A serious situation is developing for some customers running vSphere 6.5 and newer where the Security Token Service (STS) certificate is expiring after its two year lifespan and causing problems for authentication on vCenter Server. This post is intended to help vSphere Admins identify & repair the problem proactively. When the STS certificate expires users Read more...
We’ve reviewed and changed the lay-out for ESXi system storage partitions on its boot device. This is done to be more flexible, and to support other VMware, and 3rd party solutions. Prior to vSphere 7, the ESXi system storage lay-out had several limitations. The partition sizes were fixed and the partition numbers were static, limiting Read more...
In this blog post I’m going to dive into what makes up a “vSphere Pod”. If you read my previous blog on the vSphere Pod Service, I touched on the different components that make up the service. One of those components was the vSphere Pod itself. Let’s dive in! What is a vSphere Pod? It’s Read more...
With vSphere 7, we released the greatly improved Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) logic. We received numerous requests from customers to provide more information about the VM DRS Score. This blog post details the new DRS algorithm, with a focus on the VM DRS Score. DRS works to ensure that all workloads in a cluster are Read more...
The latest release of VMware Cloud on Dell EMC adds a higher performance VxRail host configuration, a new full-height data center rack to support up to 16 hosts, and easier workload migration with VMware HCX. Read more...
If you’re running VMware vSphere and using Microsoft Active Directory (AD) for authentication you’ve likely been party to the confusion around the LDAP Channel Binding & Signing changes that were proposed by Microsoft, first as a change to the shipping defaults, and now as a recommended hardening step. We at VMware support hardening IT systems, Read more...
Readers of the vSphere 7.0 release notes have noticed that, in the “Product Support Notices” section, Integrated Windows Authentication is listed as deprecated. Naturally, there are quite a few questions about this, especially in the wake of all the changes Microsoft has been suggesting to Active Directory. Let’s try to answer some of these! What Read more...
The new virtual watchdog timer (vWDT) is a new virtual device introduced in vSphere 7. It enables developers and administrators to have a standard way to know whether the guest operating system (OS) and applications, running inside a virtual machine, have crashed. It is an important function for clustered applications to gain high availability. In Read more...
(By Michael West, Technical Product Manager, VMware) vSphere 7 with Kubernetes enables operations teams to deliver both infrastructure and application services as part of the core platform. The Network service provides automation of software defined networking to both the Kubernetes clusters embedded in vSphere and Tanzu Kubernetes clusters deployed through the Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Service Read more...
Get the most out of VMware Cloud on Dell EMC - enable unique administrator logins and simplify workload migration and deployment with Hybrid Linked Mode (HLM) Read more...
