For those who are not aware, vSphere Distributed Switch (or abbreviated as vDS) is included as part of the vSphere Enterprise Plus edition license. What exactly is a vDS? In some sense, the vSphere Distributed Switch is pretty similar to a vSphere Standard Switch (vSS). It provides the connectivity between your virtual machines and …
Introduction to vSAN Storage Policies
As mentioned in my previous vSAN post here, I talked about how important Storage Policies are when it comes to vSAN. Storage Policy-based Management, or SPBM for short is the secret sauce that binds everything together in vSAN today. With this, you will not need to go through the very manual and inefficient way of …
About vCenter Licensing
Lately, I have been having a lot of discussions that revolves around VMware's vCenter Server. Side Note: For those people out there who are not too familiar with vCenter, vCenter is VMware's unified management tool that helps virtualization admins to manage and monitor their vSphere environments centrally. A lot of customers are confused about the …
