Tag Archives: vSphere 5

Best Practices for all Occasions (incl vSphere 5)

Posted on September 7, 2011 by josh@sostechblog.com

VMware has published several “Best Practices” guides for vSphere5 so I thought I’d collect many of them (see below) as well as add my own summary/best practice guide. This has lots of VMware-specific entries but the essence can apply to … Continue reading →

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vSphere5: My favorite feature

Posted on August 25, 2011 by josh@sostechblog.com

Get-AlarmDefinition | New-AlarmAction -Email -To ‘jandrews@inflexionllc.com’ -CC @(‘test1@inflexionllc.com’, ‘test2@inflexionllc.com.com’) -Body ‘Test body’ -Subject ‘Test subject’ Drop that line into a PowerCLI windows and poof all alarms will be updated to send an email when they go off (change warning (yellow) … Continue reading →

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vSphere5: Licensing (pt2) : The death of overcommitment

Posted on July 15, 2011 by josh@sostechblog.com

There seems to be quite a bit of uproar and confusion surrounding the new VMware license structure. here here here here here One issue seems to be over the memory cap – Essential/ESS+ and Standard all have a 24GB vRAM … Continue reading →

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vSphere 5 : Licensing

Posted on July 13, 2011 by josh@sostechblog.com

vSphere 5 introduces a whole new licensing method (and gets rid of “Advanced”). Previously you paid per CPU and were limited to how many cores your CPUs could have (6-cores except for Advanced and Enterprise Plus) and how much RAM … Continue reading →

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vSphere 5

Posted on July 13, 2011 by josh@sostechblog.com

…is here! Check out the new Storage Appliance (shared, clustered local storage) built-in support for SSD profile-driven storage DRS-for-storage (where vSphere will move virtual machine files around based on storage performance) The “Advanced” licensing is no more VMs get up … Continue reading →

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vSphere 5 Rumors and books

Posted on May 20, 2011 by josh@sostechblog.com

Update:vSphere 5 is released VMware and Pearson have launched a new to publish “official” VMware books Most notably: Storage Design and Implementation in VMware vSphere 5.x by Mostafa Khalil • Technology Deep Dive • Fall 2011 Automating Day-to-Day Administration of … Continue reading →

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