It took a while, but finally here it is the VCDX 4 program. Now some of us who were fortunate enough to complete the VCDX 3 certification and managed to pass VCAP-DCD are already a VCDX 4, but for those of you who just started the journey now is the time to start digging! In general the process hasn’t really [...]

I was reading an article by one of my Tech Marketing colleagues, Kyle Gleed and coincidentally Gabe published an article about the same topic to which Frank replied and just now Forbes Guthrie… the topic being Large Pages. I have written about this topic many times in the past and both Kyle, Gabe, Forbes and Frank mentioned the possible impact [...]

When I was enjoying some family time yesterday Eric Sloof stole my usual RVTools scoop. Nevertheless I believe it is worth publishing this as RVTools is one of the most valuable free non-vendor tools out there. Rob de Veij released a major version of RVTools. There are couple of major improvements in this version and hence the reason it took [...]

This week I received an email from one of my readers about some weird Storage IO Control behavior in their environment.  On a regular basis he would receive an error stating that an “external I/O workload has been detected on shared datastore running Storage I/O Control (SIOC) for congestion management”. He did a quick scan of his complete environment and [...]

I was going through the Planet V12n blog posts and noticed one by Maish. His question was “Do You Really Need the vMA?” and I guess that is a valid question… I guess. The main theme in his article is PowerCLI good, vMA bad. Well that might be a bit overdone on my account, but when reading this quote you [...]

It is that time of the year again… Roughly 1 year ago I blogged about the fact that I joined the VMware Cloud Practice, today I want to let you guys know that I have accepted a new job role within VMware as a Principal Architect working for the Technical Marketing team. While I have enjoyed working within the PSO/TS [...]

I received a very good question this week to which I did not have the answer, I had a feeling but that is not enough. The question was if Storage vMotion would be “throttled” by Storage IO Control. As I happened to have a couple of meetings scheduled this week with the actual engineers I asked the question and this [...]