** Disclaimer: I am a VMware employee ** ** I am not affiliated with Dell, just picked them as their website is straight forward ** About a year ago I wrote an article about scaling up. I have been receiving multiple requests to update this article as with vRAM many seem to be under the impression that the world has [...]

Last week VMware officially released an official paper around Deployment Best Practices for HA. I was one of the authors of the document. Together with several people from the Technical Marketing Team we gathered all best practices that we could find, validated and simplified them to make it rock solid. I think it is a good read. It is short [...]

After the VCDX defenses Boston I had a chat with Craig Risinger, also known as 006 . We discussed some of the things we’d seen on the panels and came to the conclusion that it wouldn’t hurt to reiterate some of the tips we’ve given in the past. It’s OK to change your actual project documents. See the following points [...]

For those who are currently in progress of obtaining a VCDX certification please note that VCDX3 has come to an end. If you still want to become a VCDX 3 and already passed the Design and Enterprise exam Partner Exchange in Orlando (February 7, 2011) is your last chance. If you have passed both the VCE310 and VCD310 exams and [...]

Recently I had a discussion around Layer 2 adjacency for the vMotion(vmkernel interface) network. With that meaning that all vMotion interfaces, aka vmkernel interfaces, are required to be on the same subnet as otherwise vMotion would not function correctly. Now I remember when this used to be part of the VMware documentation but that requirement is nowhere to be found [...]

Just got noted that the Presentation of the VCDX 3 Preperation Workshop has been published. This Powerpoint presentation was given by John Arrasjid and Pang Chen during Partner Exchange and got a lot of great feedback. For everyone aiming to become a VCDX over the course of the upcoming months this is definitely a must read! VCDX Defense Preparation Preparation [...]

Looking at the VMware education website you can guess what the steps are to become a VCDX4: VCP4 → VCAP4-DCA → VCAP4-DCD → Approved Design → Successful Defense = VCDX4 Please keep in mind that I am just guessing here, and this is not an official statement. Updates on the VCDX section of the VMware website can be expected any time soon now. The [...]