Is vMan the vSphere Super Hero Your Single Point of Failure?
Is too much of your vSphere Cloud success riding on the shoulders of one person? We all love a good movie about the hero who rides into gunfire to …
Virtual Server DR Strategy for Beginners: Failure Domain
Are all your egg’s in one basket? Keeping all the business critical virtual servers in the same datastore, LUN, or storage volume is a common OVERSIGHT for many IT …
Service Management Guide: ITSM for Virtualization
What’s the difference between deploying a service versus installing a software technology? A lot! For example think about what you expect from companies that provide you with water, electricity, …
Virtualization Beginner’s Guide Book
About Virtualization, A Beginner’s Guide I came across an interesting book today, Virtualization, A Beginner’s Guide, that seems like an interesting read for those new to the virtualization topic and are …
vSphere Monitoring for Health & Performance
Managing and supporting various vSphere environments over the years has given me a binocular view of what vSphere monitoring checks are best for keeping ESXi hosts healthy and VMs …
19 Virtualization Basics: Part 2 for VMware Beginners
Virtualization is NOT for Dummies! As a part 2 follow-up for 23 VMware for Beginners tips, this post is a collection of 19 more tips (and best practices) I’ve …