Over the past month or so I've been running a number of performance tests on VxRail and vSAN solutions. HCIBench is a brilliant tool to help end-users understand the type of performance that they can achieve with their vSAN solution. It's essentially an automation wrapper around the popular Vdbench tool. Vdbench is an utility specifically created to help … Continue reading HCIBench 1.6.2 – Testing vSAN performance
Tag: VMware Labs
vCenter Server Migration Tool: vSphere 6.0 Update 2m
Last year I blogged about the vCS to vCSA converter tool that VMware Labs released as a fling and how I had used it to pretty much convert all my lab vCenters (all bar one) to vCSAs..... since then I've been following the releases and a few months ago I noticed the Fling was deprecated (ie … Continue reading vCenter Server Migration Tool: vSphere 6.0 Update 2m
VMware Labs Fling – Instant Clone via PowerCLI Extensions
https://labs.vmware.com/flings/powercli-extensions With the launch of vSphere 6.0, the Instant Clone feature was released that allows you to do rapid in-memory cloning of running VMs. If you're not aware of the feature, it has been known as VM Fork or Project Fargo (prior to the release of vSphere 6)..... Duncan Epping has a great write up … Continue reading VMware Labs Fling – Instant Clone via PowerCLI Extensions
New VMware Fling – HTML5 Embedded Host Client for ESXi
The clever bods at VMware labs have just released another new Fling... and this one's a damn awesome Fling! https://labs.vmware.com/flings/esxi-embedded-host-client What it allows you to do (after installing the VIB) is to open up a browser to your ESXi host and gain access to a simple client allowing you to manage your freshly installed ESXi … Continue reading New VMware Fling – HTML5 Embedded Host Client for ESXi
The Virtual Unknown 