Category: VMware

VMware, Inc. is an American company that provides cloud and virtualization software and services, and claims to be the first to commercially successfully virtualize the x86 architecture. Founded in 1998, VMware is based in Palo Alto, California. -Wikipedia

VMware vSphere Best Practices

In this post I have created a general-purpose Best Practices guideline for VMware vSphere, including references. I base these Best Practices recommendations on my personal, and VMsources collective experience, in dealing with hundreds (if not thousands, at this point) of unique client environments over the last decade. My intent is to help VMware users of
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Listing individual vSAN disk utilization

Unfortunately, many issues with vSAN require the intervention of VMware Support as the available command references are often lacking. Here is a tidbit to list individual vSAN Disk utilization that I thought might be helpful. BTW. this is in reference to VMware vSAN 6.7 and may or may not work on other versions: Expected output
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VMware vSphere and Time

I’ve been harping about this for years, but a couple of recent customer situations have emphasized the importance of correct time/NTP configuration for all of your vSphere components. In one situation, incorrect time configuration almost completely broke a Nutanix Storage cluster! There was no problem with Nutanix or VMware, but rather networking challenges prevented the
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