Joe Sanchez - VMware, Cloud & DevOps Enthusiast

Author: Joe Sanchez

VMware, Hybrid Cloud & DevOps Engineer. Author, Blogger, and IT Infra & Ops Manager. Joe believes that creating the best user experience is his top priority. Visit Joe on "LinkedIn". Feel free to leave him your comments below...

Capacity Planning and Monitoring for VMware Virtual Infrastructure

If you have a growing Virtual Infrastructure, like most – it has outgrown the monitoring tools integrated into VirtualCenter. VC has very limited capability to help resource managers and NOCs …

Zombie VMs Soon to be Hunted by vZombie

*** Note: Sorry this project has been discontinued.*** Yesterday I was working on a PowerShell script for identifying VMs that are using resources but their role is no longer required.Either …

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 …

ESX iSCSI Connection to NetApp

When it comes to connecting ESX Server to NetApp storage, there are several ways: IP and Fiber, iSCSI and NFS. If your organization can afford FC, then you have a …

Free Citrix XenServer or Free VMware ESXi (xenserver vs esxi)

Seems like a lot of people are comparing XenServer vs ESXi so I thought I’d update this post with new data. (revised 6/4/2012) In the blue corner what VMware has …

Post P2V Guide: Step by Step Removing Ghost Hardware

It’s been a while since I had to P2V a Windows server but recently I found myself on a project doing P2Vs of business critical servers, again. FYI: The new …