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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
Getting Started with Solarwinds Virtualization Manager 7
December 18, 2016 | David Davis, vExpert, VCP/VCAP, CCIE
The folks at Solarwinds have been busy enhancing their Virtualization Manager product with some great new features. I’ve done a full review of the new edition here -> Review: Solarwinds Virtualization Manager 7.0 – New Recommendations and Remediations! So how … Read More
vChat Podcast Episode 40 – EMCworld 2016, OpenStack Summit 2016 and Hot Tech with @Kiwi_Si and @DavidMDavis
June 6, 2016 | David Davis, vExpert, VCP/VCAP, CCIE
In this milestone episode #40, Simon and David talk about EMCworld 2016, OpenStack Summit 2016, home labs, Megacasts, vSphere-Land Voting, vSphere 6 training, and LOT of hot new tech (like kickstarter gadgets). Show notes with hyperlinks are below. WATCH NOW … Read More
VMworld 2015 – Not Your Typical Tradeshow
October 22, 2015 | David Davis, vExpert, VCP/VCAP, CCIE
As the U.S. VMworld 2015 recedes into our rear view mirror and we gear up for Barcelona next month, you might be wondering if a large trade show like this is worth attending. After my experience in San Francisco earlier … Read More
LIVE from VMworld 2015! – vChat Podcast Episode 39 with @DavidMDavis @Kiwi_Si and @EricSiebert
September 17, 2015 | David Davis, vExpert, VCP/VCAP, CCIE
In this episode, recorded LIVE at VMworld 2015, Simon, Eric, and David (all together in one place – a professional recording studio with a 3 camera setup in fact), the vChat crew covers their person experiences at VMworld 2015. We … Read More
vSphere Home Labs and EMC vVNX – vChat Podcast #38
August 5, 2015 | David Davis, vExpert, VCP/VCAP, CCIE
In vChat #38 Simon, Eric, and David talk about what they are using for their vSphere virtual labs (cloud, physical, and virtual), Simon’s new vVNX videos and how vVNX can be used for home labs, and other home lab vSphere … Read More
VMware Virtual Volumes (VVOLs) – vChat Podcast #37
July 22, 2015 | David Davis, vExpert, VCP/VCAP, CCIE
In vChat #37 Simon, Eric, and David talk about VMware Virtual Volumes (VVOLs), what they are, how they work, how they compare to alternatives, what’s required, and what we think the adoption rate will be. JOIN US to learn more!
vSphere Snapshot Monitor – SnapWatcher – Now GA – Independence Day Special
July 1, 2015 | David Davis, vExpert, VCP/VCAP, CCIE
In my recent post, Finding and Eliminating Dangerous vSphere Snapshots with Snapwatcher, I talked about a powerful new tool that was currently in beta. What SnapWatcher does for VMware admins is to…
- Monitor VMware snapshots across VMware vCenter systems and … Read More
Finding and Eliminating Dangerous vSphere Snapshots with Snapwatcher (for Free)
June 4, 2015 | David Davis, vExpert, VCP/VCAP, CCIE 1
The word “dangerous” is often used for hazardous chemicals or live ammunition so can vSphere snapshots really be dangerous or is that an exaggeration? The answer is that, for the health of your vSphere infrastructure, snapshots can absolutely be dangerous. … Read More
Solving VMware vSphere Tools Are Outdated or Not Installed
April 24, 2015 | David Davis, vExpert, VCP/VCAP, CCIE
One of the most common problems you’ll ever see in any VMware vSphere infrastructure is the error message “VMware Tools are Outdated or Not Installed”. For those who don’t know, VMware Tools are a suite of utilities that enhance the … Read More
Better Disk Image Deployment: SmartDeploy
December 19, 2014 | admin
Editor’s Note: The following post was authored by Nigel Hickey a vExpert, VCP5-DCV, VCA [DCV | WM | Cloud], Blogger and Infrastructure Administrator.
At one time or another you have likely spent all day building an image for a desktop, … Read More
Unitrends Boomerang Brings Affordable Cloud-Based DR to a Burgeoning Portfolio
November 13, 2014 | Scott D. Lowe, vExpert, MVP Virtual Machine, MCSE
This week, Unitrends unveiled their Boomerang service, which was made possible via the company’s acquisition of Yuruware in early 2014. Boomerang is a service that enables organizations to “simply and affordably move virtual machines (VMs) from VMware to Amazon Web … Read More
Top 5 VMware Admin Tips to Keep App Owners Happy
September 29, 2014 | David Davis, vExpert, VCP/VCAP, CCIE
In my last post, Storage Education and Learning Resources for VMware Admins, I provided numerous resources for VMware Admins to get up to speed on storage. Whenever you think about storage, and the rest of the infrastructure in the datacenter, you … Read More
Storage Education and Learning Resources for VMware Admins
September 18, 2014 | David Davis, vExpert, VCP/VCAP, CCIE
You may be one of the many VMware admins who were unwillingly dropping into the world or storage when you wanted to take advantage of advanced VMware features like high availability (HA) and distributed resources scheduler (DRS). In my case, … Read More
Veeam Provides a Whole Lot of Free (And Useful!) Goodies
September 6, 2014 | Scott D. Lowe, vExpert, MVP Virtual Machine, MCSE 1
You probably know that Veeam has provided some tools for free, but you may not know that full breadth of what you can get from the company without paying a dime. Obviously, Veeam hopes that you fall in love with … Read More
Review: Veeam Backup and Replication Cloud Edition v7
March 25, 2014 | Scott D. Lowe, vExpert, MVP Virtual Machine, MCSE
Even as analysts and pundits bat around fancy new terms like “software-defined”, “hyperconverged”, and “big data”, CIOs and those responsible for data stewardship continue to be faced with ongoing challenges related to how to best protect the information assets of … Read More
Top Virtualization Blogs (vBlog) 2014 Results Show – STREAMED LIVE #TopvBlog2014
March 25, 2014 | David Davis, vExpert, VCP/VCAP, CCIEJoin Eric Siebert from vSphere-land, David Davis from Virtualization Software, Rick Vanover from Veeam and John Troyer from VMware as we countdown the top 25 bloggers based on the results from my annual VMware/virtualization blog survey. This event will be broadcast live via Google Hangouts at 10:00am PST … Read More
Free Data Protection and Virtualization Knowledge Videos From Veeam Backup Academy
March 24, 2014 | Scott D. Lowe, vExpert, MVP Virtual Machine, MCSE
I have to give Veeam some “kudos” (thats a good thing for those who aren’t familiar with the term) for their contributions to the virtualization community. Many vendors post whitepapers, blogs, videos, and podcasts about THEIR products but rarely do … Read More
VMware VSAN – 5 Reasons It’s Unique: Video Interview, Pricing, Slide Deck, & VSAN Links
March 12, 2014 | David Davis, vExpert, VCP/VCAP, CCIE 2
Today, VMware officially launched their new sofware-defined storage solution for vSphere virtual machines – VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN). Along with the release of VSAN is the release of vSphere 5.5 Update 1. Of course, the big news is the pricing, … Read More
Comparison: Zerto vs. Site Recovery Manager (SRM) & vSphere Replication
March 10, 2014 | David Davis, vExpert, VCP/VCAP, CCIE 7
Virtualization has made disaster recovery tremendously less complex for companies, large and small. In fact, it’s not a stretch to say that virtualization has made disaster recovery “possible” at many companies, simply because prior to virtualization it was technically overwhelming … Read More
Designing the Next Generation vSphere Storage Systems
March 6, 2014 | David Davis, vExpert, VCP/VCAP, CCIE 2
Today, most enterprises are using traditional storage arrays (NAS or SAN) with spinning disk from a big name storage company like EMC or NetApp. In fact, I would bet that the vast majority of those companies have even bought new … Read More
Big Data is Coming After Your Data Center And That’s a Good Thing
March 5, 2014 | Scott D. Lowe, vExpert, MVP Virtual Machine, MCSE 3
There’s a nasty little irony in the world of IT. While business units seek IT’s assistance in creating and leveraging data-based metrics programs to provide deep level analytics into how to improve the business, IT, in many cases, has yet … Read More
Using vSphere Changed Block Tracking with EMC Networker Backup
March 3, 2014 | Lauren Malhoit, VCP, MCSE: Security, and CCNA 2
Changed Block Tracking (CBT) is a feature that has been around for a while within VMware virtual machines. CBT is available if you’re running ESX 4.0 or higher with hardware version 7 or higher on the VM. Basically, VMware can … 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
How To Deploy VMware Cloud Automation Center (vCAC)
January 22, 2014 | Lauren Malhoit, VCP, MCSE: Security, and CCNA
VMware’s Cloud Automation Center (vCAC) is a tool that enables end users to consume the services that reside in your company’s data center while allowing administrators to maintain control over this consumption. In other words, vCAC brings to the enterprise … Read More
