Author Archives: Michael Webster

Michael is Principal Enterprise Architect for Era Engineering at Nutanix. He has been at Nutanix since the early days of 2013, pre-IPO. He has been using VMware products since 1998 and has been deploying ESX solutions since 2002. He specializes in designing virtualization solutions for Unix to Linux migrations, business critical applications, disaster avoidance, and mergers and acquisitions. Michael has been in the IT industry since 1995 and consulting since 2001. Michael is Nutanix Platform Expert (NPX) #007. In addition to VMware Certified Design Expert (VCDX) he holds VCP, VCP-Cloud, VCAP-DCD, VCAP-DCA, VCAP-CID, VCAP-CIA, ITIL Foundation, MCP I, and MCSE (NT4 – 2K3).

Considerations For Designing a Small vCloud Director Environment – Allocation Models

Michael Webster / January 29, 2013

VMware’s vCloud Director is a very good way for organisations to start to take advantage of cloud computing,…

vCenter Support Assistant – A Must Have For All vSphere Environments

Michael Webster / January 26, 2013

VMware has today released a great new tool that I think is a must have for all vSphere…

Sign-up for Virtualizing Business Critical Applications Boot Camps at PEX 2013

Michael Webster / January 24, 2013

For those of you who are VMware Partners there will be a number of advanced bootcamps at Partner…

Return of the FUD – Oracle Licensing on VMware vSphere

Michael Webster / January 17, 2013

Some of my regular readers may remember an article I published titled Fight the FUD – Oracle Licensing…

Virtualized Oracle Databases on UCS

Michael Webster / January 11, 2013

Some time ago I wrote an article about EMC’s Blueprint for Successful Large Scale Oracle Virtualization on vSphere. Now Cisco…

How Mako Networks Uses Lightweight Virtualization to Create Multi-Tenanted Network Concentrator

Michael Webster / January 11, 2013

I was talking to my friends at Mako Networks, provider of PCI DSS certified and secure network equipment…

50 Partners To Help You Virtualize Business Critical Applications

Michael Webster / January 4, 2013

I just noticed an article on VMware’s Virtualize Business Critical Applications blog listing all the partners globally that have so far been accredited under…

Installing Corporate CA Certificates on iPhone or iPad for Use with VMware View

Michael Webster / January 3, 2013

I was upgrading my VMware View environment recently from 5.0 to 5.1 and wrote about some initial problems…

Fail to Mount ATS-Only VMFS Datastore in ESXi 5.x

Michael Webster / December 31, 2012

I recently noticed VMware KB that talks about vSphere 5.x hosts may fail to mount an ATS-Only VMFS Datastore…

vSphere 5.1 Performance History Not Retained Past 30 Days

Michael Webster / December 31, 2012

I was made aware of a KB 2042164 describing an issue where vSphere 5.1 vCenter Systems will not keep…