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Part 5 – Architecting vSphere Networks: A Scoop From my vForum Prezo!

This is the fifth part of the series of articles I have been writing about “Architecting vSphere Environments”. For those who have not read the other parts, I would highly recommend you go through them to understand the context of this entire series and to pick up key learning’s which I have gained during designContinue reading “Part 5 – Architecting vSphere Networks: A Scoop From my vForum Prezo!”

A Dive in the Past – A Peep in the Future!

First things First, a Happy New Year to all my buddies in the Virtualization World. I wish that each one of you have a Successful, Healthier & a Wealthier 2014. I wanted to kick off 2014 with this article to have a quick look at the year gone by and also peep in the futureContinue reading “A Dive in the Past – A Peep in the Future!”

Part 4 – Architecting vSphere – Remember the Design Dimensions & Process – From My vForum Prezo!

This article is the Part 4 of the Series “Architecting vSphere Environments”. Here are the other 3 parts which I would highly recommend to read:- Part 1 – Architecting vSphere Clusters – A scoop from my vForum Prezo! Part 2 – Architecting vCenter Single Sign On (SSO) – A Scoop from my vForum Prezo! PartContinue reading “Part 4 – Architecting vSphere – Remember the Design Dimensions & Process – From My vForum Prezo!”

Part 3 – Architecting Storage for vSphere Environments – A Scoop from my vForum Prezo!

In continuation to the series on “Architecting vSphere Environments“, this post talks about Architecting the storage for a vSphere Infrastructure. For those who have not read the previous parts of this series, I would highly recommend you go through them in order to get a complete picture on the considerations which matter the most while designingContinue reading “Part 3 – Architecting Storage for vSphere Environments – A Scoop from my vForum Prezo!”

Using Secondary Management Network for vSphere Replication!!

In the past I have written a lot about using vSphere Replication and the best practices around it. This time around I wanted to share an experience of implementation of SRM and vSphere Replication in a brownfield Virtual Infrastructure. As we all know that vSphere Replication uses the management interface for the ESXi servers toContinue reading “Using Secondary Management Network for vSphere Replication!!”

Part 2 – Architecting vCenter Single Sign On (SSO) – A Scoop from my vForum Prezo

This article is the second part of the series of articles on – “Architecting vSphere Environments – Everything you wanted to know!” Although, each part of this series can be used as an individual tool to learn about architecting different components of a VMware vSphere Infrastructure, I would highly recommend that you read the firstContinue reading “Part 2 – Architecting vCenter Single Sign On (SSO) – A Scoop from my vForum Prezo”

Part 1 – Architecting vSphere Clusters – A scoop from my vForum Prezo!

A few days back, I got an opportunity to present at vForum 2013 in Mumbai, the Financial Capital of India. With more than 3000 participants across 2 days of this mega event, it was definitely one of the biggest customer events in India. I along with my team was re-presenting the VMware Professional Services atContinue reading “Part 1 – Architecting vSphere Clusters – A scoop from my vForum Prezo!”

Site Recovery Manager and vSphere Replication Network Ports Required – Simplified!

Firewalls have been a nightmare for me lately, not because I hate security, but because I hate hunting down the ports which are required to implement solutions successfully. In one of my recent engagement, I came across a heavily fire-walled environment across sites and within sites. As the title of the post suggests, this implementationContinue reading “Site Recovery Manager and vSphere Replication Network Ports Required – Simplified!”

The story of the Chicken Soup. Trust me it’s not Virtual !

Yes.. you read it correctly. It is Chicken Soup which I am going to discuss today. All this while you have been reading about my experiences on different projects which I have done around Virtualization & Cloud Computing. Unlike my other projects, this Statement of Work was given to me by my better half andContinue reading “The story of the Chicken Soup. Trust me it’s not Virtual !”

Using the vSphere Replication Capacity Planning Appliance!

A few days back I wrote an article introducing a Fling by VMware Labs called vSphere Replication Capacity Planning Appliance. I would recommend that you read that post before going through this one. Here is the link:- Calculate Bandwidth Requirements using vSphere Replication Capacity Planning Appliance! As I mentioned in that article, I finally got anContinue reading “Using the vSphere Replication Capacity Planning Appliance!”