Single Pane Of Glass – SPOG Window As of this post Google search shows 1,080,000 results for Single Pane Of Glass and the top result shows a basic definition. In the last 2 years I heard the phrase Single Pane Of Glass or SPOG used a number of times including by me when I was [...]
Finding servers which are the “Best Fit” canadates for virtualization can be tricky. I have put together the following criteria checklist to help determine whether a new server provision or a P2V should use virtualization. The Best Fit checklist uses my own criteria and weight recommendations but it can be modified with more liberal values. [...]
This will cover Windows templates but the same steps are used with Linux, except the Sysprep. After you get your VM the way you want it, patches, secured and have your applications installed, you right click on it in the inventory windows of your virtual center and select “convert to template”. Converting to a template [...]
If you have a growing Virtual Infrastructure, like most – it has out grown the monitoring tools integrated into VirtualCenter. VC has very limited capability to help resource managers and NOCs monitor and manage virtuals and this post will identify a few short falls. There are actually three categories this post could be broken up into, [...]
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