I had many questions around this and was always told I was not allowed to “talk” about the Application Form and the requirements for the VCDX defense. Apparently this has changed as VMware just published it on MyLearn and it is available to anyone with a MyLearn account. Now, I want to remind everyone that this Application Form is subject [...]

Just to let you guys know… VCDX defense panels are being scheduled. The invites for Melbourne went out this week and the ones for VMworld SF will follow soon I guess. Defense interviews will be held during the following days: July 5-9, Melbourne, Australia August 23-27, San Francisco, CA October 11-15, Copenhagen, Denmark November (dates TBD), Boston, MA Completed applications [...]

I receive a lot of hits on an old article regarding aligning your VMDKs. This article doesn’t actually explain why it is important but only how to do it. The how is not actually as important in my opinion. I do however want to take the opportunity to list some of the options you have today to align your VMs VMDKs. [...]

To be honest and completely frank I really don’t have a clue. I have been reading all these so called best practices around changing the default behaviour of “1000″ to “1″ but none of these contain any justification. Just to give you an example take a look at the following guide: Configuration best practices for HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array [...]

A week ago I posted about an upcoming class titled “managing for performance“. As many of you know Scott Drummonds, VMware’s performance guru was involved in crafting this excellent course. This is VMware’s new approach for developing new training material / courses. Course material will be developed with the help of the Subject Matter Experts within the company. I was [...]

After the VCDX defenses last week in Munich and the defense sessions we had during VMware PEX I want to stress the following from my VCDX Defense blog article: Next two are role-play based. The panel is the customer and you are the architect. By asking questions, white boarding, discussions you will need to solve an issue or come to [...]

Lately I am having a lot of discussions with customers around sizing of their hosts. Especially Cisco UCS(with the 384GB option) and the upcoming Intel Xeon 5600 series with six cores per CPU takes the “Scale Up” discussion to a new level. I guess we had this discussion in the past as well when 32GB became a commodity. The question I always [...]