Category: VMware

vSphere 6.0 RC – Still Under NDA?

vSphere 6.0 RC was announced a few hours ago.  As a beta tester of vSphere 6.0 am I still under NDA? Rhetorical question, answer: Yes.

UPDATE: A few minutes after I posted this, VMware removed the post, but you can see it here.  There is also an article at The Register.  By the way, “RC” stands for “Release Candidate”.

vSphere6.0 RC

During VMworld there were a lot of public references to the features of vSphere 6.0 in the keynote & breakout sessions.  Fast forward to the “RC” release today and VMware are providing additional feature information as part of the announcement.

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vCD Installation Guide – Part 1 – Preparation

As part of my push to prepare for the VCAP-CID/CIA exams, I have been spending a lot of time with vCloud Director 5.1 in my lab.  I know it is not vCAC with NSX, but if you want to pass the VCAPs for Cloud, you will have to work with this configuration.

This is the first post of a five part series describing the steps to install and configure the various components of vCloud Director 5.1:

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VSAN Quick-Config Guide

Five months ago I built my home lab with VSAN and performance tested it (with the default policy).  It turns out I was missing a key part of the configuration: the “Service Provider URLs”.  Here is the complete VMware Virtual SAN configuration process for a home lab.

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