Category Archives: vSphere 6.5

What’s New in Performance: vSphere 6.5

Posted on June 19, 2017 by Ryan Birk

Underlying each release of VMware vSphere are many performance and scalability improvements. The VMware vSphere 6.5 platform continues to provide industry-leading performance and features to ensure the successful virtualization and management of your entire software-defined datacenter. This whitepaper is broken … Continue reading →

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vSAN 6.6 download links are publicly available.

Posted on April 18, 2017 by Ryan Birk

Today VMware has released vSAN 6.6 to the public! 6.6 is a big step forward. While the base architecture of vSAN stays the same, it becomes more and more efficient. With the price of flash going down, it’s an even more … Continue reading →

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vCenter Server HA Deployment/Design Considerations

Posted on March 16, 2017 by Ryan Birk

Check out fellow Indy VMUGer, Adam Eckerle and his great 13 minute vCenter HA discussion on vSphere 6.5. I love the whiteboard Adam!

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ESXi 6.5 Home Lab / Whitebox Options

Posted on December 5, 2016 by Ryan Birk

I’ve had several people ask if it’s possible to put together a low cost option to build up a VMware ESXi 6.5 white box. I’ve been a long time promoter of the Intel NUCs and the small form factor Shuttle … Continue reading →

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New Hands On Lab: What’s New: vSphere 6.5 (HOL-1710-SDC-6)

Posted on November 1, 2016 by Ryan Birk

HOL-1710-SDC-6 – What’s New: vSphere 6.5 Cost: FREE! All of the HOL’s at VMware are free, but time out after a certain time frame. In this lab, you will explore some of the new feature of vSphere 6.5 including encrypted … Continue reading →

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