Recently I have received some questions about supporting VMware by backup solutions such Veritas NetBackup, EMC Networker etc. so I decided to write a short post to answer. Almost backups solutions use VDDK to protect VMs on VMware. What is VDDK? The Virtual Disk Development Kit (VDDK) is a collection of C/C++ libraries, code samples,… Read More »
As I described in my article about speeding up vMotion, Multi-NIC vMotion provides load balancing the vMotion network traffic over multiple network adapters. It means that one vMotion session is balanced between all available vmknic. In this post I will show how to configure this feature with vSphere Standard Switch (vSS) or vSphere Distributed Switch… Read More »
In this post I will show a basic configuration of Cisco Nexus 1000v after deployment presented here. We have deployed two Nexus 1000v VSM machines. Let's configure it! The following configuration is based on some requirements: L3 control via mgmt0 interface Five VLANs: 22 (system vlan, L3 capability), 150, 300, 450, 777 Port-Profile with LACP… Read More »