Just a quick note about one of my recent experience while deploying SRM 5.1 at a customer’s site. After setting up the vCenter and SRM server, I went ahead and tried installing the HP EVA SRA which was downloaded and kept by the customer. For those who are not aware of what is a SRAContinue reading “"Dependency Missing" error while installing HP EVA Storage Replication Adapter!”
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Pocket Size Magic for Designing your vSphere Infrastructure. Pre-order your copy now!!
A few weeks back PernixData (A flash virtualization OEM) came up with a project to author a community book which speaks about the most important vSphere Design Considerations. PernixData has recently launched there flagship product named PernixData FVP which will act as a Flash Storage for VMware Infrastructure. The idea behind this book was to get the bestContinue reading “Pocket Size Magic for Designing your vSphere Infrastructure. Pre-order your copy now!!”
Group your vCenter Operations Manager Custom Dashboards with 3 simple steps.
Just wanted to share a quick tip with my readers and users of vCenter Operations Manager. If you have been working on vCenter Operations Advanced and Enterprise Editions, you must be well versed with vCOps Custom Dashboards. In this article I will give you a quick tip to Group Custom Dashboards for ease of managementContinue reading “Group your vCenter Operations Manager Custom Dashboards with 3 simple steps.”
How Does vCenter Operations Manager Collects Data from a vSphere Environment?
This article is to ensure that I document a discussion I had a few days back with some Gurus of vCenter Operations Manager. The discussion ignited from a customer requirement where they wanted to know: “If they can ETL (Extract, Transform & Load) 2 years old data from the vCenter Server DB into their freshlyContinue reading “How Does vCenter Operations Manager Collects Data from a vSphere Environment?”
VMware Cloud Credibility: One-Stop-Shop To Learn About Cloud!
A few days back I was listening to VMware Communities Roundtable Podcast hosted by John Mark Troyer who works for VMware as a Director for the social media evangelist group. The podcast was of great interest to me as it discussed the VMware vExpert 2013 rewardees. In-fact, once the results were out here, I was extremely happy and excitedContinue reading “VMware Cloud Credibility: One-Stop-Shop To Learn About Cloud!”
Hardware considerations while using VMware Site Recovery Manager!
Today, I received a query from a VMware partner around hardware requirements for VMware Site Recovery Manager. Although the SRM solution is hardware agnostic in most of the cases, there are a number of things one must be careful of before implementing Site Recovery Manager in there vSphere infrastructure. I replied to the query andContinue reading “Hardware considerations while using VMware Site Recovery Manager!”
Showcasing Virtual Datacenter Capacity using vCenter Operations Manager Dashboards.
A few months back, I wrote about the capabilities of vCenter Operations Manager around Capacity Management in this article – vCenter Operations Manager – Solving Performance, Capacity and Configuration Problems!!. With this article I wanted to take a step further and showcase how you can use vCOps in a real world scenario to monitor the capacityContinue reading “Showcasing Virtual Datacenter Capacity using vCenter Operations Manager Dashboards.”
Part 2 – Using vCOps Super Metrics & Custom Dashboards to Display Datastore Usage % !!
This post speaks about creating a Custom Dashboard in vCOps using Super Metrics. Please read the Part 1 of this series to ensure that you know the context. Here is the link – Part 1 – Using vCOps Super Metrics & Custom Dashboards to Display Datastore Usage % !! Now since we have the SuperContinue reading “Part 2 – Using vCOps Super Metrics & Custom Dashboards to Display Datastore Usage % !!”
Part 1 – Using vCOps Super Metrics & Custom Dashboards to Display Datastore Usage % !!
For the past few weeks, I have been working on vCenter Operations Manager as a part of a project. As always, I am here to share my experience around the work I have been doing and hopefully help the larger VMware community. As we all know, one of the basic rule of thumb is toContinue reading “Part 1 – Using vCOps Super Metrics & Custom Dashboards to Display Datastore Usage % !!”
VMworld 2013 – Call for Papers Voting is Now Open. Cast your vote to see your favorite sessions!!
Time of the year when VMware has opened the flood gates for votes on sessions you would like to see at VMworld – The flagship industry event by VMware. Its been 10 long years that VMware has been running the show and this year its gonna be as big as always. It is a greatContinue reading “VMworld 2013 – Call for Papers Voting is Now Open. Cast your vote to see your favorite sessions!!”
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