Showing posts with label vmware. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vmware. Show all posts

14 February 2021

Microsoft Office does not respect "VMware" word. Bug or feature?

I'm tired to correct spelling the "VMware" word after autocorrection (to "Vmware") in some Office apps, e.g. while preparation of PowerPoint presentation regarding virtual environment.


22 December 2019

VMware vCenter Server 6.7 Update 3 can TLS in SMTP (STARTTLS)

Working with vCenter Server for a long time, recently in a first time I faced with the need to use secure SMTP session by TLS. And I was confused when I found that it not supported (in 2019!) - https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2063147
I opened the ticket in VMware support and they said that it works in the latest updates, but the article still not updated.

I tested it on VMware vCenter Server 6.7 Update 3 (14367737) and it really works!

03 August 2019

VMware vSphere: comparison of Paravirtual and LSI SCSI adapters

You may know that VMware vSphere offers several types of SCSI adapters for virtual machines depending on the OS. The main types are "LSI Logic SAS" and "VMware Paravirtual". There are a lot of articles on this topic (e.g. https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2014/02/vscsi-controller-choose-performance.html). But the real comparison of the performance I saw once, but it's a bit outdated (ESXi 5.0 and Windows Server 2008R2).

Therefore, I did my tests (although not on the latest versions of OS) and compare IOPS, Latency and CPU usage. As a load generator used IO meter 1.1.0.