Comparing Types of Storage – VMware

The following table compares networked storage technologies that vSphere supports. Networked Storage that ESXi Supports Technology Protocols Transfers Interface Fibre Channel FC/SCSI Block access of data/LUN FC HBA Fibre Channel over Ethernet FCoE/SCSI Block access of data/LUN Converged Network Adapter (hardware FCoE) NIC with FCoE support (software FCoE) iSCSI IP/SCSI Block access of data/LUN iSCSI HBA or […]

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Storage Network Technologies

Data has become the most valuable asset both tangibly and intangibly for everyone .Mainly how to effectively store, access, protect and manage critical data is a new challenge facing IT departments. A Storage Area Network (SAN) applies a networking model to storage in the data center. The SANs operate behind the servers to provide a […]

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HPE 3PAR StoreServ Block Storage Concepts and Terminology

The HPE 3PAR StoreServ array is comprised of the following logical data layers • Physical disks (PDs) • Chunklets • Logical disks (LDs) • Common provisioning groups (CPGs) • Virtual volumes (VVs) The relationship between system data layers is illustrated in Figure 1. Each layer is created from elements of the layer above. Chunklets are drawn […]

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Download URLs for VMware vSphere Client

Download URLs for VMware vSphere Client This article provides vSphere Client download URLs. Note: The vSphere Client is no longer available starting with vSphere 6.5 Download URLs for vSphere Client Version File Name Download URLs VMware vSphere Client 6.0 VMware-viclient-all-6.0.0-2502222.exe   VMware vSphere Client 6.0 Update 1 VMware-viclient-all-6.0.0-3016447.exe   VMware vSphere Client 6.0 Update 2 […]

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Difference between VMware ESX and ESXi

Difference between VMware ESX and ESXi VMware ESX  ESX (Elastic Sky X) is the VMware’s enterprise server virtualization platform. In ESX, VMkernel is the virtualization kernel which is managed by a console operating system which is also called as Service console. Which is linux based and its main purpose is it to provide a Management […]

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vSphere Management Assistant – VMA

vSphere Management Assistant – VMA The vSphere Management Assistant (vMA) allows administrators and developers to run scripts and agents to manage ESXi hosts and vCenter Server systems. vMA is a virtual machine that includes prepackaged software, a logging component, and an authentication component that supports non-interactive login Download vSphere Management Assistant Release Notes vSphere Management […]

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vCenter Converter

vCenter Converter  – Download  VMware vCenter Converter transforms  your Windows- and Linux-based physical machines and third-party image formats to VMware virtual machines.also other virtual machines to VMware virtual machines. VMware vCenter Converter converts local and remote physical machines into virtual machines without any downtime. VMware Converter standalone has Centralized management console allows you to queue up […]

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