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 [...]

I was preparing a post on Storage I/O Control (SIOC) when I noticed this article by Alex Bakman. Alex managed to capture the essence of SIOC in just two sentences. Without setting the shares you can simply enable Storage I/O controls on each datastore. This will prevent any one VM from monopolizing the datatore by leveling out all requests for I/O that [...]

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 some of you might now I am not only doing a session at VMworld 2010 but I am also a Lab Captain. We have been working really hard over the last couple of months to get the labs up and running for you guys. Over the last three days it has been chaos here at VMworld. Setting up, testing [...]

I was asked if I could ask my readers to fill out the following survey. Hopefully all of you will be so kind to fill it out and help VMware taking the next logical step, which ever that might be. Cloud computing gets a lot of buzz today. But when people talk about cloud, do they mean IaaS, PaaS or [...]

I am working on a “top secret” upcoming product (around Cloud of course) and because of that I am testing various things. I had never noticed this before but today I wanted to change the size of a disk within vCenter as part of the test procedure. For some weird reason this option was greyed out: I checked if there [...]

We just keep expanding… the amount of work is insane and we need help. 19280 – TS Cloud Services- Consulting Architect (Enterprise) (US) 17471 – Senior Consultant- Cloud Services (US) 17473 – Senior Engagement Project Manager – Cloud Services (US) 18016 – Cloud Solutions Architect (US) …… I guess the list never ends. Before we can fill this positions I [...]