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VMware vRealize Operations 6.0 -- A major update of the product formerly known as VMware vCenter Operations Management. The new vRealize Operation 6.0 has a re-platformed architecture that can deliver up to 8x greater scalability with unified management across vSphere and other domains. It also features operational analytics, smart alerts and problem detection capabilities that help identify complex issues and then recommend remediation or run automated tasks.  VMware vRealize Code Stream – This is an all new member of the vRealize Suite that is designed to enable DevOps teams to deliver frequent and reliable software releases. vRealize Code Stream is a continuous delivery solution that helps IT better support agile development. It will provide a single dashboard to provide end-to-end visibility of the entire release process across Dev and Ops teams.  VMware vRealize Automation 6.2 -- Formerly VMware vCloud Automation Center, the new vRealize Automation provides infr...

  By default, VMware offers Extra Small, Small, Medium, and Large configurations during installation. You can size the environment according to the existing infrastructure to be monitored. After the vRealize Operations Manager (formerly known as vCenter Operations Manager) instance outgrows the existing size, you must expand the cluster to add nodes of the same size. Characteristics/Node Size Extra Small Small Medium Large vCPU 2 4 8 16 Memory (GB) 8 16 32 48 Single-Node Maximum Objects 100 2,000 6,000 10,000 Single-Node Maximum Collected Metrics (*) 50,000 1,000,000 3,000,000 5,000,000 Multi-Node Maximum Objects Per Node (**) NA 2,000 4,000 8,000 Multi-Node Maximum Collected Metrics Per Node (**) NA 1,000,000 2,000,000 4,000,000 Maximum Objects for 8-Node Maximu...

Procedure 1 From the vSphere Client Home page, select  Customization Specifications Manager . 2 Click  New . 3 In the Guest Customization wizard, select Windows from the  Target Virtual Machine OS  menu. 4 Under Customization Specification Information, enter a name for the specification and an optional description and click  Next . 5 Type the virtual machine owner’s name and organization and click  Next . 6 Enter the guest operating system's computer name and click  Next . The operating system uses this name to identify itself on the network. On Linux systems, it is called the host name. Option Action Enter a name a Type a name. The name can contain alphanumeric characters and the hyphen (-) character. It cannot contain periods (.) or blank spaces and cannot be made up of d...

In order to properly design the storage , we must first able to calculate the expected Input/Output Operations per Second (IOPS) requirements. The IOPS calculations must take the following into account: Parameter Description Values Disk Speed The speed that the disk spins has a direct impact on how fast the disk can read the correct sector. 15,000 RPM: 150 Random IOPS 10,000 RPM: 110 Random IOPS 5,400 RPM: 50 Random IOPS Read/Write IOPS are broken down into reads and writes. Certain processes are read intensive while others require more writes. The ratio between reads and writes impacts of the overall IOPS. It has been shown that most desktop implementations result in the follow read/write ratios: Reads: 20% Writes: 80% | RAID Level The RAID configuration impacts how many actual write IOPS are available due to the different types of redundancy in place. The write penalty reduces the overall IOPS for each disk spindle. RAID 0: No RAID Penalty RAID 1: Penalty of 2 ...

1) BOOMEBRANG from VMware 2) VMware Guest console from VMware 3) VEEAM Monitor 4) RVTOOLS 5) VMTURBO 6) POWERGUI

VMware vSphere 5.1 has included data protection feature free of cost. Let us take glance of the product with some of the features 1) It's come as virtual appliance with 4 vCPU & 4 GB RAM 2) Only three options for configuration of usable storage is available i.e is half TB, 1 TB & 2 TB 3) If you assign space once you cannot change it, so be careful while planning 4) it can also restore indiviual files/folder/sub folders 5) it can configured for sending mails of the reports of the backups and restores 6) Backup jobs can be scheduled daily, weekly and monthly