Orchestration Will Rule Them All BRC2K11
On Wednesday night I participated on session 2 of the Blogger Reality Contest. From the rankings that were published on Wednesday - I am actually not doing so well (so your continued and strengthened …
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Subscribe via RSS →HP and Minority Report (also Converged Storage)
So here it comes, Blogger Reality Contest - Session #1. We all participated in a briefing of HP’s Converged Storage Solutions But before even starting about what we learned, I asked myself what …
vSphere 5. 0 vRAM Entitlements are to be changed
The first rumor of this was mentioned here by Gabrie van Zanten The original levels were as follows: As I mentioned on a previous post of mine vSphere 5 Licensing is (some kind of) per-VM licensing - …
VMware vCenter Converter to be Retired
Who uses vCenter Converter? Well I do. So I have some bad news for you. It looks like the built-in converter plugin which was part of vCenter 4.x will be no more. This is screen shot from the Beta …
vSphere 5 Licensing is (some kind of) per-VM licensing
After a rocky two days on the blogosphere, the forums, Twitter, and practically everywhere else, I would like to add in my 2 cents. My apologies if this turns out to be a long post. Firstly let me say …
NetApp DFM Console on Ubuntu
I finally got to play around with the NetApp Operations Manager last week. The two options for the management I had, was to install on a package on a Windows/Linux machine that I use or to use the web …
Strange vCenter Permissions Issue
Today I came across a strange issue with permissions and the lack of ability to change permissions on a VM. Someone had by mistake given the explicit Role VirtualMachineUser to the Built-in Group …
Reducing the amount of RAM for vCenter Orchestrator
***** Disclaimer ***** This is not recommended by VMware and I am also pretty sure it is not supported either, so if you make this change then do so at your own risk. The vCenter Orchestrator …
What if you Start Over and Build it Again??
There are several environments (at least in the beginning) that their initial infrastructure was not designed with virtualization in mind. When they started out - virtualization was something that you …
NetApp Virtual Storage Console 2.1 released
NetApp has quietly released an updated version of their Virtual Storage Console Software (you will need a NetApp Now account to access). Here is the announcement: The Virtual Storage Console software …