As the manager of a large virtual infrastructure, I’m always looking for excellent VMware talent for my team. Weekly I review resumes and to be honest – Some are good, some are bad, and some are just plain ugly! What gets my attention isn’t just the words: VMware, ESX, ESXi or VCP on resumes, but moreover when [...]
VMware ESXTOP Commands for Storage Monitoring Let me just say that lately I’ve been spending way too much time learning about storage. The differences between 3PAR, HP, EMC, Lefthand and NetApp. How to configure, how to carve it, aggregates, LUN, spindle, IOPS, volumes, RAID groups, disk group, parity groups, queue depth, dedupe, replication, snapshot, and so [...]
When it comes to connecting ESX Server to NetApp storage, there are two flavors: iSCSI and Fiber Channel. If your organization can afford FC, then you have a larger IT budget than most of us, so you should have IT staff trained to configure your LUN storage. However, for the rest of the tight budget [...]
10 Biggies to Help Managers and Admins Avoid Virtualization Pit-Falls I wish this information was available 10 years ago when I started working with virtualization, but then again, like many reading this, I thought I was an expert and didn’t need it. Now I see myself as a student because of how fast virtualization is changing. 1. [...]
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