Management - Virtualization Software
Review: Solarwinds Virtualization Manager 7.0 – New Recommendations and Remediations!
December 18, 2016 | David Davis, vExpert, VCP/VCAP, CCIE
Whether it’s a small business or the largest enterprise, server virtualization has become the norm. New servers are “virtual first” and even the most critical physical servers are now being virtualized. Virtual machines running on today’s virtual infrastructures are now … Read More
Review: Zetta.net DataProtect – Enterprise-Grade Cloud Backup & Disaster Recovery
October 20, 2014 | David Davis, vExpert, VCP/VCAP, CCIE
Enterprises of all sizes need the best data protection that fits their budget. Unfortunately, too many get bogged down with the complexities of running their own data protection infrastructure, offsite data storage, and disaster recovery solutions. Increasingly, the smarter choice … Read More
vSphere Design 101: Back to Basics
February 28, 2014 | Lauren Malhoit, VCP, MCSE: Security, and CCNA
This year, I was able to attend VMware Partner Exchange 2014 in San Francisco and took one of the boot camps that comes before the actual PEX event. This particular boot camp is the vSphere Design Boot Camp. There are … Read More
Exclusive Video: Exploring the Guts of the Nutanix Architecture
February 12, 2014 | Scott D. Lowe, vExpert, MVP Virtual Machine, MCSE
Recently, during ActualTech Media’s first Road Show, David Davis and I had the opportunity to meet with a variety of technology companies pioneering new ways to do IT. Over the past couple of years, Nutanix has demonstrated to the market … Read More
Free Virtualization Admin Resources From Veeam
January 15, 2014 | David Davis, vExpert, VCP/VCAP, CCIE
Sure, most companies produce a lot of white paper and video content but much of that is self-serving as it’s only geared toward pushing you to buy their product. I have to give kudos to Veeam, on the other hand, … Read More
How to Install VMware Log Insight 1.5
January 3, 2014 | Lauren Malhoit, VCP, MCSE: Security, and CCNA
Last year VMware released their solution for log management and analytics for both hosts and guests within your environment. Log Insight collects real time log events, such as critical errors or authentication issues, from physical and virtual machines. It then … Read More
Coho Data Brings SDN to SDS for a Killer Combination
November 26, 2013 | Chris Wahl 1
Coho Data, one of the newly unveiled start-ups focused on providing scale-out storage, sends their CTO Andy Warfield to tackle a group of cutting-edge tech bloggers and analysis during Storage Field Day 4. The results were spectacular – getting into … Read More
Review: Solarwinds Virtualization Manager 6.0
October 31, 2013 | Scott D. Lowe, vExpert, MVP Virtual Machine, MCSEFor all intents and purposes, the hypervisor has become the bare metal of the data center. When administrators make decisions as to how to support workloads, they are planning ways to carve resources from the overall virtual environment. Rarely are … Read More
Using PowerCLI to Configure vCenter Alarm Notifications in vSphere 5.1
June 8, 2013 | Lauren Malhoit, VCP, MCSE: Security, and CCNA
I’ve been playing with PowerCLI a little bit recently. It really is a nice tool for automating things in your vCenter environment. If you don’t how to use VMware PowerCLI check out this page to get started. The following script … Read More
vSphere with Operations Manager (vSOM) 101
April 24, 2013 | David Davis, vExpert, VCP/VCAP, CCIE 3
In the new VMware vSphere (starting with 5.1 and above), VMware includes the vCenter Operations Manager Foundation Edition with every version of vSphere, starting with vSphere Essentials Plus and above. While foundation edition may be a good start for the … Read More
VMware vCenter Operations Manager 101
April 9, 2013 | David Davis, vExpert, VCP/VCAP, CCIE
While VMware’s vCenter does provide basic performance graphs, it’s just not powerful enough to answer the performance and capacity questions that virtualization admins require. vCenter doesn’t do capacity planning or correlate change tracking with performance events. Finally, vCenter can’t tell … Read More
Understanding the Top 4 Performance Metrics in vSphere
March 14, 2013 | Scott D. Lowe, vExpert, MVP Virtual Machine, MCSE
vSphere environments can be complex beasts that require a lot of attention and ongoing tuning to get “just right.” When it comes to ensuring the ongoing acceptable performance of that vSphere environment, there exist hundreds of different performance metrics. vSphere … Read More
