Can’t express how happy I was when I saw the message on the screen – “Congratulations- You have Passed the VCAP5-DCD.”. I waited for an excruciating 225 minutes looking at the 26 inches monitor and going through 100 questions to finally get the result which I wanted and I am extremely happy. The happiness is actuallyContinue reading “Passed my VCAP5-DCD – The Experience Does Count!”
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Dividing Bandwidth of a 10 GB CNA Adapter for ESXi Networking and Storage using Network I/O Control (NIOC)
This post circles back to an article which I wrote in the month of January 2013, about Dividing Bandwidth of a 10 GB CNA Adapter for ESXi Networking and Storage!! In that article, I gave you an overview of how you can divide the available bandwidth on a 10 GB CNA card at the hardware level toContinue reading “Dividing Bandwidth of a 10 GB CNA Adapter for ESXi Networking and Storage using Network I/O Control (NIOC)”
vSphere 5.1 Single Sign-on (SSO) – Deployment & Configuration Made Easy!!
A few days back one of my favorite blogger – Michael Webster, wrote about vSphere Singe-Sign On and some best practices around it. Interestingly, the title he chose for this article was “Disabling vSphere 5.1 Single Sign-on (SSO) – Don’t do it!” Well, even before reading the article, I knew why he chose that title.Continue reading “vSphere 5.1 Single Sign-on (SSO) – Deployment & Configuration Made Easy!!”
How to License vCenter Operations Manager (vCOPS) 5.6 !!
In a recent engagement, I got an opportunity to work on installing the VMware Stack in a Greenfield deployment. Along with the vSphere 5.1 suite, this deployment also had the installation of vCOPS 5.6. After the deployment of the OVF template, we registered the vCenter with the vCOPS on the Admin UI. As you know,Continue reading “How to License vCenter Operations Manager (vCOPS) 5.6 !!”
vSphere Architecture Design Review Process – Things to do!!
In my current project I am roped in to work on reviewing the existing architecture of a client with a large install base of vSphere. In the process I developed a small review process which I have represented in a form of a flowchart. I thought it would be helpful for VMware consultants and customersContinue reading “vSphere Architecture Design Review Process – Things to do!!”
How to Backup & Restore a VMware vSphere Distributed Virtual Switch (VDS)
One of the new features of vSphere 5.1 Web Client is to help you backup the settings of your existing Distributed Virtual Switch. You can keep this backup handy for either applying of a new DVSwitch or to restore the settings of the original DVswitch form where you took this backup. This is a simpleContinue reading “How to Backup & Restore a VMware vSphere Distributed Virtual Switch (VDS)”
PernixData – An overview and a lot of excitement!
I could not stop myself to write this article as I was pretty excited about what I am hearing and reading about PernixData. PernixData is a start-up which is trying to innovate the old and left alone technology of Server Side Caching which could be a paradigm shift in the the field of how DatacenterContinue reading “PernixData – An overview and a lot of excitement!”
VMware Virtualization Blogs – Vote for the best in business!
Just wanted to notify all the readers about the voting for the Top 10 Virtualization blogs in the industry which is opened now. This is an yearly election which is conducted by vsphere-land.com by opening a poll to the VMware community to rate the best blogs around the globe. Lets look at what vSphere Land hasContinue reading “VMware Virtualization Blogs – Vote for the best in business!”
Using the VMware Hardware Compatibility List (HCL)!!
With each project kick-off or a knowledge transfer session, I emphasize on the importance of VMware Hardware Compatibility List as being the bible for making procurement and implementation decisions for any piece of hardware for your VMware environment. The Hardware Compatibility List, more popularly known as VMware HCL within VMware, is a single point ofContinue reading “Using the VMware Hardware Compatibility List (HCL)!!”
ESXi/ESX host becomes Inaccessible/Not-Responding in vCenter after Un-Presenting Storage Luns
Today, I was responding to an e-mail from a system engineer from the VMware Partner Community. This was about an issue which they recently faced in a customer’s VMware Infrastructure. This is reference with handling of Storage LUNS and Datastores on vSphere 4.x and 5.x platforms. Here is the issue:- “We have some unused dataContinue reading “ESXi/ESX host becomes Inaccessible/Not-Responding in vCenter after Un-Presenting Storage Luns”
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