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!!”
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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!”
Bitdefender Cloud Security – Providing Security As a Service to Small & Medium Sized Enterprises!
A few days back I wrote about Bitdefender’s GravityZone-in-a-Box as an on-premise security solution for protecting endpoints within an organization. I also showcased as to how you can deploy the solution in your infrastructure in another article. While I was evaluating the product as an on-premise solution for end-point security, I also got an opportunityContinue reading “Bitdefender Cloud Security – Providing Security As a Service to Small & Medium Sized Enterprises!”
Creating vCenter Operations Manager Dashboards Using Customized Interactions Mode.
In my recent vCenter Operations Manager projects, I have extensively worked on customizing vCOps for customers to meet the needs of their specific use cases. In one such engagement, I was asked to build up a custom dashboard which shows all the key metrics of a selected object. The use case of this dashboard isContinue reading “Creating vCenter Operations Manager Dashboards Using Customized Interactions Mode.”
Preview of Custom Dashboards Available With vCenter Operations Manager 5.7.x.
With this blog, I wanted to showcase the power of custom dashboards in vCenter Operations Manager. In the past I have written about creating custom dashboards with vCOps. I would encourage you to read all those articles before you read this one. An easy way to access all those articles is through the page dedicatedContinue reading “Preview of Custom Dashboards Available With vCenter Operations Manager 5.7.x.”
vForum Mumbai – Register and Attend The Biggest Virtualization Event in India!
It’s that time of the year when, VMworld SF and VMworld Barcelona are over. As always, there are a lot of of new announcements which have been made at VMworld 2013 and I am sure a number of you might have not had the time or the opportunity to be at the event. This shouldContinue reading “vForum Mumbai – Register and Attend The Biggest Virtualization Event in India!”
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