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!”
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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!!”
Passed my VCAP5-DCD – The Experience Does Count!
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!”
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 !!”
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