After my initial post about Storage IO Control I received a whole bunch of questions. Instead of replying via the commenting system I decided to add them to a blog post as it would be useful for everyone to read this. Now I figured this stuff out be reading the PARDA whitepaper 6 times and by going through the log [...]

Part 1 explained the basic concepts of networking within vCD(VMware vCloud Director), Part 2 focussed on Network Pools and Part 3 focussed on a use case which was a vApp directly connected to an External routed Org Network. It took me a while to develop part 3 and I wasn’t sure if I could find the time to do another use [...]

After reading all comments each of us independently made a top-3 and after combining each of them it was quite obvious who won…. Jason C! Read his justification below, but first let me Congratulate Jason! Well done and enjoy the ride! In simple terms the list below is why I need to go to VMworld. BC6703 How To Be Successful with SRM [...]

Over the last two weeks I received multiple questions about the VMware vCloud Director (vCD) Allocation Models. vCD has three different type of allocation models which are used to allocate resources to a tenant. We will first reiterate some of the basic concepts of VMware Cloud Director before we dive into these allocation models. vCD is an abstraction layer. vCD is [...]

I was reading the Maximum vSphere book by Eric Siebert today and noticed something that I also spotted in Scott Lowe’s Mastering VMware Sphere book. Both Scott and Eric described the fact that the default amount of assigned Service Console memory for ESX has been increased from 272MB to X. I deliberately use “X” as both Eric and Scott mention [...]

Part 1 explained the basic concepts of networking within vCD(VMware vCloud Director) and Part 2 focussed on Network Pools. In the final and 3rd part we will focus on a use case and what happens on the vSphere layer with these different types of vCD networks. I will cover just a single use case for now, but this one basically covers [...]

This tool doesn’t need an introduction anymore. One of the most valuable free tools I know… RVTools. Rob found some spare time again and managed to update RVTools. It includes some bug fixes and new fields. Just download it and try it out, I am certain it will dig up something that you did not know about! Keep it up [...]