VMware Storage vMotion, Data Movers, Thin Provisioning, Barriers to Monster VM’s
I’ve recently been testing some Monster VM’s in my lab and setting up templates to provision these Monster…
Reboot or Shutdown ESXi 5.x Host Using Command Line
I was recently doing some maintenance and upgrades on some of the hosts in my lab environment when I…
VCDX Application Built on a Foundation of Beta Software Not Good Strategy for Success
Yesterday I and a number of other VCDX holders and Panelists were having a discussion with a hopeful…
The Future of IT – People and Change, Datacenters and More
I recently had the pleasure of being invited to participate in a panel discussion on Google+ Hangout on…
VMware vCloud Director is Dead, Long Live vCloud Director
You might recognise the title in different terms. It’s very similar to “The King is dead, long live…
Radically Simple High Performance Graphics Desktops and Increased Density Delivered Just in Time for VMware View 5.3
Today Nutanix (@nutanix) delivered major hardware updates to it’s radically simple Google like infrastructure platform for the masses.…
New Adventure to Redefine Radically Simple Architecture for Business Critical Apps with Nutanix
As some of you may have seen on the Register article Nutanix building an elite squad of crack…
Live Migration of Monster Oracle RAC Nodes without Client Disruption? Easy as VMware vSphere!
Those that are familiar with VMware technology will know vMotion well, and how reliably it works. VMware has…
vSphere Metro Stretched Cluster with vSphere 5.5 and PDL AutoRemove
In my article vSphere 5.5 Jumbo VMDK Deep Dive I covered the new PDL AutoRemove feature of vSphere 5.5 briefly,…
Cores Per Socket and vNUMA in VMware vSphere #vForumAU #vForumSG
During the Monster VM Design Panel at VMworld in San Francisco and Barcelona our panel was asked about…