VMware VSAN: A Deep Dive

With VMware’s vision of having a Software-Defined-Data-Center, the compute, networking and storage resources need to be virtualized and handled in a better way. When talking about Software-Defined Storage, all those heterogeneous storage resources are abstracted into logical pools, consumed and...

VMware VSAN: I/O

Let’s see how I/O is performed on a distributed object in VSAN. Let’s look at the write operations first. When the Guest OS performs a write to a virtual SCSI disk, that write goes to the local VSAN module on...

VMware Virtual Machine Hardware version 10

When VMware released VM hardware version 10 for vSphere 5.5, it didn’t take into account the number of users using the free version of the hypervisor. These folks who upgraded their VM hardware to version 10, found themselves unable to...

vCenter 5.5. Client Integration Plug-in doesn’t work in Chrome? Here’s the workaround..

So it looks like the plugin doesn’t work on Chrome and IE11 browsers. Installing it multiple times continues to show that it is not installed. However, there is a workaround for Chrome which is as follows:Download the plugin.Close the browser.Run...

My VCAP-DCA 5 Experience with VDCA550 Exam

I completed my VCAP DCA last week and like all bloggers need to write about my experience with the exam :) I took the 5.5 version of the exam and there were some differences in the exam blueprint.For studying, I...