How To Avoid 5 Painful ESXi & Virtual Server Rookie Mistakes!
We’ve all made rookie mistakes before but some errors are painful long after we’ve learned our lesson, ouch… Warning! These FIVE mistakes will make “Best of Brand” hardware look …
Why is My App Running Slow on VMware?
Think Service First eBook Series On January 1, 2014, I’ll be releasing an eBook series called “Think Service First.” Update: Released on Jan 4 2014. It’s something I’ve been …
Uptime for Beginners (99.999 Equals .00100 Downtime)
Intro to Uptime Monitoring Do you know which is more important: server uptime or service downtime? Hang in there while I break this question down into pieces easy to …
3 vSphere Installation and Setup Tips to Avoid Common Mistakes
Here’s the truth – I’ve made a lot of VMware mistakes. There I said it, now here are 3 tips to help avoid costly downtime and outages caused by …
Quick Lesson: VM Performance Checklist for Troubleshooting
Let’s set the stage for this VMware troubleshooting lesson… It’s 2 o’clock in the morning and you just received a call from the NOC. Hundreds of users from around …
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 …