VMFS 6 (Virtual Machine File system 6) is released with vSphere 6.5. VMFS 6 released with vSphere 6.5 contains a lot of new features as compared to earlier version of VMFS (VMFS 5). I will help you to understand the difference between VMFS 5 & VMFS 6 in this article. VMware vSphere 6.5 is released […]
Storage is one of the most critical resources in vSphere environment. There are some important parameters during design of storage that should be taken into consideration such as block size, disk types, required I/O, bandwidth etc. The mentioned parameters generally are used to design a storage but unfortunately, there is one important thing that can be […]
VMware vCenter Converter VMware, a leader in the development of software for creating and managing virtual machines, provides free tools that are very useful to help the users to manage virtual machines in their work environment. One of these is precisely VMware vCenter Converter, a free software mainly useful for converting physical machines into virtual machines, […]
The VMFS UNMAP operations inform the storage array that the blocks that it still has allocated as being in use are now able to be unmapped and the space reclaimed. With VMware vSphere 6.0 the unmap command was run manually or via a VMware CRON job, where you can either run the command manually or […]
Data Link Layer ARP/RARP Address Resolution Protocol/Reverse Address DCAP Data Link Switching Client Access Protocol Network Layer DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol DVMRP Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol ICMP/ICMPv6 Internet Control Message Protocol IGMP Internet Group Management Protocol IP Internet Protocol version 4 IPv6 Internet Protocol version 6 MARS Multicast Address Resolution Server PIM Protocol […]
OSI model consists of the 7 layers and all layers define specific work around in the network. Lets talk about all the layers in detail. The layers are Layer 1 : Physical Layer Layer 2: Data Link Layer Layer 3: Network Layer Layer 4 : Transport Layer Layer 5: Session Layer Layer 6 : Presentation […]
Multi-hypervisor environments are becoming far more common, and every once in a while, it becomes necessary to move a virtual machine from one platform to another. There ways to perform such a conversion manually, but it is a messy process. However, 5Nine offers a free virtual machine conversion wizard that you can use to convert […]
Since Windows Server 2012, the converged networking is supported by Microsoft. This concept enables to share an Ethernet adapter for several network traffics. Before that, it was recommended to dedicate a network adapter per network traffic (backup, cluster and so on). So thanks to the converged networking, we can use a single Ethernet adapter (or […]
This topic aims to explain the Quorum configuration in a Failover Clustering. As part of my job, I work with Hyper-V Clusters where the Quorum is not well configured and so my customers have not the expected behavior when an outage occurs. I work especially on Hyper-V clusters but the following topic applies to most […]
When you implement ESXi cluster, you need also a shared storage to store the virtual machine files. It can be a NAS, a SAN or vSAN. When using NAS or SAN, you can connect vSphere by using Fibre Channel (FC), FC over Ethernet (FCoE) or iSCSI. In this topic, I’d like to share with you how […]
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