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Installing vCenter HA
The vCenter High Availability architecture uses a three-node cluster to provide availability against multiple types of hardware and software failures. A vCenter HA cluster consists of one Active node that serves client requests, one Passive node to take...

vCenter services use SSL to communicate securely with each other and with ESXi. SSL communications ensure data confidentiality and integrity. Data is protected and cannot be modified in transit without detection.
vCenter Server services such as the vSphere Web Client also use certificates for initial authentication to vCenter Single Sign-On. vCenter Single Sign-On provisions each set of services (solution user) with a SAML token that the solution user can authenticate...

vSAN Stretched Cluster networking
A vSAN Stretched Cluster is a specific configuration implemented in environments where disaster/downtime avoidance is a key requirement. Setting up a stretched cluster can be daunting. More in terms of the networking side than anything else. This blog...

What is Transparent Page Sharing?
When multiple virtual machines are running, some of them may have identical sets of memory content. This presents opportunities for sharing memory across virtual machines (as well as sharing within a single virtual machine). For example, several virtual...