vSphere5: What SMB need to know
With the release of vSphere 5 comes what many are calling the “vRAM TAX”. If you haven’t heard of it check out this post I made the other day. Anyhow,…
Author: Justin Paul
vSphere 5 vRAM Considerations
July 12th VMware officially announced vSphere 5 and all of its awesome new features. One of these “features” is called vRam Entitlements. Basically what this “feature” does is limit the…
Had your vHealth Checked Lately?
VMware and its’ partners offer a really cool service to customers called a Health Check. Basically, a Health Check Report is a listing of all of the VMware Best practices……
Setting vCenter Alarms with PowerCLI
Update: This script was intended for vSphere 4 and had a bunch of limitations. For a newer version with more functionality check out FixingITpro.com. PowerCLI, and Powershell in general, are…
Officially a VMware vExpert!
It looks like I can add one more credential to my about page today. This morning I checked my email and found the email I had been hoping for… confirmation…
Another Great Month
I just wanted to take a second to thank everyone who reads my blog. June exceeded my expectations once again on the number of unique visitors as well as the…
My Exagrid Road Map
I did a post a while ago about things I would like to see Veeam add to their road map, and I don’t think that any of them were added,…
RAID10: Do you really need it?
This past week I installed an EMC VNXe 3100, the install went well and the new Unisphere Interface made it a snap to get the VMware ESXi boxes added. One…
VUM Update Staging Fails
Monday I was working on a customer’s system and showing them all the nice features of VMware, I also showed them Update Manager and tried to update their Hosts… and…
Datastore Provisioned Space vs Free Space
Last week I was asked by a customer which datastore would be the best location for a new virtual machine. They asked because while all of their datastores were showing…