- vCenter Server Install - This series provides to instructions on installing various vCenter 6.0 components.
- vCenter Server Upgrades - Seamlessly upgrade from from vCenter Server and vCenter Server 5.x versions to version 6.0 with these walkthroughs.
- vSphere Data Protection - With this set of walkthroughs, learn how to perform vital activities that vSphere Data Protection 6.0 enables you to carry out.
- vSphere Replication - With these walkthroughs, learn how configure replication and recover a virtual machine.
Tuesday, February 24. 2015
vSphere 6 Feature Walkthroughs
Monday, February 2. 2015
vSphere 6 - Network I/O Control Version 3
- Reserve bandwidth to guarantee service levels
- Applied at vNIC level
- Enables bandwidth to be guaranteed at the virtual network interface on a virtual machine
- Reservation set on the vNIC in the virtual machine properties
- Applied at a Distributed Port Group
- Enables bandwidth to be guaranteed to a specific VMware Distributed Switch port group
- Reservation set on the VDS port group
- Enables multi-tenancy on one VDS by guaranteeing bandwidth usage from one tenant wonβt impact another
vSphere 6 - VMware Fault Tolerance
VMware vSphere 6 Fault Tolerance can accommodate symmetric multiprocessor (SMP) virtual machines with up to four vCPUs.
Primary VMs and Secondary VMs always maintain independent copies, which can be placed on different datastores to increase redundancy.
Eager-zeroed thick .vmdk disk files are not required because FT supports all disk file types, including thick and thin. Each VM has it's own vmx config file, vmdk files (new) allowed to be on different datastores (new).
vSphere 6 - VM Component Protection (VMCP)
- Terminate VM after user-configured timeout only if there is enough capacity; restart on a healthy host
- Reset a VM if APD clears after APD timeout
- Terminate VM immediately; restart on a healthy host
- Detailed reporting of conditions and actions taken
- Impacted VMs, host(s) and datastore(s)
vSphere 6 - vCenter Server 6.0 β Platform Services Controller
vSphere 6.0 introduces vCenter Server with an external Platform Services Controller and vCenter Server with an embedded Platform Services Controller.
vCenter Server and the Platform Services Controller are deployed on a single virtual machine or physical host. vCenter Server with an embedded Platform Services Controller is suitable for smaller environments with eight or less product instances.
To provide the common services, such as vCenter Single Sign-On, across multiple products, you can connect multiple vCenter Server instances with embedded Platform Services Controllers. You can do this by replicating the vCenter Single Sign-On data from one of the embedded Platform Services Controllers to the other Platform Services Controllers.
This way, infrastructure data for each product is replicated to all of the Platform Services Controllers and each individual Platform Services Controller contains a copy of the data for all of the Platform Services Controllers.