vSAN 6.6.1 introduces below new features: Performance Diagnostics VMware vSphere Update Manager (VUM) integration Device Serviceability enhancement Improved vCenter and unicast behaviour for cluster membership Performance Diagnostics Another new feature is the performance diagnostics tool. The new tool is designed to examine the results of a performance benchmark like HCI bench, Proactive Tests that have […]

• vSAN

We discussed about update manger in the previous post . VMware Update Manager provides centralized patch and version management for ESXi hosts, virtual machines, and virtual appliances. Update Manager can be used to upgrade and patch ESXi hosts, install and update third-party software on hosts, upgrade virtual machine hardware, VMware Tools, and virtual appliances. In […]

• vSphere 6.5

Update Manager enables centralized, automated patch and version management for VMware vSphere and offers support for VMware ESXi hosts, virtual machines, and virtual appliances. With Update Manager, you can perform the following tasks: Upgrade and patch ESXi hosts. Install and update third-party software on hosts. Upgrade virtual machine hardware, VMware Tools, and virtual appliances. Update Manager requires network connectivity with VMware vCenter Server. Each installation […]

• VMware Virtualization

VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN) is a hypervisor-converged storage solution for your vSphere environment.  In this post I will explain about how to perform vSAN hybrid configuration. vSAN Hybrid Architecture Hybrid Configuration –  In hybrid configuration, one flash device and one or more magnetic drives are configured as a disk group. A disk group can have […]

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For vSphere 5.X   device we have to perform steps from CLI  to change the device type from HDD to SSD . From vSphere 6 onwards there is nice feature which allows you to tag (mark) a devise as Flash device from vSphere web client .In this post we are sharing how can we perform this  […]

• vSphere

SAN zoning is a method of creating  logical groups over the physical configuration of the fabric and  allowing communication / access  of Fibre Channel devices by grouping  them .  And zoning manages  communication of hosts and storage nodes ,  zone contains WWN name of these devices . A World Wide Name, or WWN, is a 64-bit […]

• Storage

This is a list of useful Brocade switch commands that will help you for administration or management operation. These commands are useful for for Zoning, Show, Port, Time/Date, License, Banner, Password, SNMP, User Config, Firmware, and Miscellaneous. Zoning Commands alicreate “Name”, “domain,port#” Used to create an alias alicreate “Name”,”portname1; portname2″ To create multiple ports under […]

• Storage