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Top 26 Tools for VMware Administrators

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Virtualization is one of the popular technologies that are implemented in many IT environments. to work on virtualization technologies such as VMware vSphere, Citrix Xen or Microsoft Hyper-v, there are lots of application and tools that could make you possible to manager yoru virtualized infrastructure. in this article, we are providing many tools for administrators that is challenging to keep track of them all. most of them will be very useful for engineers to manage effectively their infrastructure. you could read the article.

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1. As Built Report

As Built Report is an open source configuration document framework which generates and builds documents in XML, Text, HTML, and MS Word formats using Windows PowerShell and PScribo.

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What’s New in vSphere 6.0 Fault Tolerance

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What’s New in vSphere 6.0 Fault Tolerance

  • FT support upto 4 vCPUs and 64 GB RAM
  • Fast Check-Pointing, a new Scalable technology is introduced to keep primary and secondary in Sync by replacing “Record-Replay”
  • vSphere 6.0, Supports vMotion of both Primary and Secondary Virtual Machine
  • With vSphere 6.0, You will be able to backup your virtual machines. FT supports for vStorage APIs for Data Protection (VADP) and it also supports all leading VADP solutions in Market like symantec, EMC, HP ,etc.
  • With vSphere 6.0, FT Supports all Virtual Disk Type like EZT, Thick or Thin Provisioned disks. It supports only Eager Zeroed Thick with vSphere 5.5 and earlier versions
  • Snapshot of FT configured Virtual Machines are supported with vSphere 6.0
  • New version of FT keeps the Separate copies of VM files like .VMX, .VMDk files to protect primary VM from both Host and Storage failures. You are allowed to keep both Primary and Secondary VM files on different datastore

vSphere 5.5 new feutures

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Last night , I was looking for an article that i saw an article on virtualization .  I read this article . it will be useful for you and other friends

I ‘m going to run in this version soon. And the complete results will be announced . for the full list please take a look at VMware’s document.

1. vCenter Server appliance gets bigger

For a while now VMware has offered a Linux based appliance version of the Windows based, full blown vCenter Server, but in the past the appliance’s database pretty much limited its use to the SMB space. With 5.5 the vCenter Server Appliance can now handle up to 500 hosts and 5000 Virtual Machines. For my environment I’ll still hold out until it has the capability to at least host the application portion of Update Manager (as opposed to the patch repository), but I can definitely see its use in environments with multiple vCenter servers.   Continue reading “vSphere 5.5 new feutures” →

Optimizing vSphere 5 Performance

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A few days ago I read an article that was interesting.May be faced with reduced performance When you run the virtualization platform.

Here I give you some tips in this regard:

Optimizing vSphere Performance: Why and How

1. Use capacity analysis tools
2. Right-size virtual machines
3. Replace your hardware
4. Utilize Storage I/O Control (SIOC) and Storage DRS (SDRS)
5. Reduce VM snapshots
6. Consider SSD
7. Utilize Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)
8. Run the latest version of vSphere
9. Use the latest VM virtual hardware version
10. Install VMware Tools in all virtual machines

  

vSphere 5.1 What’s New

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VMware announced a new version of VMware vSphere 5.1 at VMworld USA. I created a nice summup of all new features to give you nive clean overview

if you are going to upgrade vsphere 5.1 please read this links and notic changes them

 

vSphere 5.1 What’s New