28 November 2011 ~ 3 Comments

Book Review: Critical VMware Mistakes You Should Avoid by Larry Loucks

Book Review: Critical VMware Mistakes You Should Avoid by Larry Loucks I have often thought of writing my own book on “things not to do” when building a virtual infrastructure and for what it’s worth, Larry Loucks has covered just about everything I would have written about – down to how recklessly VMware or other hyper-visors [...]

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27 November 2011 ~ 0 Comments

The Best Virtual Environment are Designed and Maintained by the Best Virtualization Engineers

The Best Virtual Environment are Designed and Maintained by the Best Virtualization Engineers This post is dedicated to my friend’s, associates and counterparts who go un-noticed by those managers and VPs who don’t get it. You are the brains behind the magic that virtualizes all those servers. You make VMware look easy, even though we [...]

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19 June 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Virtual Machines Running or Registered on Multiple ESX Servers

Does your vCenter flicker when browsing clusters? There could be a problem… Over the last 3 years I’ve seen this happen twice and both times it was not good. Both cases were caused from an HA event that was interrupted, which left multiple VMs registered on more than one host. Fortunately, the VM stays running and the fix does not [...]

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18 June 2011 ~ 1 Comment

Troubleshooting ESX cluster and HA errors – DNS could be the problem!

Has it been hours, or even days, since you started troubleshooting ESX cluster and HA errors? I can relate to this painful and tiring experience. Although, I could be just taking it for granted that everyone doing virtual infrastructure installations has the same problems and issues that I have run into, NOT! DNS issues seem [...]

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