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Persistent Memory, using Non-Volatile Memory (NVDIMM), is a great capability that combines the speed of global system memory with persistent storage capabilities. PMEM is byte-addressable and sits on the memory…

Host Upgrade Time Challenges During a vSphere ESXi host upgrade, a large amount of time is spent live-migrating virtual machines (VMs) away from the host, that is being upgraded, to…

New in vSphere 7 Update 2 is that vMotion is able to fully benefit from high-speed bandwidth NICs for even faster live migrations by auto-tuning vMotion streams. Manual tuning is…

The Advanced Cross vCenter Server vMotion (XVM) capability was one of the most popular VMware Flings. Flings were new engineering features or capabilities not productized just yet. A lot of…

This article is dedicated to gaining more knowledge on what to do when troubleshooting vMotion if a live migration is not successful. What are the typical reasons for failed migrations?…

vSphere Auto Deploy is a great feature that uses PXE boot infrastructure together with vSphere Host Profiles to provision and customize ESXi hosts. Depending on the ESXi host configuration, enforced by…