This is second part of VMware vSphere 7 upgrade series which about hardware compatibility.
After the upgrade path is prepared and you are ready to pay for new hardware or upgrade current hardware, you have to choose compatible hardware, so you must know that why hardware compatibility is so important?
This post is first part of vSphere 7 Upgrade Series which about vSphere upgrade path to vSphere 7.
VMware vSphere 7 introduces lot of new features but there are some features which removed or deprecated in VMware vSphere 7. Some of them were important features for us but VMware has defined some policies to achieved new and updated solutions in server/desktop/OS Level virtualization.
Seems, there is an issue on HPE Blade Servers when a specific adapter is installed on server. If there is any server of the below models in your virtual environment that you should consider to this post: HPE ProLiant BL460c Gen10 Server Blade HPE ProLiant BL460c Gen9 Server Blade HPE ProLiant BL660c Gen9 Server HPE servers running VMware ESXi 6.0, VMware ESXi 6.5 or VMware ESXi 6.7 and configured with an HPE FlexFabric 20Gb 2-port 650FLB Adapter with driver version 12.0.1211.0 (or prior), a “wake NOT set” message is logged in the Vmkernel logs. Then after 20 to 30 days...
VMware has release patch for ESXi 6.5, critical issues are fixed on that. There is one security issue which addressed in this patch for ESXi 6.5. Fixed Issues ESXi contains a denial-of-service vulnerability in the shader functionality. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the identifier CVE-2019-5536 to this issue. See VMSA-2019-0019 for further information. PR 2374268: Upgrading NSX-T fails with an error that VSIP filters are not cleared PR 2417371: ESXi 6.5 Update 3 hosts take long to complete tasks such as exit maintenance mode Further Reading Latest VMware Patch #4 Latest VMware ESXi Patche #3 Latest VMware ESXi Patch #2 Latest VMware...
Kubewise is a simple multi-platform desktop client for Kubernetes. In the same way the kubectl command requires only a valid kubeconfig file to run commands against a Kubernetes cluster, Kubewise requires you just to configure one or more valid kubeconfig files to interact with the corresponding Kubernetes clusters. Main features: Support for multiple kubeconfig files. UI-driven interaction with the most frequently used Kubernetes entities. One-click terminal with the proper KUBECONFIG env variable set. Generation of custom kubeconfig files for a given namespace. Highlight sustaniability and security-related data. Requirements Kubewise is a desktop application built with HTML, JavaScript, CSS and Node.js, and it...
VMware’s products needs to communicate together or communicate with other components of services via network, administrators must know that components will communicate via which ports and protocols. VMware has provided a tool to find port and protocol of popular VMware’s products which called ” VMware Ports and Protocols”. Currently, you can find ports and protocols which the below products used: vSphere vSAN NSX for vSphere vRealize Network Insight vRealize Operations Manager vRealize Automation Note: The recent versions of the mentioned products and not out of support products. External Links VMware Ports and Protocols
Server Hardware / Virtualization
by Davoud Teimouri · Published 16/08/2019 · Last modified 21/08/2019
Optimizing server configuration is always one of biggest challenges for virtual environments administrators. The administrators always trying to provide best performance by changing configurations on hypervisor, virtual machines or other components or virtual infrastructure. There are best practices which published by server vendors to achieve best performance on their server platform. Server hardware is one most important components in every environment, server provides main power and resource: Computing Resources. Processor and memory and other server’s component made to work almost like as human brain. Some Important Things! Human brain needs consumes about 20 percent of the body’s energy. Consume more...
Server Hardware / Virtualization
by Davoud Teimouri · Published 09/08/2019 · Last modified 21/08/2019
Data Center design is changing year by year, before virtualization all servers was physical and data centers were full of devices and cables. Virtualization helped to make data centers smaller and consolidate different workloads in same hardware. Hardware technologies are also helping to achieve this goal. Network Partitioning (NPAR) is one of hardware technologies which helping to reduce cabling, switch devices and use all I/O capacity in data centers. What’s Network Partitioning (NPAR)? NPAR is an operating system and switch agnostic technology that allows customers to reduce the number of I/O adapters required to support different application workloads. Traditional best...
Proxmox Server Solutions GmbH, developer of the open-source virtualization management platform Proxmox VE, today released its major version Proxmox VE 6.0. The comprehensive solution, designed to deploy an open-source software-defined data center (SDDC), is based on Debian 10.0 Buster. It includes updates to the latest versions of the leading open-source technologies for virtual environments like a 5.0 Linux kernel (based on Ubuntu 19.04 “Disco Dingo”), QEMU 4.0.0, LXC 3.1.0, Ceph 14.2 (Nautilus), ZFS 0.8.1, and Corosync 3.0.2. Proxmox VE 6.0 delivers several new major features, enhancements, and bug fixes.
