Reducing MTTI (Mean Time to Innocence) Using…

Reducing MTTI (Mean Time to Innocence) Using vROps Dashboards

Reducing MTTI (Mean Time to Innocence) Using…

By: Chuck Petrie, Blue Medora Based on a recent industry study done by a major analyst firm, IT departments find that an excessive amount of time is lost when trying to determine the root cause of an issue. Often times this leads to dreaded MTTI (mean time to innocence) drills as multiple IT Teams The post Reducing MTTI (Mean Time to Innocence) Using vROps Dashboards appeared first on VMware Cloud Management .


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VSAN, NSX on Cisco Nexus, vSphere Containers,…

VSAN, NSX on Cisco Nexus, vSphere Containers, NSX Future & a chat with VMware CEO – Highlights Of My Day 2 at VMworld 2016 US

VSAN, NSX on Cisco Nexus, vSphere Containers,…

In this post, I will aim tohighlight the various breakout sessions I’ve attended during the day 2at VMworld 2016 US, key items / notes / points learntand few other interesting things I was privy to during the daythat is worth… Continue Reading →


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Cannot connect to vCenter Server via vSphere…

The Virtual Unknown: Cannot connect to vCenter Server via vSphere Client – timeout

Cannot connect to vCenter Server via vSphere…

I’ve been upgrading my company’s solution centre to vSphere/vCenter 6.0 update 2 the past week and noticed that I was having issues logging into the vCenter Server Appliances I had deployed. It was a strange issuebecause I could log into … Continue reading →


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VMware PowerCLI for Mac OS X, Linux & More?…

VMware PowerCLI for Mac OS X, Linux & More? Yes, please! – virtuallyGhetto

VMware PowerCLI for Mac OS X, Linux & More?…

There were a several announcements at last weeks VMworld US Conference, but one of the most exciting piece of news in my opinion was from Alan Renouf, Product Manager for all things API/SDK/CLI at VMware. During Alan’s What’s New PowerCLI session, he announced that PowerCLI is finally coming to both Mac OS X as well as Linux! As you can imagine, the […]


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virtualguido: VMware ESXi Claim Rules unleashed

virtualguido: VMware ESXi Claim Rules unleashed

virtualguido: VMware ESXi Claim Rules unleashed

This blog article explains VMware ESXi claim rules in general and the differences between core and SATP (Storage Array Type Plugin) claim rules. In support we get a lot of questions about claim rules for several reasons. One could be performance tuning while another one could be the usage of a 3rd party multipathing plugin. With a claim rule you can pretty much define how a device of a certain vendor should behave if the the default setting won’t be sufficient. But let’s start from the…Read More


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Modifying VMware Site Recovery Manager –…

The Virtual Unknown: Modifying VMware Site Recovery Manager – Windows 2012 UAC error

Modifying VMware Site Recovery Manager –…

I first came across this issue when helping a customeruninstall Site Recovery Manager last year and wanted to blog about it but because I was pretty busy it totally slipped my mind….. until today!! I’ve been cleaning up the Solution … Continue reading →


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An Industry Roadmap: From storage to data…

An Industry Roadmap: From storage to data management #STO7903 by @xtosk – Yellow Bricks

An Industry Roadmap: From storage to data…

This is the session I have been waiting for, I had it very high on my “must see” list together with the session presented by Christian Dickmann earlier today. Not because it happened to be presented by our Storage an Availability CTO Christos Karamanolis (@XtosK on twitter), but because of the insights I expect to be […] ” An Industry Roadmap: From storage to data management #STO7903 by @xtosk ” originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com . Follow me on twitter – @DuncanYB.


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VMware Cloud Foundation – Simplify Deployment…

VMware Cloud Foundation – Simplify Deployment of SDDC and Hybrid Cloud via VMwareGuruZ

VMware Cloud Foundation – Simplify Deployment…

VMware Cloud Foundation is the unified SDDC platform that brings together VMware’s vSphere, Virtual SAN and NSX into a natively integrated stack to deliver enterprise-ready cloud infrastructure for the private and public cloud. VMware Cloud Foundation is VMware’s new unifiedSoftware-Defined Data Center (SDDC) platform for privateand public clouds. Cloud Foundation brings togetherVMware’s compute, storage, and…


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VMware’s Embrace And Extend Strategy

VMware’s Embrace And Extend Strategy – The Next Platform

VMware’s Embrace And Extend Strategy

The most successful players in the information technology space are those that can adapt, again and again, to tumultuous change. With a vast installed base and plenty of technical talent, it is unwise to count VMware out as the enterprise customers who have embraces its server virtualization tools ponder how they want to evolve to something that looks more like what a hyperscaler would build.


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Historic Dell and EMC Transaction Set to Close…

Historic Dell and EMC Transaction Set to Close on September 7, 2016

Historic Dell and EMC Transaction Set to Close…

Dell Inc. and EMC Corp. today announced that they intend to close the transaction to combine Dell and EMC on Wednesday, September 7, 2016. Dell Technologies, the name of the new combined company, will begin operating immediately following the close of the transaction.


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VMware ‘Cloud Foundation’ integrates virtual…

Computerworld Singapore – VMware ‘Cloud Foundation’ integrates virtual compute, network and storage systems

VMware ‘Cloud Foundation’ integrates virtual…

At VMWorld this week the virtualization giant is announcing a new integrated system for building private clouds made up of the company’s virtualized compute, network and storage products packaged together with a new management software.


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Broadwell ESXi 6.0 Exception 14 PSOD and Lenovo…

Broadwell ESXi 6.0 Exception 14 PSOD and Lenovo support fail – The Virtualist

Broadwell ESXi 6.0 Exception 14 PSOD and Lenovo…

You may already have heard about known issue with Intel Broadwell Family CPUs (Intel Xeon CPU E5-26xx v4 CPUs) where you can hit Exception 14 PSOD if you are running older microcode. If not, you can read about it in kb2146388 From there you can clearly see you need to … Continue reading


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