Yes, it is that time of the year again… vSphere-land.com’s voting for the Top 25 Blogs worldwide has started again. I had the honor of placing 1st three consecutive times and of course this time I want to be first again, although this year more than ever there seems to be a lot of competition out there! My personal Top-10 [...]
In Part 1 of this series we described the different layers of networking. We already briefly spoke about Network Pools and that both a vApp Networks and Org Networks consume a segment out of a pool. In order to fully understand vCD (VMware vCloud Director) networking we will need to explain the foundation for all Cloud Internal traffic first which [...]
After my introduction on vCD last week, I thought it was time to publish an article on Networking. Networking is most likely the most complex concept of vCD(VMware vCloud Director) and can at times be very confusing. I have created three articles which will explain the concepts of networking within vCD and of course will explain on a technical level [...]
As many of you know months ago I moved from VMware Professional Services to the VMware Cloud Practice. A major part of our work revolves around VMware vCloud Director(vCD) so you can imagine that I am glad it has finally been released. This lifts the NDA and as such you can expect a whole bunch of articles in the near [...]
Over the last couple of months Frank Denneman and I have been working really hard on a secret project. Although we have spoken about it a couple of times on twitter the topic was never revealed. Months ago I was thinking about what a good topic would be for my next book. As I already wrote a lot of articles [...]
On an internal mailing list we had a very useful discussion around storage migrations when a SAN is replaced or a migration needs to take place to a different set of disks. Many customers face this at some point. The question usually is what is the best approach? SAN Replication or Storage vMotion… Both have its pros and cons I [...]
A week ago I already touched on this topic but I wanted to get a better understand for myself what could go wrong in these situations and how vSphere 4.1 solves this issue. Pre-vSphere 4.1 an issue could arise when shares had been set custom on a virtual machine. When HA fails over a virtual machine it will power-on the [...]
