Month: February 2015

vSphere 6.0 Install Pt. 3: Certificate Management

Introduction As long as I can recall certificate management in vSphere has been difficult, and for many customers, something they completely ignore. I'm surprised how many customer designs (even those done by VCDXs) I've seen where they feel it's too difficult to deploy vSphere certificates so they accept the risk...

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Nutanix NOS 1-Click Upgrade

One of the never ending tasks in IT is keeping up with software builds and firmware updates. These are usually a somewhat painful process, may require downtime, and can often get pushed to the back burner of IT life. At Nutanix we recognized that pain point, and starting in NOS...

vSphere 6.0 Install Pt. 6: Install Windows PSC

Now that we've gotten some background and best practices behind us, now it's time to start the actual software installation. As previously mentioned, in all but the smallest environments it's recommended to have a dedicated Platform Services Controller (PSC), rather than an embedded one. So first up here will be...

vSphere 6.0 Install Pt. 2: Platform Services Controller

Introduction In this second installment of the vSphere 6.0 installation series we cover the new service called the Platform Services Controller. This new service has consumed the SSO service, and added a number of new features. vCenter functionality is now divided into two primary roles, the management node and the...

VVol Technical Overview

Another great session at PEX 2015 by Rawlinson Rivera. Traditional storage architectures can't keep up: Specialized and costly HW - Not commodity, low utilization, overprovisioning Device-centric silos - Static classes of service, rigid provisioning, lack of granular control Complex processes - Lack of automation, time consuming processes, slow reaction to...

What’s new in vSphere 6.0

Straight from PEX 2015 in San Francisco, here's a recap of the February 2 announcement for what's new in vSphere 6.0 Platform Enhancements: 128 vCPUs per VM 4TB of RAM per VM 64 hosts per cluster 12TB of system RAM 480 vCPUs per host Hot-add RAM is now vNUMA aware...

vSphere 6.0 Install Pt. 1: Introduction

At VMworld 2014 VMware revealed bits and pieces of what's new in vSphere 6.0. A lot of information was still under NDA and not disclosed, so attendees didn't get the full picture of the new virtualization platform. But now that it's announced, all can now be revealed. Unlike the last...