Performance overview charts are important to any vSphere admin’s life. I often use these as a starting point to troubleshoot contention issues, utilizing advanced charts after consulting the overview. It wasn’t long after upgrading our Windows vCenter server from 5.5 to 6.0… Continue Reading
VMware kicks off another incredible VMworld in less than a week. Last year’s conference was full of colossal announcements around vSphere 6, EVO:RAIL, and vCloud Air. In April, VMware released Project Photon, its lightweight Linux based system for cloud-native applications. This year we can expect to hear… Continue Reading
My home lab hasn’t seen much action since I signed up for Ravello Systems a few months back. While I take comfort in knowing that my hardware is at the ready, Ravello has become my first choice for tinkering. Many of us are preaching… Continue Reading
Choosing the right cloud provider is not a simple task. There are many service providers offering very distinct architectures. How do you choose? Do you favor one provider because you know their product and are more comfortable with them? Or… Continue Reading
How difficult is it for you to get downtime? If you are in the grip of your SLA’s, I’d say it’s damn near impossible. 99.999% is just 5.3 minutes of downtime a year, so how do you plan to spend those minutes?… Continue Reading
Aw, snap! Chrome is at it again and finding new ways to break the spirits of vSphere Web Client users. If you remember, Chrome 42 shipped with NPAPI plugin support disabled which was a nuisance. Now, Chrome 43 won’t even load the… Continue Reading
Last week, VMware announced their lightweight Linux container host called Project Photon. Optimized for VMware on-site and vCloud Air, Photon supports Docker, rkt, and Pivotal containers out of the contain…err… box. As of right now, VMware doesn’t provide a Photon… Continue Reading
Update provided below! Google has been threatening to remove NPAPI (Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface) support for some time now and they’ve tested the waters with version 42 by disabling it. Since the VMware Client Integration Plugin requires NPAPI, administrators now… Continue Reading
Have you ever seen a datastore that’s larger than its underlying LUN? Recently, we’ve been working with another team of administrators to migrate some critical applications to VMware. Because of the unique storage requirements around one application, we’ve ended up with many datastores to… Continue Reading
One of the many great features of vSphere 6 is the new support for multiprocessor fault tolerance (SMP-FT). I’ve been playing around with SMP-FT since vSphere 6 was in Beta and I’m real excited by the possibilities. Many of the… Continue Reading