vSAN Erasure Coding – RAID 5 and RAID 6

First when you hear the term “Erasure Coding”, confused? , Let’s clarify this. what is “Erasure Coding” , Erasure Coding is a general term that refers to *any* scheme of encoding and partitioning data into fragments in a way that allows you to recover the original data even if some fragments are missing. Any such […]

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vSAN Deduplication and Compression

Deduplication and compression are the two great space efficiency features on vSAN. With help of these techniques, you will be able to reduce the overall storage consumption on Virtual SAN. As we all know the concept of the duplication since it is been in use from long time by multiple storage and backup  vendors, so […]

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How to Obtain Free Version Of vSphere (ESXi) 6.7

VMware vSphere 6.7 has been announced by VMware recently and there are many enhancement and new features are available with this release. Question is how we can obtain a free version of vSphere 6.7 for our non-production or testing environment. As earlier how we used to get free license for older versions same method we have the […]

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Whats New With vSphere 6.5 Update 2

VMware vSphere 6.7 has been announced by VMware recently and there are many enhancement and new features are available with this release.And now VMware released vSphere 6.5 Update 2 with some features of vSphere 6.7 . vCenter Server 6.5 Update 2 A Windows vCenter Server that has custom HTTP & HTTPS ports are supported during migration to […]

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How to Install 32 / 64 bit Operating System on Nested vSphere 6.7

VMware vSphere 6.7 has been announced by VMware recently and there are many enhancement and new features are available with this release.Most of the VMware engineers and admins will do their tests on Nested virtual environment , As we ll know VMware supports nested virtualization . With vSphere 6.7 also it supports , In this post i […]

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ESXCLI Commands in vSphere 6.7

VMware vSphere 6.7 has been announced by VMware recently and there are many enhancement and new features are available with this release.With this release vSphere CLI  also having enhancements and i was trying to under stand  what all new enhancement in my  6.7 Lab , ven though i tried with my lab i got reference from one […]

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VMware vCenter 6.7 Upgrade from Windows vCenter 6.5

VMware vSphere 6.7 has been announced by VMware recently and there are many enhancement and new features are available with this release.In this post I am sharing details  about upgrade of  Windows based vCenter Server 6.5 with embedded PSC to 6.7 version . Current vCenter Configuration Operating System – Windows 2012 R2 CPU and Core      […]

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