VMWare

  • SRM advanced parameters which can be used for troubleshooting

    VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM) has a default setting of 300 seconds for the elapsed time for SRA commands (such as discoverDevices, discoverArrays). If…

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  • ATS (Atomic Test and Set)

    ATS-Only Mechanism For storage devices that support T10 standard-based VAAI specifications, VMFS provides ATS locking, also called hardware-assisted locking. The ATS algorithm supports discrete locking…

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  • Boot from SAN

    Configure SAN Components and Storage System : Before you set up your ESXi host to boot from a SAN LUN, configure SAN components and a…

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  • Connecting to a vPostgres Database

    Connecting to a vPostgres Database With pgAdmin:   The pgAdmin client tool is not necessary for connecting to vPostgres databases. The Data Director UI includes everything…

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  • Back Up and Restore the Embedded vCenter Server Appliance Database

    Back up the embedded vCenter Server Appliance database to protect the data stored in your vPostgres database. Prerequisite: Create the folder in which you want…

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  • vSAN encryption

    vSAN can perform data at rest encryption. Data is encrypted after all other processing, such as deduplication, is performed. Data at rest encryption protects data on…

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  • Owner Abdication in VSAN

    When the virtual machines attempt a snapshot consolidation there are underlying vSAN components which undergo a change of node-ownership within the cluster. When these events…

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  • What is BufferCache in Esxi

    VMware ESXi and ESX provide advanced configuration options that affect the behavior of various components. This article provides steps to review and set new advanced…

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