post (Is the HTML5-based vSphere Client ready to replace the vSphere Web Client?) on the limitation of the new vSphere Client, but this was before the vSphere 6.7 and vSphere 6.5U2 releases.

VMware vSphere, during its history and the different versions, has got several types of Graphical User Interface (GUI) client.

One of the most used (not the first, but the standard one since Virtual Infrastructure 3.0) was the vSphere Client for Windows. But on May 2016 VMware has announced that the Legacy C# Client (aka thick client, desktop client, or vSphere Client) will no longer be available with the vSphere 6.5 release, replaced by web-based clients.

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Security threats in a virtual environment

10 August 2018
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This is an article realized for StarWind blog and focused on the possible security threats in a virtual environment. See also the original post.

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Microfocus VM Explorer with vSphere 6.7 support

9 August 2018
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VM Explorer is another backup (and replication) tool with native support for virtualized platforms (vSphere and Hyper-V) with a good success in the SMB segment.

Initially was build by a Swiss company (Trilead), acquired later by HP(E) and recently acquired by Microfocus. Lot of changes in the name, but not in the substance and with a good development and release cycles.

Now Microfocus has released a new VM Explorer release (v7.1) compatible with the latest version of VMware vSphere 6.7.

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Virtual Instruments Cloud Migration Readiness (CMR)

8 August 2018
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As written in previous posts, Virtual Instruments provides a full stack monitoring for physical, virtual, and cloud computing environments.

And this kind of analysis can help to better understood your workloads and the complexity to move them to a public cloud.

The “Cloud”, through cloud migration, promises IT organizations unprecedented value in the form of cost savings, faster innovation, superior scalability and most importantly – business agility. For many organizations, it is at the core of their IT digital transformation strategy. It is a disruptive force that requires application workload behavior knowledge, careful cloud migration planning and collaboration from knowledgeable, trusted advisors.

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NVMe workload modeling with Virtual Instruments and SANBlaze

8 August 2018
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 Virtual Instruments has announced a new partnership with SANBlaze Technologies, Inc., a pioneer in SAN Emulation and validation technologies and a leading provider of storage solutions for embedded systems. The partnership is centered on bringing NVMe workload modeling and analytics to both enterprise IT and technology vendors through a joint reselling agreement and includes integrations between the WorkloadWisdom and SANBlaze VirtuaLUN products.

SANBlaze embedded computing products and high-performance NVMe-over-Fibre Channel emulation systems are deployed in the test and development labs of most major storage hardware and software vendors worldwide. WorkloadWisdom is deployed broadly across both storage technology vendors as well as Global 1000 enterprise IT.

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Slow speed in network transport mode backup

7 August 2018
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VMware vSphere provides a different way to copy the VM data during a backup operation: those modes are called transport modes. There are at least three major transport mode: network mode (or NBD), hot-add mode (or VM proxy mode), SAN mode (of storage offload mode).

Most of the backup products can use those different transport modes depending on the configured infrastructure and the requirements.

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Tuning Veeam Backup for vSAN datastore

6 August 2018
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If you are using Veeam Backup & Replication with a VMware vSAN datastore you are probably following the Veeam KB 2273 (Configuration for VMware VSAN). But this guide is only limit to recommend the hot-add transport mode.

So you are going to create several Veeam proxies because Veeam Backup & Replication chooses the most appropriate backup proxy to reduce the backup traffic on the VSAN cluster network. Maybe also one per host.

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