Building a Home Fibre Router Firewall
We recently changed over from Vodafone VDSL to Chorus UltraFast Broadband (UFB) Fibre Max with Vodafone (See Vodafone…
Stop Playing Russian Roulette With Your Data
Some vendors in the storage, hyper-converged, and cloud industries may be playing Russian Roulette with their customers’ data.…
Simplified Sizing for Virtualizing SAP Environments
I recently had the pleasure of attending SAP & ASUG SapphireNow conference in Orlando Florida, where the audience…
How to Performance Test 101 in 5 Steps
That sort of thing has happened to me too. BTW, one day you should do a how to…
Heads Up! Do Not Upgrade VMware Tools on Hosts with ESXi 6.0 U1b
Heads Up! If you’ve updated to ESXi 6.0 U1b, build 3380124 and you have lots of templates, you…
Introducing Nick Bowie VCDX-202 with a #Nutanix Based VCDX Design and 2nd #VCDX in New Zealand
After a lot of hard work and hundreds of hours of preparation the journey to VMware Certified Design…
VMware vSphere 6.0 Release Revolution for Mobile Cloud Era
While a lot of people (me included) are excited about the technical speeds and feeds of the vSphere 6…
VMworld 2014 Wrap Up
Another VMworld event is over and it’s hard to believe it’s been a whole 12 months since the…
Get Your Monster VM Fix Before VMworld 2014 – Chance to Win Free Ticket to VMworld Europe
Although my Monster VM panel was in the top 10 sessions of VMworld 2013 and we did a…
Large Packet Loss At Guest OS Level in VMware ESXi When Using VMXNET3
Back in 2010 I was helping a large company troubleshoot their virtualized SAP environment, which was experiencing instability…