Invitation to join – India’s First Ever VCP Club. Come join the exclusive gang!

This article is specific to my India based audience who are VCP certified. The invite below is to call out the VMware Certified Professionals based out of India to join the exclusive LinkedIn Group – India VCP Club. I am trying to put across the word to all the fellow VCPs who can benefit from becomingContinue reading “Invitation to join – India’s First Ever VCP Club. Come join the exclusive gang!”

Installing GravityZone-in-a-Box (GZiaB) in a VMware vSphere Environment..

This post is in continuation with my previous post which introduced the new launch of Bitdefender’s endpoint security product for SMB segment called “GravityZone-in-a-Box (GZiaB). I would suggest you to read thats article to get an overview about the product, – “Bitdefender’s GravityZone-in-a-Box – A thoughtful solution for Endpoint security!” As promised before, I willContinue reading “Installing GravityZone-in-a-Box (GZiaB) in a VMware vSphere Environment..”

Bitdefender’s GravityZone-in-a-Box – A thoughtful solution for Endpoint security!

A few months ago I wrote an article around using vShield Endpoint in vSphere environments for protecting workloads running in your virtual data-center. The primary reason behind writing that article was to encourage VMware users/customers to look at this centralized approach of running anti-virus and anti-malware in the virtual world. This approach not only helps you withContinue reading “Bitdefender’s GravityZone-in-a-Box – A thoughtful solution for Endpoint security!”

Calculate Bandwidth Requirements using vSphere Replication Capacity Planning Appliance!

With a number of consulting engagements which I have done and the one’s which I am working on, I have seen an increasing demand for using Host Based Replication solutions for data replication. In few of my recent projects, I have implemented VMware Site Recovery Manager with the combination of VMware vSphere Replication.  I haveContinue reading “Calculate Bandwidth Requirements using vSphere Replication Capacity Planning Appliance!”

vSphere Design Pocket Book – Grab your free e-copy now!

A few days back I wrote about the vSphere Design Pocket Book being available for a pre-order in this article – Pocket Size Magic for Designing your vSphere Infrastructure. Pre-order your copy now!! The book is now available for download and you can get a free e-copy through this link – Register and Download vSphere DesignContinue reading “vSphere Design Pocket Book – Grab your free e-copy now!”

VMware Certified Associate – Your Gateway to learn about the disruptive world of VMware!

This blog post is for those who are looking for an entry point in the world of Virtualization. As technologists most of us know that Server Virtualization is not a new concept. The approach of creating logical partitions of physical hardware to create virtual compute units has been around since Mainframe days. VMware however changedContinue reading “VMware Certified Associate – Your Gateway to learn about the disruptive world of VMware!”

"Dependency Missing" error while installing HP EVA Storage Replication Adapter!

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!”

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?”