VMDK (Virtual Machine Disk) has been designed to mimic the operation of physical disk. Virtual disks are stored as one or more VMDK files on the host computer or remote storage device, and appear to the guest operating system as standard disk drives.
VMware supports three provisioning types:
Thin Provisioned
Thick Provisioned
Eager-zeroed Thick Provisioned
vSAN is hyper-converged solution which provided by VMware to reduce implementation and maintenance costs of virtualization solutions. Currently, many companies and organizations using vSAN and SAN together to delivering storage space for services.
The Hardware Sensor Status Reported in the vSphere Web Client Do you have any HPE ProLiant Gen10 on your virtual environment? Did you upgrade their iLO firmware to 1.30? If you have the servers with upgraded iLO firmware, you may face with the below status on Hardware status tab in vSphere Web Client: VMware vSphere 6.0 VMware vSphere 6.5 VMware vSphere 6.7 Good news, HPE engineers are working on this issue and it has no impact on production. It can be safely ignored but I recommend that install the new firmware after release.
Persistent memory (PMEM) is a new technology that has the characteristics of memory but retains data through power cycles. PMEM bridges the gap between DRAM and flash storage.
What’s New in VMware NSX Data Center for vSphere 6.4.2 New version of NSX has been introduced by VMware and NSX for vSphere is now known as NSX Data Center for vSphere. VMware NSX Data Center for vSphere 6.4.2 adds usability and serviceability enhancements, and addresses a number of specific bugs. Networking and Edge Services Multicast Support: Adds ability to configure L3 IPv4 multicast on Distributed Logical Router and Edge Service Gateway through support of IGMPv2 and PIM Sparse Mode. Default Limit of MAC identifiers: Increases from 2048 to 4096 Hardware VTEP: Added multi PTEP cluster capability to facilitate environments with multiple vCenters Security Services Context-Aware Firewall: Additional Layer 7 Application Context Support (EPIC, MSSQL, BLAST AppIDs) Firewall Rule Hit Count: Monitor rule usage and easily identify unused rules for clean-up Firewall Section Locking: Enables multiple security administrators to work concurrently on the firewall NSX Application Rule Manager: Improved scale to 100 vNICs per session, further simplifying the process of creating security groups and whitelisting firewall rules for existing applications. NSX User Interface VMware NSX – Functionality Updates for vSphere Client (HTML): The following VMware NSX features are now available through the vSphere Client: TraceFlow, User Domains, Audit Logs, Events & Tasks. Operations and Troubleshooting Authentication & Authorization: Introduces 2 new roles (Network...
HPE MSL (2024, 4048, 8096) has three different users for managing and monitoring tape library: User and Administrator password can be changed via LCD Panel but Service user has predefined password. The password is as follows: 42311324
VMware has detect vulnerability on some products against E1000 NIC. The issue may allow a guest to execute code on the host. If you have any running virtual machine on VMware Workstation 14.x and Fusion 10.x, you must stop them and apply patch to the mentioned products before running any other virtual machine.
