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.…
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…
Configuring Scalable Low Latency L2 Leaf-Spine Network Fabrics with Dell Networking Switches
In December 2014 I got an early Christmas present from Dell. They shipped me the latest 40G and…
Nutanix Web Scale IT Now with All Flash and Metro Availability
Nutanix Web Scale NoSAN now meets NoDisk. I didn’t know that the band Queen could predict the future…
Nutanix and vCloud Automation Center
My colleague Magnus Andresson (VCDX-56 and Double VCDX DCV/Cloud) has put together some short videos showing some example…
VMware Turns Off TPS Taps in vSphere ESXi and vCloud Air to Avoid Rare VMescape Security Bug
VMware has announced that it will turn off TPS in upcoming version of it’s hypervisor ESXi and vCloud Air hybrid…
Evaluating A HyperConverged Virtualization Platform – Questions To Ask
As more and more companies start to look at hyperconverged, web scale (such as Nutanix – where I work) or…
Virtualizing SQL Server with VMware: Doing IT Right!
The printing presses at VMware Press have been churning out copies of Virtualizing SQL Server with VMware: Doing…
VMware VCAP-CIA Exam Experience and Recommendations
On Wednesday 14th May (NZST) I sat the VMware Advanced Professional – Cloud Infrastructure Administration (VCAP-CIA) exam. After…
Master the Monster VM Performance in Your Software-Defined Datacenter at VMworld 2014
At VMworld in 2013, which had 25,000 attendees, it was fantastic that one of my sessions got into the…