Agenda of this post is to run through the implementation of a KMS solution – Hytrust KeyControl and use it to enable data at rest encryption for vSAN datastore and VM level encryption as well. To get more clarity on which level of encryption you would need, read VMware official comparison! Before jumping into the … Read more
vSAN has been around for a long time now and its very easy to work with as well. You don’t have to be a storage administrator to manage vSAN clusters in vCenter in my experience. Once in a while after maintenance activity or after hard reboot of the ESXi hosts, we see warning alerts in … Read more
While deploying vROPs 8, you will find there are 2 different types of HA configuration and that’s the scope of this post: High Availability: Continues Availability: To understand vROPs supported Continues Availability (CA), we need to be clear on following terms: CA separates the vROPs cluster into 2 fault domain, stretching across vSphere clusters. These … Read more
This post is born out of a very simple curiosity. My experience with VCPP based cloud provider has been such that we always enabled THIN type disk provisioning. Its obvious that if we disable the THIN Provisioning, all the New VM’s will have THICK provisioned disk but was not sure whether Lazy Zeroed or Eager … Read more
Most of the organizations want to have a control on license cost where host based license is economical vs per OS instance cost but the challenge in such a case is, How to control the VM placement? Due to vSphere DRS load balancing, VM’s will be vmotioned from 1 host to other host for which … Read more
As we all are aware, NSX for vSphere is going end of general support on January 2022 which leads to migration path from NSX-V to NSX-T. Migration of any product is not easy but this is particularly difficult for all as its not even as VMware Cloud Provider have another layer of complicity called VMware … Read more