VMware vSphere ESXi – Virtual Machine Best Practices
I feel like this is a beat up topic, but it honestly is my one of my favorites sessions every year during VMworld (SQL best practices to be more precise,…
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August 17, 2021
Pure Storage FlashArray – Is your bandwidth balanced?
After my last post, I felt like this follow up was necessary! Are you the Storage Admin and you do not have access to the VMware environment (wait, whut?!)? Or…
August 10, 2021
VMware ESXi Round Robin Path Selection with Pure Storage
Are you a VMware shop and you are currently using Pure Storage? In case you missed their best practices guide, I wanted to provide you with a simple command to…
August 9, 2021
Nutanix Nodes – Initial Configuration in non-flat network
Do you have a complex network (IPv6 disabled, IGMP snooping disabled, etc) and you do not want to make the required changes for the node auto-discovery to be seamless? Not…
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August 5, 2021
Nutanix and Redhat Partnership
If you embrace the devops approach, this is exciting news for you! Nutanix and Redhat are establishing a partnership to improve their relationship and support for each other's products. Simple,…
August 4, 2021
VMware – HCX 4.1 Bulk Migrations
Are you ready to learn about workload portability to any cloud with HCX? Is your datacenter hardware getting older and support cost sky rocketing? Would you would prefer to spend…
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July 28, 2021
vSphere Replication Upgrade – Version 8.2 to 8.4
This blog was started by an email one customer received regarding their SRM and vSphere Replication versions running on-prem. The VMware Cloud team sent an email out to remind customers…
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July 9, 2021
Are you ready to get out of the house yet?
I posted a LinkedIn poll last week and the final results are out... Only 8% of the people that voted are not comfortable at all yet, and 22% are comfortable…
July 8, 2021
Veeam VDDK async operation error: 14009
Just ran into an issue that took me a couple hours to figure out. Started with a one off VM backup error so I just retried the job not thinking…
July 5, 2021
Microsoft Domain Controller Vulnerability Print Spooler Service
Did you schedule a change to disable the “Print Spooler” service on your domain controllers yet?Hurry up before it is too late! More information here
July 1, 2021