Removing large .dmp files
I have noticed that the disk usage of the C: drive on my vCenter server has increased considerably recently, despite the databases being stored on a different drive. Running TreeSize revealed large dump files in the following location: C:\Windows\System32\config\systemprofile\AppData\Local\CrashDumps These…
What is the difference between High Availability and Fault Tolerance?
The table below describes the main differences between High Availability (HA) and Fault Tolerance (FT) in VMware. The key difference is that FT eliminates downtime whereas HA does not. High Availability Fault Tolerance Monitors heartbeat information provided by the…
Different types of vMotion in vSphere 6.0
vMotion allows you to migrate a running virtual machine from one host to another without downtime. There are 3 different types of vMotion in vSphere 6.0: Cross vSwitch vMotion – seamlessly migrate a virtual machine across different virtual switches Cross…
vSphere 6.0 configuration maximums
If you are looking for some information around the configuration maximums in vSphere 6.0 then this page may help. A single cluster can scale to support: 64 hosts 8000 virtual machines A single host can support: 480 CPUs 12TB RAM 2048 virtual…