Category: Virtualization

VMware vSAN Requirements and Best Practices 0

Data Center / Data Storage / Virtualization

VMware vSAN Requirements and Best Practices: A Comprehensive Guide

VMware vSAN is a powerful, software-defined storage solution that makes storage management easier by pooling local disks from ESXi hosts into a single storage platform. Its close integration with vSphere makes it a popular choice for organisations looking to modernise their infrastructure. However, implementing vSAN effectively necessitates a thorough understanding of its requirements and best practices.

This guide discusses VMware vSAN’s requirements, fault domain configurations, disk group design, host recommendations, and comparisons to block storage solutions such as Dell PowerStore and Unity. It also covers database deployment on vSAN and offers actionable tips to ensure a successful implementation.

Oracle External Files 0

Database / Virtualization

What’s Best Solution for Storing Oracle Database External Files in VMware vSphere?

Database administrators and IT architects face particular difficulties when it comes to storing vast volumes of unstructured data, including documents, videos, and photos. Although the Binary Large Object (BLOB) data type in Oracle Database provides a strong mechanism for handling such data within tables, scaling and managing BLOBs in a high-demand setting frequently necessitates creative solutions. Storing BLOBs outside of database tables in vSphere-powered environments can greatly improve manageability, scalability, and performance.

VMware Data Services Manager Architecture 0

Cloud Native / Database / Reviews / Virtualization

Unlocking Database Management with VMware Data Services Manager: Features, Benefits, and Comparisons

Data is the foundation of any organization in the digitally first world of today. Effective database management is essential, but it presents difficulties with scalability, maintenance, security, and cross-environment compatibility. A potent tool for streamlining and simplifying database administration in contemporary infrastructures is VMware Data Services Manager (DSM).

In-depth discussions of VMware Data Services Manager’s features supported solutions, deployment strategies, advantages, and use cases are provided in this blog. To help you make wise decisions regarding database operations in your company, we’ll also contrast it with conventional database management techniques and other options.

vTopology in vSphere 0

Reviews / Virtualization

Understanding vTopology in vSphere 8: A Deep Dive into NUMA and vNUMA Management

With its state-of-the-art innovations, VMware vSphere continues to lead the virtualization ecosystem, and vSphere 8 brings major improvements to vTopology, a framework designed to optimize NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Access) and vNUMA (Virtual Non-Uniform Memory Access) configurations for modern workloads. Effectively managing NUMA and vNUMA is essential in virtualized environments to maximize performance for CPU- and memory-intensive applications. In this extensive blog post, we’ll examine the development of vTopology in vSphere 8, compare it to previous iterations, and offer practical insights into optimizing NUMA and vNUMA configurations. Let’s also highlight important features, best practices, and real-world scenarios to help you better understand.

Oracle Database Smart Flash Cache 0

Data Center / Database / Server Virtualization / Virtualization

A Comprehensive Guide to Oracle Database Smart Flash Cache: Benefits, Challenges, and Configurations in vSphere, Virtualization, and Physical Environments

In today’s data-driven world, databases are essential for managing the enormous amounts of information generated by businesses. Oracle Database is a leading relational database management system (RDBMS) widely used in various industries. As data grows, so do the demands for performance, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness. This is where Oracle Database Smart Flash Cache comes into play.

vDS 0

Data Center / Server Virtualization / Virtualization

Static Binding vs Ephemeral Binding: Understanding the Network Bindings in VMware vSphere Distributed Switch

Networking is a key component of enterprise virtualization, and as data centers grow, it is imperative to manage network resources effectively and flexibly. VMware’s vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS) is a potent tool that allows for centralized management of networking configuration across ESXi hosts, and one of its key features is its management of network port bindings. There are two main types of bindings that are available with VDS: static and ephemeral. Virtualization administrators that want to optimize their environments must grasp the distinctions, benefits, and trade-offs between static and ephemeral port binding.

vMotion Application Notification 0

Data Center / Reviews / Server Virtualization / Virtualization

A Deep Dive into VMware vSphere vMotion Application Notification: Keeping Applications in the Loop

Ensuring application availability and performance during infrastructure maintenance is essential in the ever changing virtualization landscape. VMware’s flagship product, vMotion, allows virtual machines (VMs) to be moved between physical hosts without interruption. How about the programmes that are executing in such virtual machines? Can they be told that the relocation is coming and given enough time to be ready?

Now for vMotion Application Notification, a revolutionary feature that debuted with vSphere 8. By giving apps the ability to actively participate in the vMotion process, this feature improves resiliency and reduces migration interruptions. Let’s investigate the advantages, settings, and best practices of this cutting-edge technology in more detail.

QUIC 0

Data Center / Reviews / Virtualization

QUIC: Deep Dive into the Revolutionary Protocol Redefining Networking

The internet, which hums with information that connects, informs, and entertains us, is the vitality of the twenty-first century. However, a complicated web of protocols, akin to gears operating behind the curtain, lurks under the surface of the relatively simple click-and-stream experience. Although one of these protocols, the ancient TCP, has been a good fit for us for many years, its shortcomings are becoming more noticeable as our online needs grow. Presenting QUIC, a groundbreaking new protocol that aims to usher in a new age of speed and security for the internet.

VMware Fault Tolerance vs Clustering 0

Data Center / Virtualization

Should You Use VMware Fault Tolerance All the Time?

VMware Fault Tolerance (VMware FT) is one of vSphere clustering features that can protect services with zero downtime but not useful for any services or any virtual machine.

This post is not about VMware Fault Tolerance capabilities and I’ll reviewing use cases. At end of this post, you’ll find why this feature is not suitable for each service or environment. Also find that when you should use it and when you should not use that.

VM ID Improved Storage Usage and Performance 0

Reviews / Data Storage / Virtualization

Virtual Machine Identification (VM-ID) in Fibre Channel: A Comprehensive Overview

Virtual Machine Identification (VMID or VM-ID) is a technology for tracking virtual machine I/O between virtual machine and SAN target. VM-ID can be used by hypervisor and FC switch to trace generated I/O by specific VM. As result, we can optimize whole SAN area for VI workload and non-VI workloads would be achieved.

Kata Containers 2

Cloud Native Architecture / Reviews / Server Virtualization

Kata Containers, Container with VM Isolation

Kata Containers offers method of container deployment with more security. Security is one biggest challenge about containers and containers has lower level of security compared to virtual machines. Because virtual machines are isolated from each other, but containers can’t provide isolation same as virtual machines.