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Advice to VCDX candidates from a Double VCDX

“Sometimes it’s the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination.” – Drake Update: I have updated the wording on the constraints section to reflect a Twitter comment from Martijn Baecke‏ thanks for the fix[…]

Redeploy NSX Edges to a different cluster / datacenter

First Issue my bad I ran into an interesting issue in my home lab. I recently replaced all my older HP servers with Intel NUC’s. I could not be happier with the results. Once I[…]

Powershell Functions for tags

Some quick powershell functions for tags in ESXi enjoy: #add tag to vm function add_tag_to_vm($VM, $TAG) { Get-VM –Name $VM | New-TagAssignment –Tag $TAG } #Add a tag to all virtual machines in folder function[…]

Public cloud has forced change

Readers will immediately cry foul of this title. Public cloud adoption is not huge and even in the most die hard cloud only shops it’s only around 40%. I believe public cloud has[…]

Operational aspects of HCI video

While attending VMworld 2017 I presented on some of the operational aspects of hyper-converged infrastructure. I believe the key takeaways were: Hyper-converged is more than just storage to gain the real benefits Hyper-converged has[…]

How to operate IT with full Velocity

I was honored to be able to present this last week at VMworld 2017. I have always been a huge supporter of vBrownBag and was really happy to present for them at VMworld again[…]

How can you make IT agile?

Every single day I hear the new magic word from IT groups: I need improved agility. It reminds me of how people talked about going to the cloud. Agility is a capability not a[…]

Upgrading to vSphere 6.5 FAQ

I was recently involved in recording a series of Webinars to help customers understand how to upgrade to vSphere 6.5. You can see the on demand recordings here: https://vts.inxpo.com/scripts/Server.nxp?LASCmd=AI:4;F:APIUTILS!51004&PageID=747A2F8A-E3DD-451B-8172-0F8F16EB464B A number of live questions[…]

How to migrate current workloads into NSX

I get this question all the time. How do I migrate my existing VLAN backed workloads into NSX? The answer is pretty simple but it has some design concerns. In order to explain the process[…]

Cross site vMotion requires VMware switches technology

Cross site vMotion is a feature that really shows the power of the VMware platform. When combined with NSX you can move live running virtual machines across long distances. It’s a huge advantage[…]