Some days ago, VMware released vSphere 6.0 U1. Today vSphere 5.5 U3 was released with the following features: vCenter Server database support: vCenter Server 5.5 U3 now supports the following external databases: Oracle 12c R1 P2 (12.1.0.2) Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 2 Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 3 Always check Database… Read More »
Yesterday I received an email with the following question: how to calculate VMware HA Admission Control for unbalanced vSphere cluster? Just for a quick reminder, Admission Control is used to ensure that sufficient resources are available in a cluster to provide failover protection and to ensure that virtual machine resource reservations are respected. I already… Read More »
Yesterday VMware released new version of products such as vSphere 6.0 U1, Site Recovery Manager (SRM) 6.1 or VSAN 6.1. As it's time to upgrade my lab I decided to patch my vCenter Appliance 6.0. VCSA 6.0 U1 offers again the Virtual Appliance Management Interface (VAMI) that is really useful and now totally rewritten - in… Read More »